Dissertations / Theses: 'Filipino women'

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Ko, Celine M. "Health beliefs and cancer prevention practices of Filipino American women." Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3213464.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego and San Diego State University, 2006.
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed June 27, 2006). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-133).

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Mercado-Ortiz, Georgiana. "Reverse smoking and palatal changes in Filipino women /." Title page, contents and precis only, 1992. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09SM/09smm553.pdf.

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Tibe-Bonifacio, Glenda Lynna Anne. "Filipino women and their citizenship in Australia in search of political space /." Access electronically, 2003. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20041222.122054.

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Miron, Sharon Gail. "Empowering women through development, the perspectives of filipino women in a rural non-government program." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq21245.pdf.

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Carrillo, Maria Lourdes. "Socially transformative transnational feminism : Filipino women activists at home and abroad." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/14705.

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Twelve Filipino women activists who shared the same ideology were interviewed in three locations: the Philippines, the Netherlands, and Vancouver, BC. The study considers how massive migration and displacement of Filipino women have produced transnational communities of struggle that are a source of political consciousness and positive social change. The research compares personal and social changes among those immersed in daily struggle under different circumstances. It looks at how and why women and communities are transformed in the very process of struggle -- women becoming more socially empowered and communities learning to be more assertive, democratic, and politically engaged. In the stories they tell, the women historicize, contextualize, and politicize actions for structural change. While transnational feminism appears to parallel global strategies of transnational entities and nation-states, feminist movements struggle to be relevant. Mohanty (2003) sees antiglobalization activism as imperative for feminist solidarity, yet feminist projects continue to seek focused, collective efforts against neo-Iiberalism. This group’s activism enhances our understanding of feminist praxis. They jointly address neo-colonial domination (capitalist globalization) and systemic race-class-gender oppression. Economic experiences of those from a poor Majority World nation and actions from socially and politically conscious activists are integrated into community-based and academic feminist theorizing. Their analyses of global trade/labour trafficking contribute to learning about responsible communities and hope for transnational solidarity. This project proposes a socially transformative feminism that does not merely recognize antiglobalization efforts, but analyzes progressive feminist praxis that points to women’s liberation as directly linked to positive structural change locally, nationally, and transnationally, while already demonstrating its possibility. Citing the work of Mohanty (2003), Tuhiwai-Smith (2002), Sandoval (2000), and community-based research by the Philippine Women Centre of BC (1996-2006), it builds on feminist research and social change movements. It focuses on marginalized women’s/communities’ capacity to show creative assertion and political participation, and examines criteria for what is socially transformative. The study concludes by reassessing the relationship of feminism and transnationalism in the context of these women’s lives and work—the realities of migration, the dialectics of women’s marginalization and empowerment, and the perpetual, constantly changing nature of social transformation.

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Hietala, Sadian Melanie. "The Experiences of Filipino Immigrant Women - Adjusting to Life in Sweden." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-100743.

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Female immigration is getting more and more common because of globalization and the rising demand for female workers. Women's experiences of integration often have its foundations in officials', authorities', and society's perspective, which is why it is vital to get a deeper understanding of the women's personal experiences. Thus, the objective of this study is to examine how different dimensions play out in Filipino immigrant women's integration and to investigate Filipino immigrant women's experiences of living and working in Sweden. Furthermore, definitions of equality of opportunity are explored. The data has been collected through 15 semi-structured qualitative interviews. Using Berry’s acculturation theory and Crenshaw’s intersectionality theory as analytical tools, findings showed that Filipino immigrant women face double discrimination in the Swedish labour market. Furthermore, findings showed that additional factors such as marital status, children or pregnancy, education, and gender ideology impact how the women experience life in Sweden. Filipino immigrant women perceive language as a crucial route to integration while the language barrier among loss of social support and discrimination is a significant stressor in the acculturation process.

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Sri, Tharan Caridad T. "Gender, migration and social change : the return of Filipino women migrant workers." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2010. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/2351/.

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This study is about the consequences of feminised migration on migrant women workers, on their families and on the Philippine society as a whole. The continued dependence on migration and increasingly, women‘s migration, by the Philippine government to address unemployment on one hand, and by the Filipino families on the other hand, to secure employment and a better life, has led to social change: change in migrant women‘s sense of identity and personhood; restructuring of households and redefinition of families and gender relations and the rise of a culture of migration. To understand these social changes, the study focuses on the return phase of migration situated within the overall migration process and adopts a gendered and feminist approach. Existing theories of return migration cannot adequately capture the meanings of the return of migrant women workers. Studying return through a gendered approach allows us to reflect on the extent migration goals have been achieved or not, the conditions under which return takes place for a migrant woman worker and various factors affecting life after migration for the migrant women and their families. Return of the women migrant workers cannot be neatly categorised as voluntary or involuntary. It is gendered. It is involuntary, voluntary, and mainly ambivalent. Involuntary return was influenced by structural limitations arising from the temporary and contractual type of migration in jobs categorised as unskilled. Voluntary return was mainly determined by the achievement of migration goals, the psychological need to return after prolonged absence and by the need to respond to concerns of families left behind. Ambivalent return was caused by the desire to maintain the status, economic power, freedom and autonomy stemming from the migrants' breadwinning role; the need to sustain the families‘ standard of living; as well as the apprehensions of a materially insecure life back home. The socio-psychological consequences on families and children of migrant women are deep and wide-ranging. Similarly, women migrants, though empowered at a certain level, had to face psychological and emotional consequences upon return influenced by persistent gender roles and gender regimes. By analysing the impact of gendered migration and return on the societal level, the study has broadened and deepened the conceptualisation of the phenomenon of culture of migration by bringing other elements and factors such as the role of the state, human resources, sustainable livelihood, national identity and governance.

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Lund, Karin. "Runaway Beauties : Coping Strategies among Returning Filipino Women who Experienced Labour Trafficking." Thesis, Ersta Sköndal högskola, Institutionen för socialt arbete, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:esh:diva-2893.

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The aim of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of how Filipino female returnees cope with the experience of labour trafficking when reintegrated into their home communities, and how this coping relate to existing research on comparable returnee experiences. The empirical material consists of qualitative interviews with five returnees, conducted during an eight-week stay in the Philippines. The study identifies coping strategies adapted upon return, and analyzes them in the light of the local context and previous studies in the field. The results of the study indicate that, according to the women’s descriptions, strategies related to the escape/avoidance coping type are adapted to a higher extent than other types of coping strategies. These strategies seem to be highly related to the experience or fear of becoming victims of gossiping neighbours and/or patronizing family members. Distancing through humour was also appearing to a great extent in all the interviews, as well as seeking social support. It was found that the strategies expressed by the women were mostly emotion-focused or dysfunctional as opposed to problem-focused, but in many cases active as opposed to passive. The most common social support resources appearing in the interviews were the family, the church, and the supporting organization. The experiences of the respondents have a lot in common with the experiences brought forward in other studies in the same field, though it is important to be aware of the different social and cultural settings in which most of the existing research has been implemented. With this study, the author hopes to contribute to a better understanding of what kind of support Filipino female labour trafficking returnees are in need of, and how to further develop the support system for them and similar groups.

