Détails du document

Impression et sauvegarde

Article de journal

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

Date

2004

Auteurs

Avanti Iyer

Résumé

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

Volume

13

Numéro

1

Page numbers

11-38

Fichiers joints

Liens

Secteurs économiques

Occupations in services - Domestic work

Types de contenu

Statistics on work and life conditions

Groupes cibles

Chercheurs

Pertinence géographique

Philippines

Sphères d’activité

Sciences de la santé et Droit

Langues

Anglais