Journal Articles

1. Withers, M. (2017). Accumulation by Subordination: Migration-Underdevelopment in the Open Economy. Polity. 7 (2).
   

Chapters

1. Withers, M. (2019). Sri Lanka’s Remittance Economy: A Multiscalar Analysis of Migration-Underdevelopment. Routledge.
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2. Withers, M. (2017). Sri Lanka: Between Working Realities and Gendered Fictions. In M. Ford, M. Baird and E. Hill (Eds), Women, Work and Care in the Asia-Pacific. New York: Routledge.
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3. Withers, M. (2014). Reimagining Dependency: an Ode to Unpopular Economics. In V. Gunasekara and R. Alles (Eds), You May Say I’m a Dreamer, (pp. 71-77). Colombo: Centre for Poverty Analysis.
   

Academic Conferences

1. Withers, M. and N. Pipper (2015), "Uneven Migration and the Shortcomings of ’Migrant Entrepreneurship’ in Sri Lanka", Australasian Aid Conference, Australian National University.
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2. Withers, M (2014) "Place, Practice and Pretence: A Topography of Sri Lankan Labour Migration", in Sri Lanka Otherwise? Resituating Topography and Temporality, American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies Conference, Stanford University, USA
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3. Withers, M (2013) Patriarchy, Labour Markets and Development: Contesting the Sexual Division of Labour in Sri Lanka, International Centre for Women’s Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka
   

Other publications

1. Piper, N., Rosewarne, S. and Withers, M. (2016). Redefining a Rights-based Approach in the Context of Temporary Labour Migration in Asia. UNRISD Working Paper Series.
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2. Withers, M. (2014). A Continuum of Ethnic Violence in Sri Lanka: Aluthgama and the Buddhist War Machine. The Sydney Globalist.
   

3. Withers, M. (2014). Reimagining Dependency: An Ode to Unpopular Economics. Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka).
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