Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2007

Publication Title

Migration Letters

Volume

4

Issue

1

First Page

15

Last Page

27

ISSN

1741-8992

DOI

https://doi.org/10.33182/ml.v4i1.207

Keywords

Domestic workers, Filipino contract workers, the Gulf Crisis, Kuwait, Philippines

Abstract

This paper presents Filipino economic history as a way to provide a brief background to the events that precipitated one Filipino woman’s migration to the Middle East. Her story is not rare but shares in common patterns with the stories of many other female contract workers, especially domestic workers. It chronicles government policies and business practices that profit from their remittances. It is being retold here so that the invisible world of female contract workers and, more often than not, the poor conditions under which they live and labour, might be better understood.

Rights

This article originally published as Nadeau, K. (2007). A maid in servitude: Filipino domestic workers in the Middle East. Migration Letters, 4(1), 15-27. https://doi.org/10.33182/ml.v4i1.207

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