Negotiating "Contradictory Class Mobility" Experience: Three Typologies in the Case of Filipina and Filipino Migrant Domestic Workers in Germany

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  • 「矛盾した階級移動」をめぐる3つの交渉の類型 : 在独フィリピン人移動家事労働者の事例から
  • ムジュン シタ カイキュウ イドウ オ メグル 3ツ ノ コウショウ ノ ルイケイ ザイドクフィリピンジン イドウ カジ ロウドウシャ ノ ジレイ カラ

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The author examines how “contradictory class mobility”is experienced by Filipina/Filipino live-out cleaners as well as live-in care providers and housekeepers in Germany, drawing from biographical interviews. This paper further identifies three typologies of negotiation strategies of this experience in relation to employers, developed by some domestics. The first typology is direct confrontation with an attempt to restructure the power relationship with his white, female employer, showing the male subject of resistance. The second typology suggests indirect negotiation found in a live-in domestic,who draws on the affection from the children as a social mother and the trust from her employers. Direct negotiation is the third typology emerging from her identity as a professional service provider that a live -out cleaner has established. The author argues that these different negotiation strategies reflect the complexity predicated on gender norms,race,and the domestics' ir/regular immigration status as well as work arrangement.

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