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東京フィリピン研究会月例会　http://www.d1.dion.ne.jp/~zmackey/

●タイトル：“Transcending Dislocations: The Case of Filipina Domestic Workers in Tokyo”
●発表者：ブレンダ・テネグラ（お茶の水大学大学院博士課程）
●日　 時：2005年１１月２６日（土曜日）　１５：００～１７：００
●会　 場：明治大学駿河台校舎リバティータワー３階　1031教室
　　　　　　所在地　〒101-8301　東京都千代田区神田駿河台1-1
　　　　　　http://www.meiji.ac.jp/campus/suruga.html
●要旨：
　　　Foreign female migrants have certain common features in Japan. Whether legally or illegally employed, they tend to be concentrated at gender specific places, which have been mainly associated with “international marriages”, “women trafficking”, and “entertainment”. But given the striking number of migrant women who find themselves deployed in the sex-related services and entertainment industry, other movement of women is isregarded in immigration studies.
　　　While it is true that Japan does not allow employment of foreign domestic
workers in Japanese homes (as cited in Momsen ed., 1999:8), foreign domestic workers have long been present in Japan. The hiring of foreign domestic workers into Japan has become a normative and indispensable component in the mobility of the so-called ‘transnational global elites’ and their households. Foreign domestic workers entered Japan under a concession which makes it possible for foreign expatriates or transnational corporation executives to “import” a relatively poor foreign national into Japan. These transnational arrangements indicate new glaring inequalities formed. For one, political systems can only represent and valorize corporate actors ? the transnational global elites ? as participants in the transnational geography. Foreign women domestic workers are the ‘dislocated’ actors and are predisposed to experience the adverse effects of multiple inequities arising from their status as ‘women’, as ‘foreigner’ and as ‘domestic worker’ in the host country. This is exacerbated by the constructions of femininity and masculinity prevalent in international labor migration, forcing this feminized sector to experience a higher propensity of legal, economic, and social exclusions.
　　　Drawing upon the case of Filipino women domestic workers in Tokyo, I will re/examine “domestic work”, underscoring why this job remains informal and unregulated despite its growing importance as a globally ‘needed labor’ (but not marked as such). Then, I will explore and examine how Filipino women domestic workers situate themselves within the constraints of their dislocated status at the destination area, and will illustrate how they strategize and pull their own available resources ? including personal networks ? to disentangle themselves from the precarious situations that define their work. I will highlight the socio-economic aspects that are maintained, renewed, and reconstituted between women migrants and their personal networks.

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