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Middle-class Chinese women in the global city of Hong Kong have entered the workforce in unprecedented numbers over the past three decades, and the demand for foreign domestic workers has soared. A decade ago some foretold the decline in foreign workers and the influx of mainland workers. But today over 120,000 women from the Philippines, over 90,000 from Indonesia, and thousands more from other parts of South and Southeast Asia serve as maids on two-year contracts in Hong Kong, sending much needed remittances to their families abroad. Nicole Constable tells their story by updating Maid to Order in Hong Kong with a focus on the major changes that have taken place since Hong Kong's reunification with mainland China in 1997, the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, and the outbreak of SARS in 2002-2003. Interweaving her analysis with the women's individual stories, she shows how power is expressed in the day-to-day lives of Filipina domestic workers and more-recent Indonesian arrivals.
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"People interested in Hong Kong have discussed the `Filipina maid issue' and waited for someone to do a serious study. This book is such a study. Its audience, however, will certainly go beyond students of Hong Kong and the Philippines. Those interested in domestic workers, labor migrations, and questions of labor discipline will find this book relevant to their own work."--Rubie Watson, Harvard University
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"The interest of this particular work goes way beyond the geographical area upon which Constable focuses, even though it is of course a must read for students of the Philippines and of Hong Kong. Perhaps Constable's greatest achievement resides in her ability to let different, at times disharmonious, voices be heard. Filipina workers do not speak in union of course and Constable succeeds in conveying the tormented complexity of each situation to her readers, because she is a superb ethnographer who is sensitive to nuances and subtleties in the lives of these Filipina workers for whom empowerment and oppression remain inextricably intertwined."--Jean-Paul Dumont, George Mason University (Anthropology)
Nicole Constable is Professor of Anthropology, Research Professor, and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of Romance on a Global Stage, Cross-Border Marriages, Guest People: Hakka Identity in China and Abroad, and Christian Souls and Chinese Spirits.
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- Publication date2007
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