Détails du document

Impression et sauvegarde

Article de journal

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

Date

2003

Auteurs

Pei-Chia Lan

Résumé

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

Volume

17

Numéro

2

Page numbers

187-208

Éditeur

Sage Publications, Inc.

Fichiers joints

Liens

Mots-clés

Domestic Workers, Philippine, Taiwan

Secteurs économiques

Occupations in services - Domestic work

Types de contenu

Statistics on work and life conditions

Groupes cibles

Législateurs, Sensibilisation du public, Chercheurs, Syndicats et ONG/groupes communautaires/réseaux de solidarité

Pertinence géographique

Philippines et Taiwan

Sphères d’activité

Études en genre et sexualité

Langues

Anglais