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This paper is aimed to review the patterns of Filipino women migrant
domestic worker’s movement as first hires to the other countries within East
Asia region. The paper is based on the data collected from the annual official
records maintained by and taken from online data base of the Philippines
Overseas Employment Administration. The major contribution of the paper
is that with the help of data analysis it has established a typology of the four
categories of the countries in East Asian region according to the number of
Filipino women migrant domestic workers each of these countries received.
The first category of country included Hong Kong as a country receiving
more than tens of thousands of the women domestic workers from
Philippines. Second category includes Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Brunei,
and Japan as countries receiving few thousand to few hundreds of the women
domestic workers from Philippines. Third category including South Korea,
China, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, North Korea, and East
Timor as countries receiving less than hundred women domestic workers.
Fourth category includes Mayanmar and Laos as countries not receiving any
women throughout the period as shown in official record. The overall trend
of Filipino women migrant domestic workers migrating within East Asian
region is declining.
Dr. Naima Tabassum, Huma Tabassum, Tabassum Afzal. (2015) FLOW OF FILIPINO WOMEN MIGRANT DOMESTIC WORKERS WITHIN EAST ASIAN REGION, Asia Pacific, Vol-33, Issue 1.
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