Modern Heroes, Modern Slaves? Listening to migrant domestic workers’ everyday temporalities
This essay draws on multi-sited, performance art-led research with Filipinx migrant domestic workers in the UK and Lebanon. It explores a dichotomy at work in the portrayal of some workers as bagong bayani or ‘modern heroes’—a phrase coined by then Philippine president Corazon Aquino—and as ‘modern...
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| Language: | English |
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Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women
2020-09-01
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| Series: | Anti-Trafficking Review |
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| Online Access: | https://www.antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/atrjournal/article/view/489 |