Despite a considerable amount of research conducted on Asian labor
migration, decidedly little attention has focused on the vulnerability and
exploitation of women overseas contract workers. This article examines
how the social construction of gender influences the migration of Filipina
overseas workers and contributes to the increased vulnerability and exploitation
of women migrants. In particular, direct and indirect socialization
processes, as well as gendered and racial stereotypes, are manifest
within the labor recruitment process, helping to channel women migrants
into the domestic services and entertainment sectors of this migration flow.