Detalles del documento

Imprima y guarde

Artículo de periódico

A Clean Bill of Health: Filipinas as Domestic Workers in Singapore

Fecha

2004

Autores

Avanti Iyer

Resumen

This paper describes foreign domestic workers' (FDWs) vulnerability in Singapore. Due to the lack of regulatory laws mandating employers to pay health care costs & FDW ineligibility for national plans given their transient contract labor status, FDWs depend on employer generosity to provide for this need. Presently, the state's interest only includes particular aspects of FDW "health." The argument here is that the discourse of perceiving FDWs as sexual "bodies" & transmitters of other infectious diseases is a metaphor for how the state perceives them -- useful to Singapore for economic gains as long as they do not bring on costs. 3 Appendixes, 41 References. Adapted from the source document.

Journal title

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal

Volumen

13

Número

1

Page numbers

11-38

Archivos adjuntos

Conexiones

Los sectores económicos

Occupations in services - Domestic work

Tipos de contenido

Estadísticas sobre el trabajo y las condiciones de vida

Los grupos destinatarios

Los investigadores

Relevancia geográfica

Filipinas

Esferas de la actividad

Ciencias de la Salud y Derecho

Idiomas

Inglés