{"product_id":"the-filipino-welfare-regime-and-the-dilemma-behind-female-migration-von-luca-kaiser","title":"The Filipino Welfare Regime and the Dilemma behind Female Migration","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Social Studies (General), grade: 1,0 (A+), , language: English, abstract: A \"welfare regime\" refers to different sets of institutional arrangements governing welfare and its stratification effects. Different categories of a country¿s population can experience different welfare regimes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis paper analyses the Filipino welfare regime with regard to female labor migration, which, in terms of its scope and importance for the Filipino economy, is unique. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking Wood and Gough¿s (2006) framework for welfare regimes and the notion that any kind of welfare outcomes are created within the sphere of the welfare mix, the paper explores the interrelation of institutional conditions and different systems of the welfare mix and its implications on the welfare of female migrants and their kinship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis framework extends the fundamental ideas of the welfare mix to the phenomenon of female migration in the Philippines which allows for the exhibition of failures of the Filipino welfare regime and illustrates how these failures preserve female labor migration, negatively affecting the subjective wellbeing of Filipina migrants and their relatives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe focus lies on female migrants engaged in domestic work not only due to its rampant extent in the Philippines but also due to the fact that, based on the global gender division of labor, the feminization of caregiving has crucial implications on social welfare regimes and societies¿ wellbeing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDomestic work is one of the main sources of labor export and constitutes other major female migration occupational groups such as cooks, caregivers, and nurses, which are often only distinguished in the sending country but are diluted in recipient countries where the task of domestic work includes most of these tasks, independent of the employment status. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNonetheless, to a large extent, the findings of this paper could generally be extended to other Filipino migrants in low-skill occupations as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783668028050\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783668028050","offer_id":39442050908253,"sku":"9783668028050","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/a563bc13-cbc8-4c51-bec9-f48f11ad0a48.jpg?v=1778215534","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/the-filipino-welfare-regime-and-the-dilemma-behind-female-migration-von-luca-kaiser","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}