“Echoes: Cries for Freedom, Justice and Equality. Filipino Women Speak.”, was an initial step toward research and documentation of the situation of Filipino women living in abusive and exploitative conditions in a small town in British Columbia.
Their lives as domestic workers and mail-order brides was uncovered from a community-based perspective.
The project revealed two things: a phenomenal number of Filipino domestic workers married their male employers, and local men were seeking Filipino wives. Thus, the project renewed concerns about immigration programs such as the Foreign Domestic Movement and the Live-In Caregiver Program, which recruit domestic workers from the Global South.
“Echoes: Cries for Freedom, Justice and Equality. Filipino Women Speak.” (1999). GAATW Canada and the Philippine Women Centre. Funded by the B.C. Ministry of Women’s Equality. 49 pp.