Les écoles du care aux Philippines. Le devenir travailleuse domestique au prisme de l'altérité

Julien Debonneville

Revue Tiers-Monde, 2014, vol. n° 217, issue 1, 61-78

Abstract: While there has been extensive research focusing mainly on the demand for domestic workers overseas, little research has been done on the ?supply-side? in the Philippines. This article aims to fill this gap, by emphasizing how Filipina domestic workers bound for various countries in the global south are ?produced? through labor-brokering practices in the Philippines. More specifically, it examines the techniques and procedures of the Philippine state and agencies to recruit, train and promote a certain idea of what it means to be a ?Filipina domestic worker?. It also points out how social and symbolic boundaries produce otherness through training and selection processes. Finally, it emphasizes the historical dynamics underlying the production of otherness and the intersectionality of power relationship as sex, class, race.

Keywords: Migrations; domestic work; intersectionality; otherness; docility; Philippines (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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