Legal Servitude and Free Illegality. I didn't know what to expect from this chapter, but Pei-Chia Lan kept me engaged for the entire chapter. I really liked how well written this chapter was. I appreciated Lan's word choice throughout her work. The language demonstrated just how submissive live-in workers had to be with their employers. Also, it really helped that Lan used an anecdote at the beginning of the chapter because it helped connect the material to a real-world story. Throughout the chapter, I couldn't help but feel bad for the live-in workers. Despite there being efforts to negate the problems of exploitation and abuse, the legal system built for these overseas workers still doesn't do much to benefit them. I find it interesting how being an undocumented worker seems to come with more benefits than a legal worker. I remember learning about overseas Filipino workers last year in ASA 2. Do you think the glorification of overseas workers perpetuates this culture of abuse with live-in workers? I think it kind of does. It promotes citizens to work abroad and when they get there, they find terrible working conditions. I think what this chapter taught me is that the system abuses the work of the poor while benefiting the employer and the company that contracts the workers.
Source
Pei-Chia Lan, "Legal Servitude and Free Illegality: Migrant "Guest" Workers in Taiwan."
http://aseanews.net/2018/02/27/cartoon-editorials-where-is-the-punishment-by-the-philippine-star-tuesday-february-27-2018/
Pei-Chia Lan, “Legal Servitude and Free Illegality: Migrant “Guest” Workers in Taiwan.”
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