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Yee, Katharine Kate J. Swallow. "Exploring clothing values among Filipino-Canadian women, an application of the group technique." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq23561.pdf.

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Merana, Lorneneth. "A Qualitative Exploration of Health Beliefs among Midlife Filipino American Women in California." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2008. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/11.

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Research pertaining to Filipino American health issues is growing but most remain delimited to children, college students, and older adults. The purpose of this study was two-fold. The first was to define the health beliefs of four Filipino American women who were in midlife through in-depth one-on-one interviews regarding cardiovascular diseases and in utilizing health care to prevent, diagnose, or treat those diseases. The second purpose was to conceptualize potential links between the health beliefs of those Filipino American women and their attitudes or choices about health care utilization. Conclusively, the health beliefs of the four midlife Filipino-American women in this study were firmly established in their self-efficacy in recognizing their risks of cardiovascular disease and in making the best choices to decrease their risk of developing one. In contrast to the assumptions of this study, I found that these women a) were very aware of the resources available to them when they had health issues and b) their health beliefs regarding cardiovascular diseases did not hinder utilization of the health care services to which they had access. In fact, they were more receptive to utilizing health care resources to garner a medical perspective as long as they gained a clearer understanding of the health issue and that the treatment options were as natural as possible.

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Tanton, Patricia. "'Mail-order' marriage and global imperialism : intimacy and human rights." Thesis, University of Essex, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313060.

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Ezquerra, Sandra. "The regulation of the south-north transfer of reproductive labor : Filipino women in Spain and the United States /." Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank) Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/9017.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2008.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 448-470). Also available online in Scholars' Bank; and in ProQuest, free to University of Oregon users.

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Dionisio, Nicole J. "The Effect of Objectified Images in the Media on the Development of Body Dissatisfaction and Depressive Symptoms in Filipino American Women." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2968.

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Although Filipinos are becoming one of the largest Asian groups in the U.S there is limited research regarding mental health challenges Filipino women experience specifically regarding body satisfaction and self-image. The goal of this explorative qualitative study was to explore the relationship between objectified images of women in the media and the reported levels of body dissatisfaction in a sample of 8 American-born Filipino women and 8 Philippine-born Filipino women. Objectification theory was used to guide this research and levels of sociocultural influences, body satisfaction, and body consciousness were explored through a qualitative research design using statements from the Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire-3, the Body-Esteem Scale for Adolescents and Adults, and the Objectified Body Consciousness Scale. Participants were interviewed individually and the data were coded in order to determine patterns and themes. Results revealed that the Philippine-born participants relied more on images in the media than the American-born participants of the study in relation to what is attractive and fashionable. However as a whole, the data found that the majority of the participating women felt comfortable with their bodies and physical appearance. The results of this study could help create greater awareness of the issues that Filipino American women deal with in relation to their bodies and self-image through the development of initiatives to treat Filipino American women who may be suffering from mental health issues due to objectification as culturally Filipinos typically do not seek psychological intervention. If programs could be designed specifically for Filipinos targeting issues with body satisfaction, fewer Filipinos may be affected by poor body-image.

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Fronda, Cherry Rose Aguilar. "Perceptions, Beliefs, and Behaviors Toward Breast Cancer Screening of Filipino Women in Saudi Arabia." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3561.

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Despite the existence of breast cancer screening that could promote early diagnosis and survival of breast cancer, high mortality rates of breast cancer persist among Filipino women. The purpose of the qualitative study was to describe the perceptions, beliefs, and behaviors of Filipino women working as Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in Saudi Arabia. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with 20 Filipino women between the ages of 40 to 60 years who were recruited voluntarily using purposeful sampling technique. Guided by the structures of health belief model (HBM), the study used an inductive coding technique to elicit common themes from the raw data. The study established that the participants' screening behaviors were influenced by family history of breast cancer, the financial and emotional burden of the disease and its treatment, the benefit of early detection, mobility to participate, culture and language barriers, and the social media. The study also demonstrated that the desire to participate in breast cancer screening is influenced by the participants' perception of susceptibility and perception of severity to breast cancer. The findings of the study could create a positive social change as it may inform the practice of public health providers, influence the drafting of informed policies for comprehensive breast health care, and improve access to preventive health services for Filipino women OFWs. Furthermore, the study could empower Filipino women in their personal health decision making, especially when working in other countries where good health is the working capital and a precondition for survival.

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Merana, Lorneneth E. O'Bryant Camille P. "A qualitative exploration of health beliefs among midlife Filipino American women in California : a master's thesis /." [San Luis Obispo, Calif. : California Polytechnic State University], 2008. http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/11/.

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Thesis (M.S.)--California Polytechnic State University, 2008.
"May 1, 2008." "In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree [of] Master of Science in Kinesiology." "Presented to the faculty of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo." Major professor: Camille O'Bryant, Ph.D. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 71-77). Also available online and on microfiche (2 sheets).

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Mendoza, Katharina Ramo. ""In war, and after it, a prisoner always": reading past the paradigm of redress in the life stories of the Filipino comfort women." Diss., University of Iowa, 2011. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1025.

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This dissertation problematizes the ways in which the experiences of the survivors of the "comfort system," the Japanese military's Asia Pacific War/World War II system of sexual slavery, have been articulated and narrativized, with particular attention to texts by and about the Filipino comfort system survivors, or "Lolas." The juridical contexts in which the former comfort women have so frequently been asked to speak of their experiences have resulted in a paradigmatic comfort women narrative, one that is inherently problematic, despite having proven expedient and politically useful in the short term for generating public interest and support for the cause. This juridical unconscious, whose influence extends to extrajudicial contexts, has reduced the survivors' stories to spectacles of broken, violated bodies, and the survivors themselves to figures of eternal victimhood--representations that ultimately replicate the sexist, racist, and imperialist attitudes that led to the institutionalization of sexual violence during that war. I argue, however, that the comfort women's stories resist total containment; outside the paradigm of redress these narratives are rich sites of knowledge and remembrance whose meanings extend beyond the pursuit of reparations and the promise of closure. This is evident in the texts I examine here, texts by and about Filipinas, whose specific experiences of military sexual enslavement have often been overlooked in international public discourses on the comfort women issue. In the autobiographies Comfort Woman: Slave of Destiny, by Maria Rosa Henson, and The Hidden Battle of Leyte: The Picture Diary of a Girl Taken by the Japanese Military, by Remedios Felias, the survivors/authors flesh out the familial, cultural, and political contexts that inflected their sexual enslavement during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. Both authors also employ multiple languages, including the visual, as they chip away at the limitations of the paradigmatic narrative, re-membering their traumatic pasts and reconstructing socially legitimate identities. In the aftermath of a different kind of wartime sexual violence, the Lolas of Women of Mapanique: Untold Crimes of War, by Nena Gajudo, Gina Alunan, and Susan Macabuag, adopt and adapt the rhetoric of the comfort women redress movement in order to make their own voices heard. In so doing, they reveal difficult truths about the limits of our ability to comprehend and act upon sexual violence against men during wartime. Finally, I discuss three poems: Ruth Elynia S. Mabanglo's "Balada ni Lola Amonita" ("The Ballad of Lola Amonita"), Joi Barrios' "Inasawa ng Hapon" ("Taken to Wife"), and Bino A. Realuyo's "Pantoum: Comfort Woman." I find that by drawing upon the signs, symbols, and rituals of precolonial indigenous and religious Filipino culture, and by superimposing the metaphorical landscape of memory onto the literal landscape of the archipelago, these poems can offer what the paradigmatic comfort women cannot. The opportunity to break out of our voyeuristic consumption of trauma and share cultural space with the victims and survivors, and the chance to see the Lolas' collective experience as an indelible part the nation's past, present, and future.

