時間｜12/28 週三 15:00-17:00
地點｜清華大學人文社會學院C304（不需預先報名，歡迎踴躍參與！）

講者介紹｜陳如珍，香港中文大學人類學系講師。研究對象包括中國民工與香港外籍家務傭工，研究興趣是移民的經驗對女性與母職的影響。

Ju-chen Chen (juchen@cuhk.edu.hk) is a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research covers migrant workers (mingong) in China and foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong. She is particularly interested in exploring relationships between the experiences of migration and the realization of motherhood and womanhood.
關於演講｜香港的外籍家務傭工往往被香港社會當作是可疑的、充滿負面形象的外人。儘管家務傭工的背景和願望各不相同，他們來香港的動機往往一律被簡化成「就是為了賺錢寄回家」。

田野研究顯示，在多數外傭放假的星期天，他們其實有著滿滿的行程：處理個人雜務之外還要參與各種組織會議、生日派對、教會的自願者工作、體育賽事、以及選美會等等。活動琳琅滿目。

這次的演講想要處理一個謎題：為什麼在一星期的忙碌之後，菲律賓籍家務傭工不在星期天（休息日）好好喘口氣，反而全心投入既費時又花錢的選美活動？講者試圖論述只有透過對菲律賓的階級結構和殖民歷史等政經背景的理解，我們才能更好的體會在全球資本市場與現代化話語影響下的菲律賓全球勞務移民，並進一步設身處地的回答相關的謎題：包括菲傭選美活動為什麼如此普及，以及擁有高等教育學歷為什麼出國幫傭等等。

Domestic helpers in Hong Kong are often homogenized, exoticized, and stigmatized as people who live without purpose beyond remitting money home. Ethnographic research shows that, on Sundays, foreign domestic helpers actively juggle between personal chores, association board meetings, birthday parties, church volunteer works, and beauty pageants. This talk addresses a puzzling phenomenon: the motivations behind active participation in costly and time-consuming beauty pageants and, therefore, being restless on the designated “rest days.” Focusing on beauty pageant participations, this talk argues that similarly baffling individual aspirations – such as college education and working overseas as maid – need to be understood within a much broader context of the Philippine’s class structure and colonial legacy, especially a global exodus, as well as the discourse of modernization and impacts of global capitalist institution.

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