ABSTRACT
In the past twenty years, Filipinos have become synonymous with the care industry across the world. Maid, nanny, waiter, cook, nurse, janitor, clerk, entertainer, prostitute . . . the list of occupational roles played by Filipinos in the transnational labor market goes on and on like a painful litany of expendable characters. Indeed, Filipinos are the pawns in the game of global restructuring of capital as they constitute one of the most visible and geographically expansive flows of flexible labor.
