SOC214H1 Chapter : women, migration and domestic work
Document Summary
Servants of globalization: women, migration and domestic work. There are approximately 6. 5 million filipino/a migrant workers and over half are women. Of these women, two-thirds are employed as domestic workers: for the most part, these women are highly educated, having earned trade school diplomas and college degrees. 46 filipina women in rome and 26 filipina women in los angeles, all working as domestic caregivers. More than half are married and have young children they have left in the. Philippines: transnational families, an interesting artefact of modern globalized labour movements. Transnational families are families whose core members are located in at least two different nation-states (p. 80). In parrenas" study, 77% of the respondents in rome and 89% of those in los angeles had spouses and children living in the philippines. In the macro-level analysis, she examines the global impact of domestic labourers. Italy, are illegal migrants, which makes them vulnerable to exploitation by unscrupulous recruitment agencies.