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Leahy, Patricia. "Female migrant labour in Asia: a case study of Filipina domestic workers in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1990. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31949800.

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Chell, Victoria Ellen. "The arrival and adaptation of new migrants in Italy : a study of Filipino and Somalian women in Rome." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.336334.

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Ezquerra, Sandra 1976. "The Regulation of the South-North Transfer of Reproductive Labor: Filipino Women in Spain and the United States." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/9017.

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xx, 471 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.
This dissertation examines the experiences of Filipina migrant domestic and care workers and the role of the state in the Global South-Global North transfer of reproductive labor. On the one hand, Western countries currently face a "care void" resulting from women's entry in the workforce, aging populations, and limited state support, among other factors. On the other hand, countries in the Global South have gone through decades of economic restructuring. This has resulted in the perpetuation of economic crisis, high unemployment rates, and massive out-migration. In the past two decades, these migration flows have become increasingly feminized. Women from the South move to semi-industrialized and industrialized countries and take jobs as domestic and care workers. Given this scenario, the overall question that guides my analysis is, how do states regulate the South-North transfer of reproductive labor? Particularly, how do the Philippine, Spanish, and U.S. governments shape this transfer through their migration and labor laws? How do Spain and the United States regulate the immigration and reproductive labor of Filipino women? And how do these two receiving countries of reproductive labor, resemble or differ from each other in all these tasks? My goal is to contribute to a growing scholarship that studies government regulation of female migration. I do this by examining Filipinas' out-migration, their arrival in the United States and Spain, and their labor as care givers and domestic workers in the San Francisco Bay Area and Barcelona. Although work on the intersection of gender and the state is growing, there is a need to further analyze the gender factors, components, and consequences of the regulation of migrant labor in the Philippines, the United States and Spain. The methods I use in this study include in-depth interviews with Filipino women, government employees and officials, and representatives from migrant workers' organizations, among other subjects, in the three countries. I also conduct participant observation in the three research sites and analyze multiple documents such as legislation, newspaper articles, and migrant workers' organizations newsletters.
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Sendiong, Hyacinth. "Imagining the Desirable Other. A Discourse Analysis of Online Dating Profiles of Filipino Women and American Men on FilipinoKisses.com." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22318.

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This research explored the stereotypical representations, images, and expectations surrounding the relationships of Filipino women and American men. Within the context of the mail-order bride phenomenon, Filipino women have been largely depicted as victims of racialized and gendered representations of mail-order bride agencies. Similarly, romantic relationships between Filipino women and American men are reduced to mere business at which romantic love and desire is absent. However, such depictions fail to acknowledge other factors at play with Filipino women’s intention to seek relationship with Western men. Within the Filipino society, Western men are constructed as better marriage partners in contrast to that of Filipino men. Findings revealed that the desire to seek relationships with one another is driven by their desire based on the preconceptions they perceive one another to possess.

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Obligacion, Freddie R. "Delineating the structural correlates and cognitive consequences of personal powerlessness among Filipino women: attribution theory in a third world context /." The Ohio State University, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487928649986278.

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Lee, Nanette R. Adair Linda S. "Estimating the effects of overweight duration, sodium intake and genetic variants on hypertension risk among Filipino women in Cebu, Philippines." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,2468.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009.
Title from electronic title page (viewed Sep. 3, 2009). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health." Discipline: Nutrition; Department/School: Public Health.

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Chen, Hong Lei. "Perceived racism of Filipino workers in Macau : depression risk and the moderating effects of coping and ethnic identity." Thesis, University of Macau, 2012. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2589561.

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Kennelly, Estelle M. "Culture of indifference : dilemmas of the Filipina domestic helpers in Hong Kong." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/509.

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In this study, an examination of the everyday experiences of the contract migrant Filipina domestic helpers exposes a culture of indifference which pervades the Hong Kong society on all levels--individual, community, and judiciary. At the centre of the abuses inflicted upon the Helpers is the employment contract with extraordinarily restrictive terms which promotes abuse by many employers. This study also looks at the transnational informal social infrastructure which has been organized by the Filipino community to mediate the hostile working environment engendered by the indifference of the global economic and political climate upon their lives. Faced with the task of implementing new policies for controlling labour migration into Hong Kong, the legislators have focused on the end result and finding the means with which to accomplish their goal. Embedded within this process are unexamined cultural mores and practices. Although the starting point is to benefit the community, by providing domestic helpers to serve the middle and upper class households, too often the abusive consequences to individual migrants are ignored as the women become the means to an end. Migration has often been viewed as an aberration to the notion of the sedentary community. Treated as an anomaly, it is the migrant who problematizes simple theoretical positions of social organization and structure. The migrant is always treated as the one who does not conform to the ideal community and is conveniently merged into existing social categories, such as the lower status of women in Hong Kong, and the lower status of domestic workers -- relegated thereby to the periphery of the society's consciousness.

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Espinosa, Shirlita Africa. "Sexualised citizenship in print culture : an ethnography of Filipinos in Australia." Phd thesis, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9046.

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Kennelly, Estelle Maria. "Culture of indifference : dilemmas of the Filipina domestic helpers in Hong Kong /." St Andrews, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/509.

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Bäck, Hanna. "THE NANNY’S NANNY : Filipina Migrant Workers and the ‘Stand-In’ Women at Home." Thesis, Mid Sweden University, Department of Social Work, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-306.

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This article examines the case of Filipina women that substitute for Filipina migrant workers. Through semi-structured interviews in the Philippines this study draws attention to the experiences of the ‘stand-in’ women and demonstrates how the organisation of care in the transnational families is based on a system whereby female family members or friends are ascribed with a ‘natural’ responsibility to become social reproductive stand-ins for the migrated mothers. In the global transfer of social reproduction, hierarchies of women are maintained, based on intersectional power structures such as ethnicity, race, nationality, age, and class. But the stand-in women in the three-tier transfer of reproductive labour, or global care chain, do not always occupy one single position, but actually shift in time and place between ‘the middle’ and ‘the bottom’ of the hierarchy. Regardless of location, Filipina women remain under the burden of their gendered duties and whether working abroad as domestic workers or acting as local stand-ins, they have to take on both local and global social reproductive work. They become the breadwinner in their families, at the same time as they are ascribed natural responsibility for households and families, as wives, mothers and stand-ins ‘at home’.

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Cheng, Shu-Ju Ada. "Serving the household and the nation : Filipina domestics and the development of nationhood in Taiwan /." Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3008300.

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Lam, Ka Ian. "No (wo)man is an island, entire of itself:a comparative study of Cape Verdean and Filipina migrant women." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/12784.

