On Gendered Journeys, Spiritual Transformations and Ethical Formations in Diaspora
Filipina Care Workers in Israel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3946406 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Claudia Liebelt (0000-0002-3131-6628, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 97 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 74-91 |
| Publication date | 2011-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/fr.2010.32 |
| OpenAlex | W1989433497 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 32 |
Research on migrant care and domestic workers has focused on their multiple dislocations and exclusions in the diaspora, analysing a highly gendered global economy of care and domestic work. This article investigates the role of ritual performance and spirituality in female care workers' projects of migration and in the emergence of their feminized and racialized subjectivities. On the basis of anthropological research in Israel and the Philippines, it analyses Filipina care workers' narratives of migration to Israel as a form of spiritual transformation, investigating their spiritual practices and emphasis on Christian morals like 'compassion' and 'patience' for their work. Israel, a country that has recruited Filipinos as carers for the elderly since the 1990s, is a destination country highly valued among Filipino Christians as the 'Holy Land'. Focusing on evangelical Christians, the article portrays four women for whom migration to Israel signifies an ethical career: turning into 'Holy Land' pilgrims, Christ-like activists and missionaries, they are engaged in a deeply self-transforming journey. Rooting themselves in Christian spiritualities and morals, these women negotiate and 'inhabit' rather than openly challenge existing gender norms. Engaged in corporeal disciplining of their selves during affectively demanding care work, and in migration more generally, their moves are analysed as a form of ethical formation
Care work · Compassion · Diaspora · Ethics of care · Negotiation · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Spiritual care · Spiritualities · Spirituality · Work (physics) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Moralized Mobilities. A Multi-scalar Analysis of the Role of Religion in Migrant Care Work
Role of Religion in the Lives, Agency, and Activism of Domestic Worker Leaders
The governance of the Kafala system and the punitive control of migrant domestic workers
She’s Like Family’
On Global Happenings in the Name of Jesus, Rubbing Shoulders with ‘VIPs’ and Domestic Work in the ‘Holy Land’
Rituals and Embodiment
Mission and Migration
Doing the Dirty Work?
Empire of Care
After Heaven
The Managed Heart
Language, Charisma, and Creativity
The Globalisation of Charismatic Christianity
Migration, Domestic Work and Affect
Power and difference
Made in the Philippines
Caring for the 'Holy Land'
Negotiating Citizenship
Gender and Migration in Southern Europe
The Next Christendom
Children of Global Migration
The Managed Heart
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Politics of Piety
Virtuous Citizenship”
Frustrated and displaced
Walls of Silence and Late Twentieth Century Representations of the Foreign Female Domestic Worker
Negotiating Public Space
Teachers and ‘New Evangelizers’ for their Faith
From Registered Nurse to Registered Nanny
Sending Dollars Shows Feeling' - Emotions and Economies in Filipino Migration
Negotiating Citizenship
Spirituality in Modern Society
Transnational Migration to Israel in Global Comparative Context
Pasyon and Revolution. Popular Movements in the Philippines, 1840-1910
Maid Or Madam? Filipina Migrant Workers and the Continuity of Domestic Labor
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,47 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |