Kababayan : faces of Filipinas in Singapore.

• Main Authors: Kong, Yen Lin., Ling, Nuria Xinyi.
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Journalism::Reporting on community
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/38739
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Exploited, vulnerable and lonely. These are the dominant images of Filipino women in Singapore’s public consciousness, constructed through stories of abuse and suffering of foreign domestic helpers in the mainstream media. Other than this, little is known about the expanding diaspora of close to 160...