the woman posing with a poster of the basic six food groups
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THE WOMAN POSING WITH A POSTER OF THE BASIC SIX FOOD GROUPS. ANALYZING GENDER AND MIGRATION THROUGH VISUAL TEXTS. OUTLINE. THE NEO-COLONIAL AND GLOBALIZED BODY DOMESTIC WORKERS MAIL-ORDER BRIDES ENTERTAINERS. STUDY APPROACH. Look and analyze images Study data - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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THE WOMAN POSING WITH A POSTER OF THE BASIC SIX
FOOD GROUPS
ANALYZING GENDER AND MIGRATION THROUGH VISUAL
TEXTS
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OUTLINE
• THE NEO-COLONIAL AND GLOBALIZED BODY
• DOMESTIC WORKERS
• MAIL-ORDER BRIDES
• ENTERTAINERS
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STUDY APPROACH
• Look and analyze images
• Study data
• Understand how these migrants are “constructed”
• How can we say that these bodies are globalized neo-colonial bodies?
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THE NEO-COLONIAL AND GLOBALIZED BODY
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APPENDIX, PAGE 1
APPENDIX, PAGE 1
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Arasula Mina, Pertama Agency
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Mary Jane Ramos
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Marissa Pao, Maids Online, Lebanon
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Elma Nisperos
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Maids.com
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Maplemaids.com
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Housewarmers.com
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Ourmaids,com
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DEFINING REPRODUCTIVE LABOR (from Parrenas)
• Labor needed to sustain the productive labor force;
• Household chores
• Care of elderly, adults and youth
• Socialization of children
• Maintenance of social ties in the family
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STUDYING REPRODUCTIVE LABOR
We take into account:
Racial Division
Globalization
Feminization of labor
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INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER OF CARETAKING
• Three-tier transfer of reproductive labor
• Class privileged women hire Filipina domestic workers
• Filipina domestic workers hire the services of poorer women
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RACIAL DIVISION OF REPRODUCTIVE LABOR
(NAKANO)
• Hierarchichal and interdependent relationship
• Interlocks the race and class status of women
• … in its distribution in the formal and informal labor market
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GLOBALIZATION
• Movement of manufacturing production to newly industrialized countries
• Multinational corporations maintain central operations in new economic centers
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Italy and Los Angeles
• Average day worker US$1,229
• Caregivers $778/mth• Some pay $5000 to
enter Italy w/o visa
• Mainly live in workers -- $350 a week
• Caregivers $425/week
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CONTRADICTIONS IN THE MIDDLE
• Conflicting class mobility• Increase and decrease in class status• Pain of family separation -- loss, guilt and
loneliness• Caring for someone else’s family• The Patriarchal nuclear household at both
ends
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HONG KONG
• 1995 -- 120,000 “foreign domestic workers” or FDF from the Philippines out of a total 150,000
• Majority are single
• 25-35
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HONG KONG -- COMPARISONS
• Filipinas are compared to:• Muijai -- a type of bondservant;
usually “bought” when they are 8 years old
• Sohei -- a type of spinster amah; paid to do housework; 1920s; collapse of silk industry
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HONG KONG --MISCONCEPTIONS
• Filipinas are perceived to:• Exhibit a lack of discipline and dedication• Be deserving of the harsh discipline and
punishment they receive• Uniquely dangerous and morally suspect
compared to the idealized Chinese DW• Problem stems at being “foreign.”
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HONG KONG -- HISTORY
• 1970s -- a few hundreds working for expats
• 1980s -- many Chinese women started working; young and middle aged families wanted Filipina maids with “Western” culture
• 1980s -- legislation was passed -- short-term contracts
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HONG KONG -- employers’ view
• Relationship was more professional than with Chinese maids
• Filipinas came to be viewed as “public nuisance”
• Filipinas “just don’t act like servants.”
• Chastity, Sexuality and Familial Devotion
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HONG KONG ---SEXUALITY
• Sexuality and Clothing -- too stylish, colorful, provocative, “cheap”
• Lack of commitment to families indicating willingness to do anything for money
• Moral position in the social system is poorly articulated and therefore threatens Hong Kong’s moral order
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HONG KONG -- CLASS IDENTITY
• Ambiguity
• High educational attainment
• Uniforms, dress codes, curfews and rules dictate spatial boundaries -- delineate and reinforce social distinctions
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HONG KONG -- JEALOUSY AND PHYSICAL ABUSE
• 7th century Tang Encyclopdia Yiwen leiju, cites jealous women in history
• In history and literature, jealousy provoked wives to punish their husbands or rivals
• 1993 -- 18months -- 293 complaints of maltreatment
• Women beaten, slapped, pinched and burned
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CANADA
• Have to live in homes of employers for a minimum of two years out of a three-year period;
• Legally classified as temporary workers, subject to deportation upon termination of contracted labor as live-in domestics
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CANADA -- CONTRADICTIONS
• United Nations Human Development Index (1990) lists Canada as the “best country in the world to live.”
• Yet, social services, rights of immigrants and minorities, working women’s access to public health care has been in continual decline
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CANADA -- history of domestic labor
• From 1955 to mid-1970s -- Carribean women
• 1980s --recruitment from the Philippines to undercut the organizing campaigns of the Carribean women
• 1981 -- Foreign Domestic Movement policy
• 1992 --est. of Live-in Caregiver Program
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FILIPINAS IN CANADA
• 14 out of 25 came from working in the Middle East, Asia and Europe;
• Considered in a racist stereotype to be “good servants”
• Single greatest feature of the domestic worker’s ability to negotiate is the ability to live out
• 18 of 25 said very important to send money
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CANADA SPACES
• 16 of 24 had a basement room
• 16 of 23 had their own telephone
• 18 of 25 had no locks in their doors
• 16 of 23 wanted changes in the domestic requirement
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CANADA -- GOALS
• Sending money home (10 of 20)• Bringing family to Canada (6 of
20)• Educating their children.• Improving their standard of living• Gaining a better job
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NANNIES DIRECT
• My dear fellow Filipino, Working in Canada is much easier. I have freedom and respect as a person…I am very thankful to Nannies Direct. Jennifer
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SIKLAB CAMPAIGN
• National alliance of Filipino migrant workers
• Rally, January 13, 2006• Deliver of over 1000 signed petitions
calling for a stop to deportations• Reasons for non-completion of 2 years --
cancer, pregnancy, forced by abusive husband
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MIGRANT ORGANIZING IN CANADA
Areas of Concern:
Economic marginalization
Systematic Racism
Sectoral Issues
Youth
2003 alone -- 1,811 caregivers entered
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TAIWAN
• 1990s -- Taiwan started receiving foreign domestic workers
• 110,000, 90% of whom are from the Philippines and Indonesia
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TAIWAN (Lan, 2003)
• Structural continuity between unpaid household labor and paid domestic work;
• Migrant women become transnational breadwinners but remain burdened by gendered duties;
• Bargaining with the interchange between monetary value and emotional value
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TAIWAN -- CHOICES
• Gainful domestic work
• Being unpaid housewives
• International marriages to escape the status of being an “old maid.”
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