Introduction : Filipina migrants and the force of domesticity -- Gender ideologies in the Philippines -- Patriarchy and neoliberalism in the globalization of care -- Gender and communication in transnational migrant families -- The place and placelessness of migrant Filipina domestic workers --...

"Studies on free trade zones (FTZ) work contend that employment at transnational factories does not empower women in the long term. While I agreed that the economic and social power attained seem to diminish once women stop working, I wondered what happened to the oppositional consciousness, new...