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A migração tem ganho novos significados e expressões nas últimas décadas. Cabo Verde e as Filipinas possuem diásporas grandes em relação à sua população. Este estudo tenta aproximar dois mundos e olhar para fenómenos semelhantes num quadro maior. Este trabalho aborda as migrações femininas contemporâneas caboverdiana e filipina numa perspetiva comparativa. Segue uma orientação transnational e adota o enquadramento analítico transnacional. Problematiza a associação entre mulheres migrantes e a incapacidade de efetivamente negociar laços antigos e formar relações novas. É objetivo deste estudo investigar como as mulheres migrantes caboverdianas e filipinas vivem, definem, e negoceiam os seus relacionamentos com pessoas e lugares, dada a configuração transnacional da migração contemporânea. Nele argumento que elas reavaliam as suas relações e se apropriam delas seguindo ideias e critérios específicos resultantes das suas experiências migratórias. O meu estudo sugere que as mulheres migrantes são sujeitas histórica, social e culturalmente situadas, capazes de cultivar vínculos significativos. Elas não só possuem a capacidade de desenvolver relações significativas, mas estão também aptas a navegar um mar de identidades e pertenças múltiplas e sobrepostas.
Migration has gained new expressions and acquired new meanings in recent decades. Cape Verde and the Philippines have large diasporas in relation to their population. This study attempts to bring two worlds closer and view similar phenomena in a wider context. It explores contemporary Cape Verdean and Filipina female migrations in a comparative perspective. It is a transnational-oriented research guided by the analytical framework of transnationalism. It problematizes the association between migrant women and the inability to effectively manage old ties and form new bonds. It is my objective to discuss how Cape Verdean and Filipina migrant women live, define and negotiate their relationships with people and places, given the transnational configuration of contemporary migration. I argue that they reassess and appropriate these relationships with reference to distinct ideas and criteria resulting from their migratory experiences. My study suggests that migrant women are historically, socially and culturally situated subjects. Not only do they share the capacity to forge meaningful relationships, but they also navigate through a sea of multiple and overlapping identities and belongings.
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Crebo, Elaine C. "Filipina domestic helpers in Hong Kong and their role in English language learning." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B27051948.

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Briones, Leah, and leahb@adam com au. "Beyond agency and rights: capability, migration and livelihood in Filipina experiences of domestic work in Paris and Hong Kong." Flinders University. Centre for Development Studies, 2006. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au./local/adt/public/adt-SFU20070129.080025.

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More and more women from poor areas of the world are migrating to rich countries for domestic work. Given the increasing published research on their exploitation and slavery, much policy action has been oriented towards their protection as victims. Far from protecting the livelihood needs of these migrant workers, however, this victim-based approach has instead resulted in legitimising the protection of rich countries borders. An emerging perspective underscoring migrant womens agency is producing a counter-approach that fights for migrant workers rights: not as victims but as workers. Yet despite this important development in research and policy agendas, increasing inequality in the global economy and stringent immigration policies render a rights-based approach ineffective. From poor countries, and with very limited livelihood options, these migrant women choose overseas domestic work often at the expense of their human rights. As migrants, they are outsiders whose rights are superseded by the rights of the sovereign, receiving-state. How is it possible then, to protect the rights of these workers? This thesis employs Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaums Capability Approach to evaluate the efficacy of these womens agency in overcoming victimisation. This evaluation gives equal consideration to the victim and rights-based perspectives. It synthesises the Capability Approach with Anthony Giddens Structuration Theory in order to reconcile the polarised theories underlying the victim and rights-based perspectives - feminist structural theory and migration agency theory, respectively. In so doing, the study is able to refine the conceptualisation of agency from the highly ambiguous rights-based approach, to a more theoretically sound and feasible capability approach. The main hypothesis is that agency requires capability to successfully mediate victimisation; agency in itself is insufficient. The study draws on the experiences of Filipina overseas domestic workers in Paris and Hong Kong to test this hypothesis, and demonstrates how it is capability that can turn the slave into the worker, and protect the worker from turning into a slave.

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Drum, Mary Therese, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Women, religion and social change in the Philippines: Refractions of the past in urban filipinas' religious practices today." Deakin University. School of Social Inquiry, 2001. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20060825.115435.

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This research is an exploration of the place of religious beliefs and practices in the life of contemporary, predominantly Catholic, Filipinas in a large Quezon City Barangay in Metro Manila. I use an iterative discussion of the present in the light of historical studies, which point to women in pre-Spanish Filipino society having been the custodians of a rich religious heritage and the central performers in a great variety of ritual activities. I contend that although the widespread Catholic evangelisation, which accompanied colonisation, privileged male religious leadership, Filipinos have retained their belief in feminine personages being primary conduits of access to spiritual agency through which the course of life is directed. In continuity with pre-Hispanic practices, religious activities continue to be conceived in popular consciousness as predominantly womens sphere of work in the Philippines. I argue that the reason for this is that power is not conceived as a unitary, undifferentiated entity. There are gendered avenues to prestige and power in the Philippines, one of which directly concerns religious leadership and authority. The legitimacy of religious leadership in the Philippines is heavily dependent on the ability to foster and maintain harmonious social relations. At the local level, this leadership role is largely vested in mature influential women, who are the primary arbiters of social values in their local communities. I hold that Filipinos have appropriated symbols of Catholicism in ways that allow for a continuation and strengthening of their basic indigenous beliefs so that Filipinos religious beliefs and practices are not dichotomous, as has sometimes been argued. Rather, I illustrate from my research that present day urban Filipinos engage in a blend of formal and informal religious practices and that in the rituals associated with both of these forms of religious practice, women exercise important and influential roles. From the position of a feminist perspective I draw on individual womens articulation of their life stories, combined with my observation and participation in the religious practices of Catholic women from different ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds, to discuss the role of Filipinas in local level community religious leadership. I make interconnections between womens influence in this sphere, their positioning in family social relations, their role in the celebration of All Saints and All Souls Days in Metro Manilas cemeteries and the ubiquity and importance of Marian devotions. I accompany these discussions with an extensive body of pictorial plates.

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Martin, Jocelyn S. "Re/membering: articulating cultural identity in Philippine fiction in English." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210163.

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This dissertation examines how Philippine (or Filipino) authors emphasise the need for articulating or “re/membering” cultural identity. The researcher mainly draws from the theory of Caribbean critic, Stuart Hall, who views cultural identity as an articulation which allows “the fragmented, decentred human agent” to be considered as one who is both “subject-ed” by power but/and one who is capable of acting against those powers (Grossberg 1996 [1986]: 157, emphasis mine). Applied to the Philippine context, this writer argues that, instead of viewing an apparent fragmented Filipino identity as a hindrance to “defining” cultural identity, she views the “damaged” (Fallows 1987) Filipino history as a the material itself which allows articulation of identity. Instead of reducing the cultural identity of a people to what-they-could-have-been-had-history-not-intervened, she puts forward a vision of identity which attempts to transfigure these “damages” through the efforts of coming-to-terms with history. While this point of view has already been shared by other critics (such as Feria 1991 or Dalisay 1998:145), the author’s contribution lies in presenting re/membering to describe a specific type of articulation which neither permits one to deny wounds of the past nor stagnate in them. Moreover, re/membering allows one to understand continuous re-articulations of “new” identities (due to current migration), while putting an “arbitrary closure” (Hall) to simplistic re-articulations which may only further the “lines of tendential forces” (such as black or brown skin bias) or hegemonic practices.

