Intermittent Departures, Returns, and the Incremental Acts of the Everyday: Paid Domestic Work and Insurgency in Sitio Sibol, Bohol

• Main Author: Alfiler, Cherie Audrey
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2018
• Subjects: maids; local domestic work; migration; labor enskillment; rural community; insurgency
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/socialtransformations/vol6/iss2/3; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/socialtransformations/article/1096/viewcontent/ST_206.2_203_20Article_20__20ALFILER.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Our understanding of maids and their condition is confined within the current discourse of domestic labor exploitation and its general assumptions. This study presents an expansion of the discussion as experienced by residents of Sitio Sibol, Bohol including past experiences of NPA (New People’s Arm...