跨越國界的生命地圖：菲籍家務移工的流動與認同

本研究透過田野觀察與深入訪談的方式，探討菲律賓籍女性家務移工之跨國流動與階級認同。本文首先說明，菲律賓大量勞力移駐海外的政經脈絡，是與殖民背景、性別關係等社會文化因素密切連結。其次，我探討中產階級背景的菲籍海外勞工，面從事低技術、污名化的海外家務工作時，要如何因應衝突的階級流動，並在日常生活中協商自我的身分認同。我發現她們透過社會空間的前後台區隔（工作日vs．放假日；母國vs．地主國）、隔離進行的勞動與消費活動、以及不同的時間向度（現在vs．未來），來形塑多重的角色扮演與流動的主體認同。 Based on ethnographic observations and in-depth interviews, this article explores the transnational migration and class identification of Filipina migrant domestic workers. First, I argue that the economic motivation to work abroad is mediated by social and cultural factors such as the colonial legacy and gender relations in the Philippines. Second, I examine how Filipina migrant workers with a previous middle-class background deal with their contradictory class mobility, when taking on low-skilled, stigmatized domestic work. I found that they perform multiple roles and shifting identities through the front/backstage segregation in social space (working days vs. rest day; home country vs. host country) and the differentiation of temporal horizons (now vs. future).