They Think We are Just Caregivers

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

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2174584
AutoresMegha Amrith (0000-0003-4662-5797, Max Planck Society, autor correspondente)
Ano2010
Volume11
Fascículo3-4
Páginas410-427
Data de publicação2010-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCanberra Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0314-9099 • E-ISSN: 1740-9314
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14442213.2010.511631
OpenAlexW2090003709
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13
Referências 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