Detalles del documento

Imprima y guarde

Artículo de periódico

MAID OR MADAM? Filipina Migrant Workers and the Continuity of Domestic Labor

Fecha

2003

Autores

Pei-Chia Lan

Resumen

This article examines the complexity of feminized domestic labor in the context of global migration. I view unpaid household labor and paid domestic work not as dichotomous categories but as structural continuities across the public and private spheres. Based on a qualitative study of Filipina migrant domestic workers in Taiwan, I demonstrate how women travel through the maid/madam boundary-- housewives in home countries become breadwinners by doing domestic work overseas, and foreign maids turn into foreign brides. While migrant women sell their domestic labor in the market, they remain burdened with gendered responsibilities in their own families. Their simultaneous occupancy of paid and unpaid domestic labor is segmented into distinct spatial settings. I underscore women's agency by presenting how they articulate their paid and unpaid domestic labor and bargain with the monetary and emotional value of their labor

Journal title

Gender and Society

Volumen

17

Número

2

Page numbers

187-208

Editor

Sage Publications, Inc.

Archivos adjuntos

Conexiones

Palabras clave

Domestic Workers, Philippine, Taiwan

Los sectores económicos

Occupations in services - Domestic work

Tipos de contenido

Estadísticas sobre el trabajo y las condiciones de vida

Los grupos destinatarios

Legisladores, Conciencia Pública, Los investigadores, Los sindicatos, y ONG / grupos comunitarios / redes de solidaridad

Relevancia geográfica

Filipinas y Taiwan

Esferas de la actividad

Estudios en Género y Sexualidad

Idiomas

Inglés