Globalization and Migration: Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong as case study

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Globalization and Migration

Does it affect identity?Filipino domestic workers

in Hong KongA case study


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Overview of presentation

Brief description of identity

Our argument

Our case study What we did

Our findings What we discovered

Conclusion


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Our Argument:

Globalization

DOES affect individuals identity

Findings from our research bothreadings and interviews suggest

that the elements of the Filipinohousemaids identity which have

changed are:


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Our Argument:Globalization DOES affect individuals identity

Their perceptions of themselves and otherpeoples perceptions of them

Their expectations of themselves in Homecountry and abroad

Their freedoms, opportunities & pressures

Their status as an overseas worker bothhere and on their return


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Perceptions of themselvesand other peoples perceptions

of themDisadvantages of working in Hong Hong

Discrimination

Far from family

All factors

Quals irrellivant


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Perceptions of themselves andother peoples perceptions of them

Why do when they have high educationalattainment do they work as a maids?

By 1956, the Philippines had the secondhighest number of students per 100000

population in the world


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Discrimination and abuseSome Pilipino maids are abused by theiremployers

Also:

Language

Skin colour

NationalityJob

Culture


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Make ends meet

Free trade

Globalization of neoliberalism


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Domestic (Philippines)

government Job opportunity

Abroad (Hong Kong)

Wage

Working condition


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The expectation of Filipino in abroad

Better pay

Better working condition

Better job prospects

other


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export large amount of labor

to work abroad

remittance flows

become the

second-largestsource

Lack of job

opportunity


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Contributing much more to the

family and their own life


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changed

the

identity

neoliberal

Domestic

Abroad


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How many Filipinos in HK view

themselves as heroes?

yes

no

unsure


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Why do the Filipinos in HKview themselves as heroes?

the government describes overseas workers

as heroes of the nation. to further

encourage the outflow of contract workers

all Filipinos are encouraged to take pride in

these heroes.


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Why do the Filipinos in HK viewthemselves as heroes?

forced migrants(maid trade)

lack of opportunityin the Philippines

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government promotion of migration (the government is dependent on remittance)


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Why do the Filipinos in HK viewthemselves as heroes?

Other reasons:

1.Contribute more to family, even under verydangerous conditions.

2.Government depend onsafety imperative for

even a modicum of

legitimacy.3.Positive effect on wages4.culture


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Affects on migrant Filipino

cultural identity

Did they feel that any elements of

their culture had changed sincebeing inHong Kong?

Please note: 10 of the 25 interviewees answered this openanswer question and there may be more than one answer of an

interviewee


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Interview results

liberated

open minded

improving life standard

improving personality

exposing to the society

working harder


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What the answers indicate:Positives:

Democracy/Freedoms:

Increasing the senses of protecting their rights andabidance by law

Opportunities:

Improving life standard

Broaden their horizon

Exposing to the new community


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What the answers indicate

Negatives:

Physical and Psychological pressure:

The inversion of the private-public border

Staying in the intimate space of anothers

household for a long time, usually just rest onSunday

Estrangement from family members


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Acculturation?

Few Filipino restaurants in HK, they eatmore Chinese food

They speak and communicate fluently inEnglish, usually just know a fewCantonese phrases

They identify themselves more onpolitical identity (nationality) as Filipino


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ConclusionCultural level

National

Character

Individual Level

Social LevelPsychological

level

Majority culture

Identitychanges

Gender

roles

Family

values

employment

Attitudes

stress

Social

affiliationsGenerational

status


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References

Constable, N (1997) Maid to order in Hong Kong:

stories of Filipina workers

Tomlinson, J (2000) Globalization and cultural

identity. In Held & McGrew Eds. The Global

Transformations Reader

Unknown, Gender, Class and the transnational

politics of solidarity

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