SOC275H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Care Work
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Converging lives, diverging citizenship: katherine & rachel as filipina migrants to south korea, both graduated from highschool, did not go to college, were with their highschool sweethearts and then became single mothers the fathers left, heard about the opportunity, wanted to take it to prosper, katherine becomes, factory, undocumented, industrial training; trainees (did not want to give them the same as the employees, miserable life, was not payed promised monthly wage, with vibrant ethnic community and claims to labor rights, sense of life, sense of labor rights, labor lawyer, get passport and unpaid salary back; even without a stable legal status, rachel becomes, club hostess with legal visa, entertainer visa, became a hostess did have a legal visa, similar to katherines previous owner, unlike katherine, rachel did not have anyone to rely on, did not have the type of social network to mobilize and go somewhere else, without labor protections and without community.
