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In summer 2000, about 160 women students, scientists and professionals from all over the world ga... more In summer 2000, about 160 women students, scientists and professionals from all over the world gathered at the University of Hamburg to join in the International Women´s University, Project Area Information. The articles in this book report on the ongoing work and the results obtained in this unique setting, which allowed for creativity and for a world-wide cooperation and exchange of views amongst women. The program was oriented mainly towards the idea of information as a social resource. It aimed to bring out women´s perspectives on understanding information and on exploring how to develop information for human needs. The focus was on how modern information and communication technologies interact with and radically change traditional ways of dealing with information, thus giving rise to information societies rooted in different cultures. Information societies come with new challenges and opportunities for women. Engaging actively and taking advantage of the technology, therefore, can be seen as a way of empowerment. The book brings out how building international learning communities opens the way to meet the challenges ahead: gendering information technology; enhancing communication; supporting cooperative, interactive learning; networking for community development; and fostering democracy.
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The Migrant Maternal: Birthing New Lives Abroad, 2016
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International Development: A Global Perspective on Theory and Practice, 2017
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Kritika Kultura, 2016
Through the lens of culture intersecting with gender, race and class, this monograph looks at the... more Through the lens of culture intersecting with gender, race and class, this monograph looks at the reconfiguration of skilled worker identity of 20 Philippines-born women who have
immigrated to Australia. Through interviews and analyses of their lived experiences, it attempts to comprehend the complexity of their unemployment, from their encounter with
the labor market, to their attempts in breaking into the workforce. It contextualizes the institutional disadvantages and discrimination befalling migrant women of non-English
speaking background, as well as housework and mothering responsibilities they continue to resist at home. The complex interaction of the women’s higher education, English
language proficiency, their sense of purpose and other personal resources—all assisted in reframing their subordinated identity, and recapturing their careers. The women risked taking jobs lower than their qualifications, took further studies, went through rigorous accreditation, and acquired local experience, as stepping stones to regain their professions and subsequently their middle-class status. Their journey, however, is not without severe difficulties. By using agency and privilege, this monograph argues that the women
epitomized the classical modernist ideology of the self within a capitalist system. They were aware of structural disadvantages and discriminatory practices, but they found ways of
working within these limitations, which results to masking the hardships they endured. The study debunks the effectiveness of the notion that individual’s capacity over the state “to
enterprise themselves” is a success strategy.
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Gender, Place & Culture, 2016
This article analyses how professional Filipinas in Melbourne negotiate housework with their part... more This article analyses how professional Filipinas in Melbourne negotiate housework with their partners in the absence of the domestic workers they were accustomed to in the Philippines. To some extent, the absence of maids revealed the informants’ escape from classism and sexism. I argue that as a result of the women’s persistent strategising, household work division did eventually become more egalitarian although variously insufficient to be able to relieve them from extreme stress. The women’s ambitions and career demands were important drivers in renegotiating the domestic realm. Yet the slow change towards gender egalitarianism is seen as a response to changed circumstances rather than to commitment to ideals of gender equity.
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Journal of Workplace Rights, 2013
This article shows how skilled immigrant Filipinas resist gender and
racial prejudices in Austra... more This article shows how skilled immigrant Filipinas resist gender and
racial prejudices in Australian workplaces. By activating their rights, they
reassert their multiple identities as Filipina immigrants, Australian citizens,
and skilled workers, although many agonise for a long time before seeking
redress. Experiences of discrimination affect them in various ways, ranging
from stalled career progression to negative effects on their self-esteem and
psychological well-being. For many, workplace prejudices have made them
more aware of their cultural difference from the majority population; but
for others, their health and esteem have been so dented that they have resigned
from their jobs. Looking through the lenses of gender, race, and class intersectionality,
this article also explores the ramifications of the stigmatisation
of Filipinas as mail-order brides in the workplace, and, to some extent, in
Filipino immigrants’ social circles.
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ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 2013
This paper surveys the diverse motives of professional Filipino immigrant women in Melbourne, Aus... more This paper surveys the diverse motives of professional Filipino immigrant women in Melbourne, Australia. In-depth interviews of 20 women reveal that their mosaic of motives challenges the traditional notion of economic advancement framed within the household theory, or ideas of purely individualistic pursuits. Their movements were facilitated through the intersection of established families and social networks in Australia, and the possession of skills required by the immigration department, defying the mail order bride stereotype that was projected on almost all Filipino women in the 1980s. It is argued that migration provided a bridge to more liberating quality of life, enabling them either to recover their declining middle-class status in the Philippines or to explore an alternative lifestyle in the new context.
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Feminist Challenges in the Information Age, 2002
People’s empowerment relies strongly on their right to self-determination, as individuals and in ... more People’s empowerment relies strongly on their right to self-determination, as individuals and in groups of their choice. As a democratic right, citizenship is made up of political, civil, cultural and economic dimensions, which need to be fulfilled in order for full political participation to be possible. This chapter investigates understandings of citizenship among participants at ifu, which were examined by the project group Visions of Citizenship. It indicates how even relatively privileged women from a variety of countries are limited in their practice of full citizenship rights by formal and informal constraints.
