Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration, and Domestic Work

TLDR

Migrant Filipina domestic workers in Rome and Los Angeles experience dislocations that reflect the Philippines’ labor outflow, the international division of reproductive labor, and transnational family dynamics, highlighting contradictory class mobility within globalized domestic work. The study finds that these workers experience a dislocation of nonbelonging, illustrating parallel lives across different settings as servants of globalization. Supplementary materials include sample characteristics, Appendix B, tables, notes, bibliography, and index.

Abstract

Introduction: migrant Filipina domestic workers in Rome and Los Angeles 1. The dislocations of migrant Filipina domestic workers 2. The Philippines and the outflow of labor 3. The international division of reproductive labor 4. The transnational family: a postindustrial household structure with preindustrial values 5. Intergenerational and gender relations in transnational families 6. Contradictory class mobility: the politics of domestic work in globalization 7. The dislocation of nonbelonging: domestic workers in the Filipina migrant communities of Rome and Los Angeles Conclusion: servants of globalization: different settings, parallel lives Conclusions: servants of globalization: different settings, parallel lives Characteristics of the samples Appendix B. Tables Notes bibliography Index.