Written as such (with a slash),“re/membering” encapsulates the following three-fold meaning: (1) a “re-membering”, to indicate “a putting together of the dismembered past to make sense of the trauma of the present” (Bhabha 1994:63); as (2) a “re-membering” or a re-integration into a group and; as (3) “remembering” which implies possessing “memory or … set [ting] off in search of a memory” (Ricoeur 2004:4). As a morphological unit, “re/membering” designates, the ways in which Filipino authors try to articulate cultural identity through the routes of colonisation, migration and dictatorship.

The authors studied in this thesis include: Carlos Bulosan, Bienvenido Santos, N.V.M. Gonzalez, Nick Joaquin, Frank Sionil José, Ninotchka Rosca, Jessica Hagedorn, and Merlinda Bobis. Sixty-years separate Bulosan’s America is in the Heart (1943) from Hagedorn’s Dream Jungle (2003). Analysis of these works reveals how articulation is both difficult and hopeful. On the one hand, authors criticize the lack of efforts and seriousness towards articulation of cultural identity as re/membering (coming to terms with the past, fostering belonging and cultivating memory). Not only is re/membering challenged by double-consciousness (Du Bois 1994), dismemberment and forgetting, moreover, its necessity is likewise hard to recognize because of pain, trauma, phenomena of splitting, escapist attitudes and preferences for a “comfortable captivity”.

On the other hand, re/membering can also be described as hopeful by the way authors themselves make use of literature to articulate identity through research, dialogue, time, reconciliation and re-creation. Although painstaking and difficult, re/membering is important and necessary because what is at stake is an articulated Philippine cultural identity. However, who would be prepared to make the effort?

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Cette thèse démontre que, pour les auteurs philippins, l’articulation ou « re/membering » l'identité culturelle, est nécessaire. Le chercheur s'appuie principalement sur la théorie de Stuart Hall, qui perçoit l'identité culturelle comme une articulation qui permet de considérer l’homme assujetti capable aussi d'agir contre des pouvoirs (cf. Grossberg 1996 [1986]: 157). Appliquée au contexte philippin, cet auteur soutient que, au lieu de la visualisation d'une identité fragmentée apparente comme un obstacle à une « définition » de l'identité culturelle, elle regarde l’histoire philippine «abîmée» (Fallows 1987) comme le matériel même qui permet l'articulation d’identité. Au lieu de réduire l'identité culturelle d'un peuple à ce qu’ ils auraint pû être avant les interventions de l’histoire, elle met en avant une vision de l'identité qui cherche à transfigurer ces "dommages" par un travail d’acceptation avec l'histoire.

Bien que ce point de vue a déjà été partagé par d'autres critiques (tels que Feria 1991 ou Dalisay 1998:145), la contribution de l'auteur réside dans la présentation de « re/membering » pour décrire un type d'articulation sans refouler les plaies du passé, mais sans stagner en elles non plus. De plus, « re/membering » permet de comprendre de futures articulations de « nouvelles » identités culturelles (en raison de la migration en cours), tout en mettant une «fermeture arbitraire» (Hall) aux ré-articulations simplistes qui ne font que promouvoir des “lines of tendential forces” (Hall) (tels que des préjugés sur la couleur brune ou noire de peau) ou des pratiques hégémoniques.

Rédigé en tant que telle (avec /), « re/membering » comporte une triple signification: (1) une «re-membering », pour indiquer une mise ensemble d’un passé fragmenté pour donner un sens au traumatisme du présent (cf. Bhabha, 1994:63); (2) une «re-membering» ou une ré-intégration dans un groupe et finalement, comme (3)"remembering", qui suppose la possession de mémoire ou une recherche d'une mémoire »(Ricoeur 2004:4). Comme unité morphologique, « re/membering » désigne la manière dont les auteurs philippins tentent d'articuler l'identité culturelle à travers les routes de la colonisation, les migrations et la dictature.

Les auteurs inclus dans cette thèse sont: Carlos Bulosan, Bienvenido Santos, NVM Gonzalez, Nick Joaquin, Frank Sionil José, Ninotchka Rosca, Jessica Hagedorn, et Merlinda Bobis. Soixante ans séparent America is in the Heart (1943) du Bulosan et le Dream Jungle (2003) du Hagedorn. L'analyse de ces œuvres révèle la façon dont l'articulation est à la fois difficile et pleine d'espoir. D'une part, les auteurs critiquent le manque d'efforts envers l'articulation en tant que « re/membering » (confrontation avec le passé, reconnaissance de l'appartenance et cultivation de la mémoire). Non seulement est « re/membering » heurté par le double conscience (Du Bois 1994), le démembrement et l'oubli, en outre, sa nécessité est également difficile à reconnaître en raison de la douleur, les traumatismes, les phénomènes de scission, les attitudes et les préférences d'évasion pour une captivité "confortable" .

En même temps, « re/membering » peut également être décrit comme plein d'espoir par la façon dont les auteurs eux-mêmes utilisent la littérature pour articuler l'identité à travers la recherche, le dialogue, la durée, la réconciliation et la re-création. Bien que laborieux et difficile, « re/membering » est important et nécessaire car ce qui est en jeu, c'est une identité culturelle articulée des Philippines. Mais qui serait prêt à l'effort?

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Agbayani, Diana R. "The image of the Filipina selected award-winning Filipino movies during the decade of women 1975-1985." 1991. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/68707845.html.

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Senga, Soledad S. "Clothing values of Filipino women residing in Winnipeg." 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/29939.

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Mercado-Ortiz, Georgiana. "Reverse smoking and palatal changes in Filipino women." Thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/122444.

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The habit of reverse smoking is practiced in various parts of the world including the Philippines. In this preliminary cross-sectional study, 9L volunteer women smokers(61 reverse and 30 conventional) residing in nine barangays in Cabanatuan City, Philippines were interviewed and examined clinically fo¡ the presence or absence of palatal mucosal change. Seven demographic variables and twelve habit variables were investigated to characterize and compare the two study groups. The clinical examination was done to verify changes in color, texture and topography of the palatal mucosa. These changes were recorded photographically and specific features such as leukoplakic change, thickening, fissuring, pigmentation, erythema, nodularity and ulceration were observed and graded. Smears were also taken from three areas of the palate to determine cytologic features. The majority (96.77o) of reverse smokers exhibited palatal mucosal changes including leukoplakic change, mucosal thickening, fissuring, pigmentation, nodularity, erythema and ulceration. In comparison, only 26.7Vo of controls exhibited mucosal changes predominantly that of intramucosal brown-black pigmentation and some erythema. This difference was statistically significant at a X2 value of 47.28 (p<.001). Analysis of the other variables indicated that the two study groups differed significantly with regard to age(p<.05), educational attainment(p<.01), use of filtered versus non-filtered cigarettes(p<.001) and duration of smoking in years(p<.01). The palatal changes in reverse smokers were able to be grouped into three categories. Group 1 subjects included those with pigmentation and some erythema only; Group 2 subjects(comprising the majority of reverse smokers) exhibited various combinations of mild to moderate leukoplakia, fissuring, thickening and pigmentation of the mucosa. Additional features of nodularity, erythema, prominence and reddening of minor salivary gland duct openings were also observed. Group 3 subjects included those with variable ulceration, severe reddening and nondescript roughening. Cytologic features of smears from the two study groups did not differ as to the predominating type of epithelial cells, density and type of inflammatory cells and micronucleated cells. Only the epithelial cell type found in different areas of the palate within each group was found to be statistically significant.
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Liu, Mei-Fang, and 劉美芳. "Lived experiences of intermarriage among Filipino women in Taiwan." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/94129172881188985542.

