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Liebelt, Claudia:
On Sentimental Orientalists, Christian Zionists, and "Working Class Cosmopolitans" : Filipina Domestic Workers' Journeys to Israel and Beyond.
In:
Constable, Nicole (Hrsg.). Migrant Workers in Asia : Distant Divides, Intimate Connections. -
New York
: Routledge
,
2010
. - pp. 13-26
ISBN 978-0-415-57814-1
Abstract in another language
Within a global gendered economy based on an international division of labor, Filipina migrants have become nannies, maids, and caregivers in affluent homes in numerous Asian and Middle Eastern countries. Filipina migrants who seek employment as domestic workers abroad have been described as “classical” trans- migrants who keep in touch with family members back home and commute between their countries of origin and their destinations. In this article — based on ethnographic research in Israel, Palestine, and the Philippines between 2003 and 2008 — the author argues that Filipina migrants are transnational in a much broader sense than commonly discussed in studies on migration: engaged in border-crossing journeys through a number of nation states, many Filipina migrants move on and on rather than back and forth. They do so within a global hierarchy of desirable destination countries, ranked according to the differences between nation-states with regard to salaries and the legal entitlements migrants can claim, the costs and risks migrants have to take in order to enter, and these countries’ overall subjective and imaginative attractiveness. By migrating on, Filipina domestic workers acquire an intimate picture of the Middle East “backstage.” Some even become self-proclaimed Middle Eastern experts or politically active Christian Zionists or sentimental Orientalists, who, in spite of their Christianity, miss fasting on Yom Kippur or during Ramadan as they continue their journeys toward Western Europe and North America, where they have hopes of living and perhaps gaining citizenship.
Further data
| Item Type: | Article in a book |
|---|---|
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Keywords: | Filipino diaspora; cosmopolitanism; citizenship; migration; domestic work |
| Institutions of the University: | Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Chair Social Anthropology > Chair Social Anthropology - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Erdmute Alber Faculties Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Chair Social Anthropology |
| Result of work at the UBT: | No |
| DDC Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 300 Social sciences, sociology and anthropology |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Dec 2014 10:56 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Feb 2024 13:40 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/4444 |