Book description
Philippines is the world’s biggest exporter of labour - both male and female – and their remittances have helped to keep afloat the Philippines economy for the past three decades. In the first 11 months of 2009 remittances from 9 million Filipinos working abroad amounted to USD 15.8 billion, making…
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This book is a collection of many life stories of Filipino migrant domestic workers, mostly in Singapore. Since the authors of the accounts use pseudonyms, they are all insightful revelations of how these women cope with the issues of loneliness and separation from families.
The most interesting revelation is that some of these women have affairs (which they call ‘one day stands’ since they only have a day off and not the whole 24 hours) with South Asian men. I was surprised by this radical act—radical because Filipino constructions of the feminine idealise the ‘chaste wife’, and while men’s infidelity…
From Mina's list on Filipino migration from migrants themselves.
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