Activism from the Margins: Filipino Marriage Migrants in Australia

Global migration of Filipinos is highly gendered. Of the estimated 8,726,520 Filipinos living overseas as of December 2007, more than half were women. Their migration trajectories reflect the restructuring of the international economy, which exacts demand for cheap labor in the service industry, mai...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Frontiers (Boulder) 2009-09, Vol.30 (3), p.142-168
1. Verfasser:	Bonifacio, Glenda Lynna Anne Tibe
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Activism Adulthood. Marriage Australia Citizenship Citizenship status Communities Domestic workers Ethnology Family. Family relations Feminism Filipinos Globalization History Human ecology, environment Human migration Human settlements Labor migration Life cycle an individual status Marriage Migrant communities Migrants Migrations Morphological source materials Organization formation Physical anthropology, ethnobiology Political activity Political issue Political migration Service industries Social structure and social relations Societies, clubs, etc Violence against women Woman status Women Women immigrants Women's associations Women's organizations Women's rights
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Zusammenfassung:	Global migration of Filipinos is highly gendered. Of the estimated 8,726,520 Filipinos living overseas as of December 2007, more than half were women. Their migration trajectories reflect the restructuring of the international economy, which exacts demand for cheap labor in the service industry, mainly as nurses, nannies, and domestic workers, otherwise known as the "servants of globalization." These servants are, in the words of Ninotchka Rosca, the "shameful export" of the Philippines.
ISSN:	0160-9009 1536-0334 1536-0334
DOI:	10.1353/fro.2009.a370521