Foreign domestic workers in Singapore

Asian Pac Migr J. 1996;5(1):117-38. doi: 10.1177/011719689600500106.

Abstract

"This paper discusses the regulatory and economic context of Filipina migration into domestic waged labor in Singapore. It places this migration in the history of female rural-urban migration as well as the history of domestic labor in Singapore. Finally, it raises the question as to why domestic waged labor has persisted in the global capitalist economy."

MeSH terms

  • Asia
  • Asia, Southeastern
  • Demography
  • Developing Countries
  • Economics
  • Emigration and Immigration*
  • Health Workforce*
  • Philippines
  • Population
  • Population Dynamics
  • Public Policy*
  • Singapore
  • Transients and Migrants*