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 --...

Part I. The context -- Key concepts in stepwise international labor migration -- Origin stories -- Global but uneven : the market for migrant domestic workers -- Part II. The actors -- Stepwise journeys, compared, and contrasted -- The world according to migrant domestic workers -- Inside the...

Language and transnational domestic workers -- The making of "workers of the world": language and the labor brokerage state -- Assembling the "supermaid": language and communication skills for "vulnerable occupations" -- Marketing domestic workers: maid agencies in Singapore -- The...