Filipino Women Workers in Saudi
Making Offerings for the Here and Now and Hereafter
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2174592 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alicia Pingol (Schlumberger (Ireland), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 394-409 |
| Publication date | 2010-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canberra Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0314-9099 • E-ISSN: 1740-9314 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14442213.2010.516271 |
| OpenAlex | W2021924577 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 8 |
Pinay (Filipina) migrant workers in Saudi Arabia are finding ways to reclaim their selves through their exercise of womanhood. They live and work in an environment in which women, although veiled, cry for protection beneath the regulation of their bodies. The present paper focuses on women migrants married according to Islamic law, which accords them protection and confinement. As Muslim wives they are privileged, yet also more vulnerable to shame. Their condition is rendered more fragile in that they are not in their own country. Although their bodies are their own to rule, they inevitably bear the brunt of institutional restriction. Although deployed as docile bodies, they can try to be agents of their own emancipation
Criminology · Emancipation · Islam · Political science · Politics · Shame · Sociology · Work (physics) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Engineering · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,31 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2019 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |