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A Clean Bill of Health: Filipinas as Domestic Workers in Singapore

Petsa

2004

May-akda

Avanti Iyer

Buod

This paper describes foreign domestic workers' (FDWs) vulnerability in Singapore. Due to the lack of regulatory laws mandating employers to pay health care costs & FDW ineligibility for national plans given their transient contract labor status, FDWs depend on employer generosity to provide for this need. Presently, the state's interest only includes particular aspects of FDW "health." The argument here is that the discourse of perceiving FDWs as sexual "bodies" & transmitters of other infectious diseases is a metaphor for how the state perceives them -- useful to Singapore for economic gains as long as they do not bring on costs. 3 Appendixes, 41 References. Adapted from the source document.

Journal title

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal

Dami

13

Numero

1

Page numbers

11-38

Kalakip

Connections

Pang-ekonomiyang sektor

Occupations in services - Domestic work

Mga Uri ng Nilalaman

Statistics on work and life conditions

Target na mga grupo

Mananaliksik

Geographical kaugnayan

Pilipinas

Spheres ng aktibidad

Health Sciences and Karapatan

Wika

Ingles