At home with strangers: Social exclusion and intimate labor in Anthony Chen’s Ilo Ilo (2013)

• Main Author: Piocos, Carlos M., III
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2019
• Subjects: Anthony Chen. Ilo ilo; Foreign workers, Filipino—Singapore—Social conditions—In motion pictures; Social isolation—Singapore; Household employees—Singapore—Social conditions—In motion pictures; Arts and Humanities
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/969; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/faculty_research/article/1968/type/native/viewcontent
• Institution: De La Salle University

In Singapore, many middle-class families employ foreign domestic workers (FDWs) to take on care and domestic work. In this setup, female FDWs need to be “a part of the family” and “feel at home” to better perform and render intimate labor, but they are structurally displaced and prevented from being...