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Data were gathered initially through in-depth interviewing and participant-observation to hear and observe the voice, emotion and actions, as methods to capture informants’ lived experiences. The purpose of this research is to explore how Filipino women married to Taiwanese men live and experience intermarriage in Taiwanese families. Thick description is used to reconstruct the lived experiences of Filipino women of intermarriage in Taiwanese families. This research was conducted in both city /county of Kaohsiung and PingTung in Taiwan. The principles of sampling in this research were “maximum variation” and “intensity”. Thirteen Filipino women married to Taiwanese men participated in this research, data was analyzed using 5 steps in the interpretive process suggested by Denzin (1989). From sequence of time, data shown: “ transition”, “shuffled into a corner”, and “who am I?”,these three themes represent the lived experiences of Filipino women in intermarriage in Taiwanese families. “Transition” included: “ to take a road”, “in-between”, and “my family” these three categories reconstruct Filipino women leaving the Philippines, looking forward to a new start and walking into intermarriage. “Shuffled into a corner” embraced three categories which are: “I am the only one”, “It’s not what I want”, and “I do not belong here” epitomized the new comers’ feelings and experiences living within Taiwanese families. “ Who am I ?” included: “I am not a wife”, “ I am not a mother”, “I am a maid”, “I am just ‘The’ Filipino”, “ He doesn’t respect me” “ He doesn’t understand me”, and “ I am suffering” these 7 categories picture the Filipino women searching and wondering about their positions in Taiwanese families. This research epitomizes the lived experiences of Filipino women in intermarriage in Taiwanese families, and also shows how she suffers when two different cultures encounter one another. The researcher discussed those sufferings and proposed suggestions for the nursing profession and the Taiwanese government. Finally, from interaction with the deeply personal and self-revealing stories of those Filipino women, the researcher gave her own reflection.

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Gascon, Jesusa T. "Childspacing of currently married Filipino women married only once." Phd thesis, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/117025.

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Using 1983 National Demographic Survey (NDS) data on currently married women and been married only once, this study examines childspacing differentials among Filipino women utilizing life table techniques. In particular, the subsequent birth from parity 1 to parity 5 are examined in relation to women's current place of residence, education, contraceptive use, experience of infant mortality and current age. Examination shows that in Metro Manila and other urban areas, the proportion of women having subsequent birth tended to decline faster after the second birth. In rural areas, the proportion of women having subsequent birth from parity 1 to parity 5 shows only a slight tendency to decline. Compared with rural women, women in Metro Manila and other urban areas have longer birth intervals after the second birth. Younger women have second births sooner but a smaller proportion have subsequent births and they have longer birth intervals at third and higher births than older women. This manifests changing attitudes towards reproductive behaviour among Filipino women. Results of the analysis confirm the negative effect of education on fertility. Women of higher education exhibit a lower proportion having subsequent births and longer birth intervals after the second birth than women of lesser education. The effect of women's experience of contraceptive use on the quantum and timing of fertility is observed to operate more at the higher parities. In other urban and rural areas, the proportion of ever-users of contraception having further births is lower than for never-users after the second birth but after the third birth in Metro Manila. The study gives further empirical evidence of the effect of infant mortality on fertility behaviour. For each birth order the death of the previous child within the first year of life tended to increase the proportion of women having a subsequent birth, and shortened the average intervals between births.

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Obcena, Angelito Salinas. "Work sequences of Filipino women during the life cycle." Master's thesis, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/131645.

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This study attempt s to analyse the trends and patterns of female labour force participation based on the 1960, 1970 and 1975 censuses . The main analysis utilises the data from a sample of currently married women aged 15-49 included in the 1978 Republic of the Philippine s Fertility Survey (RPFS ) whose first marriage remained intact and whose first birth 'interval is positive . It identifies the main work sequence s of Filipino women during the three life cycle stages - before marriage , the period between marriage and the first birth, and the period between the first birth and the survey date . In addition , the relationship between demographic and socio-economic factors and work sequences is examined and the work continuity during the life cycle stages is investigated . The discussion also focuses on whether the work experience before marriage is an important predictor of current work status.

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Hannah, CT. "Health and wellbeing of intermarried Filipino women in rural Tasmania." Thesis, 2012. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/14704/2/whole-hannah-thesis-exc-pub-mat.pdf.

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Intermarriage has become a social phenomenon for some Filipino women. This is particularly true in Australia, where most Filipino women have arrived on the basis of marriage. They bring with them their cultural values and beliefs which affect the way in which they view their new environment, through their cultural lenses and their views and attitudes may not be understood or accommodated by the mainstream. The main purpose of this research was to investigate the health and wellbeing of Filipino wives who came to Australia as a result of intermarriage and now live in rural parts of Tasmania. The focus was on the following aspects: acculturation problems, health concepts and health care in rural Tasmania, problems in access to health care services, and the social and cultural capital. This study employed mixed methods with a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches. Data analysis revealed that health and wellbeing were the two most important aspects in the life of the intermarried Filipino women in rural Tasmania. The main factors which significantly affect their health and wellbeing in their acculturation into rural Tasmania include: age gap, English language proficiency, highest level of education, and length of stay in Tasmania. The findings of this study also presented insights into the mental and emotional intelligence of the intermarried Filipino women as to how they handled possible culture shock and how they adapted to the mainstream culture throughout their interracial married life.

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Novek, Sheila. "Women, migration and care work: Filipino health care aides in Canada." 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4751.

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Personal care homes have become increasingly dependent on the employment of immigrant care workers. This qualitative study explored the high concentration of Filipino health care aides in personal care homes from their own perspectives, as well as that of policy stakeholders. In depth interviews were conducted with seven Filipino health care aides working in personal care homes in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Semi-structured interviews with policy stakeholders examined the policy context of the health care aide labour force. The study identified several factors that influenced the migration and employment of Filipino health care aides including: poverty and unemployment, migrant social networks, barriers in the labour market and financial incentives. The lack of regulations for health care aides sustained the flow of immigrant labour and enabled the expansion of social networks. Although their employment decisions were primarily based on financial need, health care aides valued their work and viewed themselves as critical care providers.

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Saroca, Cleonicki. "Hearing the voices of Filipino women: violence, media representation and contensted realities." Thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1312946.

