フィリピン人移住家事労働者の帰還と再統合をめぐる政治

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This paper discusses the problems faced by women migrants when they return to their place of origin by analyzing a case of Filipina migrant domestic workers who joined a “reintegration program” organized by a non-governmental organization (NGO) in Hong Kong. The return of women migrants is a consequence of various forms of negotiations among four main stakeholders: women migrants themselves, their families in the Philippines, NGOs, and the Philippine government. This paper focuses on the ways which women migrants distribute their economic resources accumulated through migratory labor to their household members. Such distribution is analyzed at two levels: at the “family” level which serves as an apparatus where existing gender ideology functions and the level of “transnational household” which functions to spend income transferred from the migrant women. Interviews with Filipina domestic workers highlight the differences in forms of return among cooperative savings group members. Factors which affect the degree of women’s involvement to the group include the length of stay overseas, their commitment to achieve life cycle events, and the relationship with their families in the Philippines.