Foreign Domestic Workers in Singapore
- 1 March 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Asian and Pacific Migration Journal
- Vol. 5 (1) , 117-138
- https://doi.org/10.1177/011719689600500106
Abstract
This paper discusses the regulatory and economic context of Filipina migration into domestic waged labor in Singapore. It places this migration in the history of female rural-urban migration as well as the history of domestic labor in Singapore. Finally, it raises the question as to why domestic waged labor has persisted in the global capitalist economy.Keywords
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