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Maid or madam? Filipina migrant workers and the continuity of domestic labor

Petsa

2003

May-akda

P. C. Lan

Buod

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. l 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. [References: 42]

Journal title

Gender & Society

Dami

17

Connections

Pang-ekonomiyang sektor

Occupations in services - Domestic work and Home child care providers

Target na mga grupo

Mananaliksik

Geographical kaugnayan

Pilipinas and Taiwan

Spheres ng aktibidad

Pag-aaral sa Kasarian at iyag

Wika

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