At home in public: Intimacy and belonging among Filipina and Indonesian migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong in Ani Ema Susanti's Effort for love (2008) and Moira Zoitl's Exchange square (2007)

• Main Author: Piocos, Carlos M.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2019
• Subjects: Foreign workers, Filipino > Hong Kong > Social conditions; Foreign workers, Indonesian > Hon Kong > Social conditions; Women household employees > Hong Kong > Social conditions; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/2161
• Institution: De La Salle University

This article discusses how Filipina and Indonesian domestic workers in Hong Kong claim and transform transnational sites as portrayed in Ani Ema Susanti's 2008 short documentary film Mengusahakan Cinta [Effort for Love] and Moira Zoitl's documentary video series Exchange Square (2007). The...