Maid to Order in Hong Kong

Constable, Nicole

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“…La explotación de género y los abusos en contra de la población trabajadora doméstica de Indonesia han sido ampliamente documentados (Constable 2007 . Aunque las experiencias de migración dependen en general del azar, la confianza de un migrante, su personalidad y sus habilidades, muchas mujeres corren el riesgo de quedar atrapadas en formas de servidumbre por deudas a reclutadores informales, agencias de empleo o empleadores.…”

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Migrantes como víctimas y héroes nacionales: cuestionando la migración como camino al desarrollo en Indonesia

Chan

2017

Rev.estud.soc.

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Migrantes como víctimas y héroes nacionales: cuestionando la migración como camino al desarrollo en Indonesia

Chan

2017

Rev.estud.soc.

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“…Many Filipina women who became entertainers in Japan during the 1980s and 1990s did not have postsecondary educations and thus the option of going abroad as nurses, caregivers, or domestic helpers. These jobs often required a higher level of education and thus attracted women from middle‐class backgrounds (Constable 1997; Parreñas 2001). Instead, these women took a gamble, hoping that their experiences in Japan would end in success, not shame or tragedy.…”

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“…In this essay, I focus on running away as one means through which transnational migrants negotiate the disappointing gaps that emerge between their dreams and expectations for their lives abroad and the demands and constraints that they experience in them. Scholars have stressed that members of migrant and immigrant groups do not passively assimilate to their communities of settlement but actively negotiate the demands and promises of them (Basch et al 1994; Constable 1997, 1999; Espiritu 2003; Gilroy 1993; Linger 2001; Manalansan 2003; Ong 2003; Parreñas 2001; Tsuda 2003). Yet most of these studies focus on the individual or collective actions migrants take as they deal with their ambivalences toward their lives abroad 3 .…”

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RUNAWAY STORIES: The Underground Micromovements of FilipinaOyomesanin Rural Japan

Faier

2008

Cultural Anthropology

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During fieldwork among Filipina migrants married to Japanese men in rural Nagano, stories about Filipina women who had “run away” from Japanese husbands and families in the region regularly surfaced in casual conversations. This essay focuses on both running away and stories about it as interconnected means through which these women negotiated their dissatisfactions with their lives abroad. I suggest that through such practices, these women's dissatisfactions assumed a “runaway agency” that created unsettling and, sometimes, unexpected social effects. First, insofar as running away involved “underground micromovements,” it enabled Filipina women to craft spaces in Japan outside the domestic boundaries of both the home and the nation. These “extradomestic spaces” offered at once hopeful and dangerous possibilities for building alternative lives in Japan. Second, as Filipina women who remained in rural Nagano gossiped about those who had run away, they pressured some Filipina wives into staying while encouraging others to leave. Third, running away became an unexpected leveraging tool through which some Filipina women negotiated the conditions of their domestic situations to unpredictable effect.

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“…Constable, 1995Constable, , 1997McKay, 2005;Parrenas, 2001Parrenas, , 2005aParrenas, , 2005bPingol, 2001) including their use of new media. There has been a particular focus upon texting (Pertierra, 2002(Pertierra, , 2005, for which the Philippines is known as the most prolific texting country in the world.…”

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Should You Accept a Friends Request From Your Mother? And Other Filipino Dilemmas

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Madianou²

2012

International Review of Social Research

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This paper uses the concept of `cutting the network' derived from the work of Marilyn Strathern to examine the relationship between two kinds of social network, that of kinship and the system of friends constructed on social networking sites. Specifically the material comes from a study of Filipina domestic workers and nurses in the UK and their relationship to their left behind children in the Philippines. A bilateral system of kinship can lead to a proliferation of relatives, while the use of the Friendster social networking site can lead to a proliferation of friends. It is when these two systems clash following the request by one's mother to become a friend that the constraints and problems posed by both systems comes into view. Cases show that it is possible to use social networking sites to help mothers become close friends for their absent children, but more commonly the increasing presence of actual mothers through new media disrupts the relationships that children had developed for themselves to a idealised projection of motherhood.

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Maid to Order in Hong Kong

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Migrantes como víctimas y héroes nacionales: cuestionando la migración como camino al desarrollo en Indonesia

Migrantes como víctimas y héroes nacionales: cuestionando la migración como camino al desarrollo en Indonesia

RUNAWAY STORIES: The Underground Micromovements of FilipinaOyomesanin Rural Japan

Should You Accept a Friends Request From Your Mother? And Other Filipino Dilemmas

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