Why Mourning Matters: The Politics of Grief in Southeast Asian Narratives of Women's Migration

• Main Author: Piocos, Carlos M., III
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Filipina and Indonesian Domestic Workers; gendered moral hierarchies; intersectionality; melodrama; sacrifice; transnational feminist activism; work of mourning
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss33/41; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1833/viewcontent/KK_2033_2C_202019_2C_20_26_2034_2C_202020_2042_20Monograph_20__20Piocos_20III.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This paper examines how migrant women’s lives are politicized through the work of mourning by analyzing how grieving over their deaths becomes a way of also claiming accountability from a nation-state that deploys its citizen-breadwinners. I employ critical discussions on mourning by Vicente Rafael,...