Class mobility and social status in paid domestic work: Filipina local and transnational domestics

• Main Author: Arnado, Janet M.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2002
• Subjects: Foreign workers, Filipino; Social status > Philippines; Transnationalism; Sociology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/11986
• Institution: De La Salle University

Using fieldwork data from the Philippines, this paper examines whether domestic service is a dead end or a stepping-stone toward a more comfortable life. It then moves away from this dichotomous conception and presents a three-pronged argument regarding class mobility and social status of Filipino d...