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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
This thesis is a feminist exploration of how violence against Filipino women in Australia is represented in the Australian and Philippine media and the relationship between the women's lives and media images of their abuse. It is fundamentally concerned with the problem of the absent and silenced voices of Filipino women in media portrayals of violence. It aims at creating a space in which the women's stories can be told. Based on interview data and discourse analysis of Australian and Philippine newspaper articles, the study investigates how the homicides and disappearance of seven Filipino women are represented. Case studies drawn from interviews with family members and friends of these women comprise the core of the study. An exploration of additional articles and interviews further reinforces the issues and themes that emerge in the case studies. The case studies contextualise the women's experiences. Analysing media images in light of the interviews reinstates the absent and silenced voice in media accounts of violence. By charting the lives of these seven women. their hopes and aspirations as well as the pain and fear they suffered at the hands of abusive male partners, the case studies illuminate the way media accounts have largely misrepresented their experiences. Many of the Australian articles, in particular, bore little resemblance to the women's lived realities. Juxtaposing Australian with Philippine portrayals further illuminates the racism and sexism of a large section of the Australian print media. A major theme to emerge out of this study is that the relationship between media image and actual violence also involves struggle and conflict over constructions of identity. It is a site of contested realities. Most of the articles analysed in this study failed to tell the story from the deceased women's perspective. It is argued that to hear these women's stories, journalists need to move beyond using sexist, racist and class-based stereotypes, such as mail order bride, to describe Filipino women or explain their abuse. It also means accounting for the history of domestic violence that was a large part of their lives.

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Saroca, Cleonicki. "Hearing the voices of Filipino women: violence, media representation and contested realities." Thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/25851.

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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
This thesis is a feminist exploration of how violence against Filipino women in Australia is represented in the Australian and Philippine media and the relationship between the women’s lives and media images of their abuse. It is fundamentally concerned with the problem of the absent and silenced voices of Filipino women in media portrayals of violence. It aims at creating a space in which the women’s stories can be told. Based on interview data and discourse analysis of Australian and Philippine newspaper articles, the study investigates how the homicides and disappearance of seven Filipino women are represented. Case studies drawn from interviews with family members and friends of these women comprise the core of the study. An exploration of additional articles and interviews further reinforces the issues and themes that emerge in the case studies. The case studies contextualise the women’s experiences. Analysing media images in light of the interviews reinstates the absent and silenced voice in media accounts of violence. By charting the lives of these seven women, their hopes and aspirations as well as the pain and fear they suffered at the hands of abusive male partners, the case studies illuminate the way media accounts have largely misrepresented their experiences. Many of the Australian articles, in particular, bore little resemblance to the women’s lived realities. Juxtaposing Australian with Philippine portrayals further illuminates the racism and sexism of a large section of the Australian print media. A major theme to emerge out of this study is that the relationship between media image and actual violence also involves struggle and conflict over constructions of identity. It is a site of contested realities. Most of the articles analysed in this study failed to tell the story from the deceased woman’s perspective. It is argued that to hear these women's voices, journalists need to move beyond using sexist, racist and class-based stereotypes, such as mail order bride, to describe Filipino women or explain their abuse. It also means accounting for the history of domestic violence that was a large part of their lives.

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Saroca, Cleonicki. "Hearing the voices of Filipino women: violence, media representation and contested realities." 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/25851.

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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
This thesis is a feminist exploration of how violence against Filipino women in Australia is represented in the Australian and Philippine media and the relationship between the women’s lives and media images of their abuse. It is fundamentally concerned with the problem of the absent and silenced voices of Filipino women in media portrayals of violence. It aims at creating a space in which the women’s stories can be told. Based on interview data and discourse analysis of Australian and Philippine newspaper articles, the study investigates how the homicides and disappearance of seven Filipino women are represented. Case studies drawn from interviews with family members and friends of these women comprise the core of the study. An exploration of additional articles and interviews further reinforces the issues and themes that emerge in the case studies. The case studies contextualise the women’s experiences. Analysing media images in light of the interviews reinstates the absent and silenced voice in media accounts of violence. By charting the lives of these seven women, their hopes and aspirations as well as the pain and fear they suffered at the hands of abusive male partners, the case studies illuminate the way media accounts have largely misrepresented their experiences. Many of the Australian articles, in particular, bore little resemblance to the women’s lived realities. Juxtaposing Australian with Philippine portrayals further illuminates the racism and sexism of a large section of the Australian print media. A major theme to emerge out of this study is that the relationship between media image and actual violence also involves struggle and conflict over constructions of identity. It is a site of contested realities. Most of the articles analysed in this study failed to tell the story from the deceased woman’s perspective. It is argued that to hear these women's voices, journalists need to move beyond using sexist, racist and class-based stereotypes, such as mail order bride, to describe Filipino women or explain their abuse. It also means accounting for the history of domestic violence that was a large part of their lives.

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Briones, Leah Rose. "Beyond agency and rights : capability, migration and livelihood in Filipina experiences of domestic work in Paris and Hong Kong /." 2006. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au/local/adt/public/adt-SFU20070129.080025/index.html.

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"Working as a maid in Shanghai: a comparative study of the lives and employment of Chinese and Filipina domestic helpers." 2010. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5896614.

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Chen, Yingjun.
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 204-207).
Abstracts in English and Chinese.
Abstract --- p.i
Acknowledgements --- p.iii
Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1
Statement of problem --- p.1
Literature review --- p.3
Methodology --- p.14
The structure of the thesis --- p.19
Chapter 2 --- Domestic Service Market in Shanghai --- p.21
Two operating systems --- p.21
An unregulated market --- p.24
Conflicts between agencies and maids --- p.29
From the local to foreign domestic service market --- p.37
Chapter 3 --- Chinese Maids in Shanghai: A Personal Profile --- p.47
"Salary, days off and live-in/out" --- p.47
Who are they and why did they come to Shanghai to work as maids? --- p.50
Coming and leaving: Two stories --- p.55
Living in Shanghai --- p.59
Conflicts among maids --- p.65
What value do maids place on their job? --- p.68
Future plans --- p.71
Chapter 4 --- "Chinese Maids: The Explicit, the Implicit and the Unsaid in the Pre-Job Phase" --- p.75
Unspoken rules of being a proper maid --- p.75
Factors affecting hiring a maid --- p.82
Factors affecting accepting a job --- p.93
Chapter 5 --- The Chinese Maid-Employer Relationship: Conflicts and Resistance --- p.102
Conflicts with employers --- p.102
Resistance --- p.128
Chapter 6 --- Filipina Maids in Shanghai: A Personal Profile --- p.134
Where do Filipina maids work in Shanghai? --- p.134
Who are these Filipina maids and who are their employers? --- p.136
Legal status --- p.138
Why did Filipinas come to China to work as maids? --- p.141
Living in Shanghai --- p.146
About Grace --- p.152
Future plans --- p.155
Maids´ة dual identities in Shanghai --- p.156
Chapter 7 --- The Employment of Filipina Maids and the Employer-Filipina Maid Relationship --- p.162
Reasons for hiring Filipina maids --- p.162
Problems with employers --- p.174
Chapter 8 --- Pulling the Strands Together: Power Relationships --- p.190
Power is the core --- p.190
The causes --- p.193
The consequence --- p.199
A visual depiction of the relationship and its causes --- p.202
Bibliography --- p.204

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Yee, Katharine Kate J. Swallow. "Exploring clothing values among Filipino-Canadian women, an a plication of the group technique." 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/1002.

