Annotated Bibliography

Inquirer. "Filipina Maid Abused in Singapore." Philippine Inquirer 20 July 2009. Print.

The article discusses the abuse and battering that she received from her employer when she was in Singapore. The appeal of this article for my research is that it is a first hand accounts of the life an Overseas Filipino Worker. Shows how life could potentially be for those living in a different country.

VISAYAN FORUM FOUNDATION. "BASIC FACTS ON FILIPINO DOMESTIC WORKERS." Visayan Forum. Visayan Forum Foundation, 2011. Web. 9 Nov. 2011. .

The Website discusses the basic facts of Filipino Life as an OFW. It shows the basic facts such as salary, violations, abuses, how people become employed, the Terms of Employment and many other relevant data. Shows the true nature and what lifestyle they will have when they are placed in different countries

Salazar, Rhacel P. "Migrant Filipina Workers and the International Division of Reproductive Labor." Gender and Society 14.4 (200): 560-80. Print.

Discusses the plight globalization of domestic workers in a three-tiered system. First being the well educated and their migration to more developed countries. The second tier is the middle class who can migrate to work jobs for families. The third tier are those who are too poor to migrate and find jobs. The perspective she takes are those of the Filipinas and the experiences they had being in the middle of the event.

Cheng, Shu-Tu A. "Contextual Difference in Transnational Care: The Rhetoric of Filipina Domestics' Employers in Taiwan." Feminist Review 77 (2004): 46-64. Print.

An in depth analysis of the effects of employing Philippine Migrant Workers with the pride of their employers. Shows the hierarchy within the household of the employer with the maid being at the bottom. Furthermore, it discusses how maids are used to reaffirm the social status of their employer by discriminating on them. The author also establishes the synonymous relationship between nationality and culture that the employers create. Broadly speaking, it is the sense of others established by the employers to differentiate themselves from their employees.

Wesson, Cameron B. "Chiefly Power and Food Storage in Southeastern America." World Archeology 31.1 (1999): 45-64. Print.

Disclaimer: The Title is a Misnomer to the actual content of the paper.

Discusses the international domestic labor that has become dominated by women. It explores the difficulty faced of the women who have families back home and are still bounded by their duties as a mother and women back home. Moreover, it discusses the effects they have within the families they serve (which does not necessarily bode well). Also discusses the difficulty of having to raise two sets of family and the reasons they choose to migrate.

Constable, Nicole. "Sexuality and Discipline among Filipina Workers in Hong Kong." American Ethnologists 24.3 (1997): 539-58. Print.

Discusses the sexual threat that maids pose on the family dynamics of Hong Kong. Nicole Constable discusses the rigid transformation that Migrant Workers receive upon their arrival. She further discovers that their presence is a danger to family dynamics especially the women. Their female employers feel as if they are being removed and replaced by a migrant woman.

Ehrenreich, Barbara. "Serving Florida." Nickel and Dimed. New York: Henry Holt and, 2001(8). 11-51. Print.

The First Chapter speaks to some of the principles of the Filipina Migrant Worker. That is many of them are ignored and are only noticed when they make a mistake at the expense of their employers. It was striking to see that such treatment is can happen anywhere in any country. Thus her experience somewhat mirrors the experience of some of the Filipina Migrants when they enter Hong Kong or other parts of Asia.

Although I have my sources and I am continuing to search for more, I have not decided as to what my original contribution would be.