Permanent and transitional guest workers: Variations of partial citizenship among migrant filipina domestic workers in the diaspora

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Abstract

This chapter revisits the concept of partial citizenship for migrant domestic workers, meaning their stunted incorporation as members of host and home societies. It further qualifies the experience of partial citizenship by focusing on the dynamic engendered by their conditional membership based on employer sponsorship. Host societies often limit the citizenship of migrant domestic workers by binding them to work only for their sponsors. At the same time, the experience of sponsored migrants varies across the diaspora between domestic workers who can transition out of employer sponsorship to permanent residency and those who are perpetually bound to temporary status. Illustrating variations of partial citizenship establishes differences in citizenship for migrant domestic workers across destinations.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationRace, Ethnicity and Welfare States
Subtitle of host publicationAn American Dilemma?
PublisherEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
Pages205-226
Number of pages22
ISBN (Electronic)9781784715373
ISBN (Print)9781784715366
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2015
Externally publishedYes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Social Sciences

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