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The present study has two objectives: (a) to yield new information regarding clothing values through probing the group's perceptions, attitudes and behaviours, and (b) to identify values toward clothing held by a Filipino cultural group. The focus group method was chosen because it enables the investigator to examine responses for greater detail. Three groups of young Filipino women were formed with a total of 12 participants. Grounded Theory was used to interpret and analyze the transcripts. The analysis of the focus group discussions reveal the overriding role of both the root and host cultures and that the participants are more family-centred regarding clothing than respondents involved in earlier research. The participants identified family and context as significant in decisions regarding clothing use. Results indicated that family and context are primary considerations whereas comfort, mood and budget are secondary. Participants identified sub-components of comfort and budget, one of which was the concept of psychological comfort. A hierarchy of value influences, developed from the group discussions, supports ideas from theorists in other disciplines. This focus group approach was useful as the investigator was able to identify the complex relationship of values, in which some influences suggested a hierarchy, while others appeared to be present at similar levels within the hierarchical structure. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)

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"Violence defined and experienced by Filipino female domestic workers in Hong Kong: impacts and buffering factors of general mental health and self-esteem." 2003. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5891758.

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Tam Suet-yan.
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2003.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 69-79).
Abstracts in English and Chinese.
LIST OF TABLES --- p.i
ABSTRACT --- p.iii
CHAPTERS
Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1
Chapter 2. --- Method --- p.21
Chapter 3. --- Results --- p.33
Chapter 4. --- Discussions --- p.54
REFERENCES --- p.69
APPENDIX
Chapter 1. --- In-depth Interview Questions for Pilot Study --- p.80
Chapter 2. --- Questionnaire for Main Study --- p.81
Chapter 3. --- Guiding Questions for Supplementary Case Studies --- p.90
Chapter 4. --- Reports of Supplementary Case Studies --- p.92

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Yuan, Chih-Kang, and 袁志剛. "Cross-Border Marriage and Familial Power Relations:the Case of the Marriages between Taiwanese Men and Filipino Women." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/92301579938039048148.

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國立暨南國際大學
東南亞研究所
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The study adopts a qualitative method to describe how family authority relationship displays in Taiwan-Philippines transnational marriage according to thirty new immigrants of Philippine women in Heng-Chun town, Ping-Dong County. Further, the study explains what factors influence the interaction of family authority relationship between them and their husbands and mothers-in-law. The study detects that most new immigrants of Philippine women can own a job which can raise their family in Heng-Chun thanks to they have more resources themselves. In this kind of situation, they get authority and ways of speaking out. Moreover, they have higher autonomy not only in family, but also in work and interpersonal relationship. Consequently, family authority relationship displayed among Philippine women is they are brave to negotiate with their husbands. Besides, they own more authority of decision-making.

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"Negotiating gender, sexuality, class and ethnicity: women-loving Filipina domestic workers in Hong Kong." 2013. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5549301.

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y8803 在全球化發展下，各國人民、資金、原料和貨物的跨境流動，見頻仍。菲律賓與香港的經濟發展存在龐大差異，很多菲律賓婦女因而來港當家庭傭工。近二十年來，外來家傭的處境引起學術關注，但她們的同性戀生活，却鮮為人深入探究。本研究通過對兩個在港菲傭團體的參與觀察、及十位女同性戀菲傭的深入訪談，探求她們的同性戀生活，與其於兩地的社會地位，以及菲律賓的性／別觀念，有何關連。由於具備獨立經濟能力，菲傭在原生家庭地位提昇，家人亦難以越洋監視其生活。在香港，個人自由受法律保護；而菲傭無法融入社會，也讓她們有更大戀愛自由。本民族誌學研究，肯定了移徒的釋放力量，能幫助開啟性向和性別的可能：一些菲傭不單在香港首次實踐女女愛，更首度以陽剛氣質示人。但菲律賓人普遍相信性別身份不變，故菲傭的性別身份逆轉，較其性向的改變，更難為菲律賓社群接受。本論文並紀錄了同性戀菲傭的男／女性別氣質表現：同性戀菲傭雖多扮演男／女性別角色，但兩個性別氣質的展現，往往較為平衡。本研究遂否定陽剛／陰柔氣質、以及同性戀／異性戀之間，有二元對立式的劃分。
Globalization has seen the acceleration of migration and movement across national borders. Prompted by a gap in the economic development between the two places, many Filipinas move from their homeland to Hong Kong to work as Foreign Domestic Workers (FDWs). Academic attention on their lives has flourished over the last two decades. However, the lesbian practice of FDWs remains under-investigated. Through participant observation of two Filipina FDW groups and in-depth interviews of ten Filipina lesbian domestic workers in Hong Kong, the current research investigates how their lesbian practices intricately relate to their social position in the Philippines and in Hong Kong, as well as the Filipino concept of gender and sexuality. As independent wage workers, these Filipinas enjoy elevated status at home while familial control decreases with distance. In the work destination, which offers better protection towards personal autonomy, the level of societal surveillance they face is further limited with their non-integration into the host society. Hence, their positions at both societies help shield them from tight social control, allowing them to practice homosexuality with relative ease.
This ethnographic study thus affirms the liberating effects of migration for opening up new sexual / gender possibilities: as well as engaging in same-sex relationships for the first time, some of these Filipina FDWs assume masculine identities only after coming to Hong Kong. Yet, the assumption of new gender identity runs contrary to the Filipino concept of gender, which privileges on a persistent inner self. Novice tomboys, therefore, often suffer much from social stigma as the change in gender identity is even more inexplicable to the Filipinas than a change in sexual orientation.
This current research meanwhile documents the performances of masculinity and femininity by these lesbian Filipina FDWs. While observing the significance of gender role-playing in Filipina lesbian relationships, this thesis highlights the presence of a more balanced mix of masculinities and femininities in both butches and femmes. Findings of the present study thus repudiate the dichotomous divides between masculinity and femininity; heterosexuality and homosexuality.
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Lee, Yuk Yin.
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2013.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 146-152).
Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web.
Abstracts also in Chinese.
Acknowledgement --- p.4
Abstract --- p.6
Chapter Chapter One --- Introduction --- p.8
Research Goal Statement --- p.9
Overview --- p.10
Literature Review --- p.16
Theoretical Framework --- p.28
Research Method --- p.36
The Structure of this Thesis --- p.46
Chapter Chapter Two --- In-Between Hong Kong and the Philippines --- p.48
The Distant Host City --- p.49
Stranger in the Family --- p.56
Liberal Structure of Hong Kong --- p.62
The Need for Love --- p.64
Parental Acceptance in the Philippines --- p.67
Conclusion --- p.71
Chapter Chapter Three --- Gender Identities --- p.73
Conceptualization --- p.73
Gender Identities --- p.79
Butch Role-Playing --- p.80
Femme Role-Playing --- p.96
Conclusion --- p.104
Chapter Chapter Four --- Tomboy Negotiations --- p.107
Sexual Identities --- p.108
Procreation --- p.117
Sexual Gratification --- p.121
Un-masculine Gender Behaviour --- p.125
Conclusion --- p.129
Chapter Chapter Five --- Conclusion --- p.133
Significance of the Study --- p.133
Summary --- p.134
Main Findings --- p.142
Recommendations --- p.144
References and Bibliography --- p.147

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