They Think We are Just Caregivers

The Ambivalence of Care in the Lives of Filipino Medical Workers in Singapore

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2174584
AutoresMegha Amrith (0000-0003-4662-5797, Max Planck Society, autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen11
Número3-4
Páginas410-427
Fecha de publicación2010-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCanberra Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0314-9099 • E-ISSN: 1740-9314
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14442213.2010.511631
OpenAlexW2090003709
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas21

Notions of care have multiple inflections in the lives of Filipino medical workers in Singapore. The present paper explores ethnographically how Filipino migrants narrate and experience ambivalent notions of care as they move across borders. Their labour is fraught with ambiguity as they distance themselves from ideas of care in their working lives. They position themselves as professionals and attempt to shed the long-standing associations of Filipinos as ‘unskilled’ care labour in the global economy and the feelings of shame ‘care’ evokes. However, discussions of care are at the heart of their narratives on the forms of sociality they have left behind in the Philippines and on their notions of how one ought to live in the world with others

Ambiguity · Ambivalence · Care work · Feeling · Medical care · Narrative · Shame · Sociality · Sociology · Gender Studies · Medicine · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Nursing · Psychology · Social Psychology · Socioeconomic Development in Asia