A study on the information seeking behaviour of Singapore-based Filipino domestic workers

• Main Authors: Sibal, Hannah Trinity, Foo, Schubert
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: domestic workers; Filipino migrants; digital literacy; information literacy; information seeking; information sources; information behaviour; Singapore
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/80644; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40635
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This research examines the information seeking and use behaviour of Filipino domestic workers (FDWs) in Singapore, who collectively make up around 40% of about 173,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in this city state. It is based on the premise that low-paid migrants are generally typecast as ‘in...