Paradise Betrayed: Investigating the Plights of Female Domestic Workers in Two Contemporary Plays

บทความในวารสาร

ผู้เขียน/บรรณาธิการ

กลุ่มสาขาการวิจัยเชิงกลยุทธ์

ไม่พบข้อมูลที่เกี่ยวข้อง

รายละเอียดสำหรับงานพิมพ์

รายชื่อผู้แต่ง: Bunsom, T.

ปีที่เผยแพร่ (ค.ศ.): 2014

วารสาร: วารสารศิลปศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยอุบลราชธานี (1686-5596)

Volume number: 10

Issue number: 2

หน้าแรก: 1

หน้าสุดท้าย: 16

นอก: 1686-5596

บทคัดย่อ

According to Yeoh and Huang (2000), the advent of globalization and the attempt to sustain economic strength of world cities unavoidably result in the reliance on foreign workers. Driven by constant economic instability of their own countries, a lot of women from the Philippines and Indonesia have been looking for employment abroad. This economic migration, however, has not always brought them wealth as some may have expected. Reports of abuse and maltreatment of female workers are not difficult to find. Contemporary authors in Southeast Asia have included the unfortunate stories of these women in their writings. In this study, two contemporary plays from the Philippines and Singapore are analysed in terms of the plights of female domestic workers. In Paulino Lim, Jr.’s M้nage Filipinescas (2008), Melissa, an email-order bride in California, is portrayed more as a maid and a prostitute solely subject to the mercy of her husband

คำสำคัญ

female domestic workers, plights, contemporary plays, M้nage Filipinescas, Model Citizens