Turning Tides

Philippine American Literature in the Time of Diaspora The novice Brent Hayes Edwards writes that the word diaspora has its origins with the dispersal of Jewish communities during the classic period. Diaspora refers to the scattering or banishment of a people and is associated with a sense of violence, suffering, and punishment.[i] The contemporary phrase Filipino diaspora is haunted by these histories of violence and suffering. In 2009, The Guardian published the story of a young Filipina in Jordan named Jenny Perez who was thrown quatern stories to her terminal by her employer. Jennifers father says his daughter was treated like a slave. In August 2010, The New York Times published photographs of much than 200 Filipina domestic workers sleeping in a cramp room in the Philippine Embassy in Kuwait. These Filipina migrant workers had escape their abusive employees and were seeking refuge in the Embassy. In October 2010, the watchword of a newborn baby dumped in the trash bin of a Manila-bound airplane revealed that the infants Filipino mother had been sexually abused by her employer and gave birth to the abandoned baby piece on the plane.

In the critically acclaimed feature film ship of the line (2007), enjoin by the Israeli filmmaker Etgar Keret, we meet iv modern women living in contemporary Tel Aviv. One of the four protagonists is a Filipina guest worker who cares for an elderly racist Israeli woman who is lonely and unloved by her only daughter while she herself is thousands of miles from her own family that loves and misses her dearly. The experience of migrant work is as difficult for Filipino men. The documentary film Paper Dolls (2006), directed by gay Israeli filmmaker Tomer Heymann, chronicles the lives of five Filipino transvestites who are caregivers for elderly orthodox Jewish men by day, and are drag performers by night. The documentary shows the indignities, loneliness and day-to-day struggles of Filipino... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com

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