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Representing Violence Against Overseas Contract Workers

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ID12435581
AuthorsAnne‐marie Hilsdon (Curtin University, corresponding author), Anne-Marie Hilsdon (Curtin University)
Year2003
Volume9
Issue6
Pages698-722
Publication date2003-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueViolence Against Women (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1077-8012 • E-ISSN: 1552-8448
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1077801203009006005
OpenAlexW2171464333
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited18

This article explores the case of Flor Contemplacion, a Filipino domestic worker in Singapore who was sentenced to death in 1995 for the supposed murder of a young boy. The totally different versions of the case presented by the media, especially the Singapore and Philippine presses, are explored. Violence against overseas domestic workers has long been acknowledged in sociological research. However, previous media analyses of the Contemplacion case have not addressed such violence. Here, negotiation of gender discourse in media meanings of violence with respect to the Contemplacion case is presented, thereby bringing a different approach to media and cultural analysis of the case, and contributing more generally to the dearth of media analyses of gender and violence. The article endeavors to show how media and nationalist discourses are inextricably interwoven and felt politically in the lives of Contemplacion, the other individuals involved, other overseas domestic contract workers in Singapore and their employers, and media audiences

Criminology · Domestic violence · Media coverage · Media studies · Medical emergency · Nationalism · Negotiation · Poison control · Political science · Politics · Popular media · Social science · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Asian Studies and History · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Law · Medicine · Socioeconomic Development in Asia

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