On the basis of an historical and conceptual survey of the concept of citizenship, the project utilized questionnaire survey and focus group interview techniques to gain an understanding of citizenship in the context of women’s experiences in their own countries. Mechanisms were identified in which information and information technologies assist as well as hinder women from pursuing democratic participation. Women’s preferences of traditional and new information technologies, and their means of optimization to generate greater political participation, are taken as offering grounds for new visions of alternative citizenship to germinate.
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10th International Anti-Corruption Conference
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International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2010
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Interview with SBS Radio Filipino Channel (Melbourne,) aired on 14 March 2014.
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Training experience in the Thai Burma Border and Cambodia showcasing the "River of Change" as an ... more Training experience in the Thai Burma Border and Cambodia showcasing the "River of Change" as an alternative planning, monitoring & evaluation participatory approach. See complete blog in http://www.iwda.org.au/2013/02/11/living-in-the-river-of-change/
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immigrated to Australia. Through interviews and analyses of their lived experiences, it attempts to comprehend the complexity of their unemployment, from their encounter with
the labor market, to their attempts in breaking into the workforce. It contextualizes the institutional disadvantages and discrimination befalling migrant women of non-English
speaking background, as well as housework and mothering responsibilities they continue to resist at home. The complex interaction of the women’s higher education, English
language proficiency, their sense of purpose and other personal resources—all assisted in reframing their subordinated identity, and recapturing their careers. The women risked taking jobs lower than their qualifications, took further studies, went through rigorous accreditation, and acquired local experience, as stepping stones to regain their professions and subsequently their middle-class status. Their journey, however, is not without severe difficulties. By using agency and privilege, this monograph argues that the women
epitomized the classical modernist ideology of the self within a capitalist system. They were aware of structural disadvantages and discriminatory practices, but they found ways of
working within these limitations, which results to masking the hardships they endured. The study debunks the effectiveness of the notion that individual’s capacity over the state “to
enterprise themselves” is a success strategy.
racial prejudices in Australian workplaces. By activating their rights, they
reassert their multiple identities as Filipina immigrants, Australian citizens,
and skilled workers, although many agonise for a long time before seeking
redress. Experiences of discrimination affect them in various ways, ranging
from stalled career progression to negative effects on their self-esteem and
psychological well-being. For many, workplace prejudices have made them
more aware of their cultural difference from the majority population; but
for others, their health and esteem have been so dented that they have resigned
from their jobs. Looking through the lenses of gender, race, and class intersectionality,
this article also explores the ramifications of the stigmatisation
of Filipinas as mail-order brides in the workplace, and, to some extent, in
Filipino immigrants’ social circles.
On the basis of an historical and conceptual survey of the concept of citizenship, the project utilized questionnaire survey and focus group interview techniques to gain an understanding of citizenship in the context of women’s experiences in their own countries. Mechanisms were identified in which information and information technologies assist as well as hinder women from pursuing democratic participation. Women’s preferences of traditional and new information technologies, and their means of optimization to generate greater political participation, are taken as offering grounds for new visions of alternative citizenship to germinate.
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immigrated to Australia. Through interviews and analyses of their lived experiences, it attempts to comprehend the complexity of their unemployment, from their encounter with
the labor market, to their attempts in breaking into the workforce. It contextualizes the institutional disadvantages and discrimination befalling migrant women of non-English
speaking background, as well as housework and mothering responsibilities they continue to resist at home. The complex interaction of the women’s higher education, English
language proficiency, their sense of purpose and other personal resources—all assisted in reframing their subordinated identity, and recapturing their careers. The women risked taking jobs lower than their qualifications, took further studies, went through rigorous accreditation, and acquired local experience, as stepping stones to regain their professions and subsequently their middle-class status. Their journey, however, is not without severe difficulties. By using agency and privilege, this monograph argues that the women
epitomized the classical modernist ideology of the self within a capitalist system. They were aware of structural disadvantages and discriminatory practices, but they found ways of
working within these limitations, which results to masking the hardships they endured. The study debunks the effectiveness of the notion that individual’s capacity over the state “to
enterprise themselves” is a success strategy.
racial prejudices in Australian workplaces. By activating their rights, they
reassert their multiple identities as Filipina immigrants, Australian citizens,
and skilled workers, although many agonise for a long time before seeking
redress. Experiences of discrimination affect them in various ways, ranging
from stalled career progression to negative effects on their self-esteem and
psychological well-being. For many, workplace prejudices have made them
more aware of their cultural difference from the majority population; but
for others, their health and esteem have been so dented that they have resigned
from their jobs. Looking through the lenses of gender, race, and class intersectionality,
this article also explores the ramifications of the stigmatisation
of Filipinas as mail-order brides in the workplace, and, to some extent, in
Filipino immigrants’ social circles.
On the basis of an historical and conceptual survey of the concept of citizenship, the project utilized questionnaire survey and focus group interview techniques to gain an understanding of citizenship in the context of women’s experiences in their own countries. Mechanisms were identified in which information and information technologies assist as well as hinder women from pursuing democratic participation. Women’s preferences of traditional and new information technologies, and their means of optimization to generate greater political participation, are taken as offering grounds for new visions of alternative citizenship to germinate.