Using place lens : the construction of diasporic identity and a "home away from home" by foreign domestic workers in Singapore.

• Main Author: Tan, Dilys Yi Fang.
• Other Authors: Caroline Pluss
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/35266
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This research paper investigates how Foreign Domestic Workers (FDWs) from the Philippines use space to represent and express their identities as members of a diaspora who maintain ties transnationally with their homeland. It studies the process of place-making by looking at how FDWs form communities...