To flee, or not to flee : intersections of paid domestic work and insurgency in Central Visayas

• Main Author: ALFILER, CHERIE AUDREY
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2017
• Subjects: Household employees > Philippines > Bohol; Household employees > Social aspects; Women household employees; Sitio Sibol(Bohol,Philippines) > Social life and customs.
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/theses-dissertations/141; http://rizalls.lib.admu.edu.ph/#section=resource&resourceid=1191638470&currentIndex=0&view=fullDetailsDetailsTab
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Since the 1970s, a huge segment of the Bohol population, including the maids and other residents of Sitio Sibol, has been forced to seek employment outside the province. Past studies of domestic work often reach a conclusion tying paid household work and poverty as the only possible explanation for...