Countertopographies of Migrant Women: Transnational Families, Space, and Labor as Solidarity

Through our analysis of the domestic workers' lives in New York City and Hong Kong, we explore how Filipina migrants make transnational connections, how these connections operate, and when these connections act as a basis for transnational mobilization. We find that, although Filipina migrant w...

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Published in:Working USA 2014-09, Vol.17 (3), p.357-372
Main Authors: Francisco, Valerie, Rodriguez, Robyn Magalit
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activism
Borders
Domestic service
Economic conditions
Families & family life
Family
Hong Kong, China
Labor
Labor policy
Living conditions
Location
Migrant workers
Migrants
Mobilization
New York, New York
Transnationalism
Women
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Summary:Through our analysis of the domestic workers' lives in New York City and Hong Kong, we explore how Filipina migrants make transnational connections, how these connections operate, and when these connections act as a basis for transnational mobilization. We find that, although Filipina migrant workers experience very different working and living conditions, they similarly engage in transnational solidarity organizing with and for one another across their migrant locations. Further, the subjectivities through which they engage in cross‐border activism can take parallel forms. We find that migrant women's experiences of gendered social reproductive labor, both paid and unpaid, are salient in shaping their political subjectivities, and they connect these experiences to a critique of their “home” state.
ISSN:1089-7011
1743-4580
2471-4607
DOI:10.1111/wusa.12119