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. -Author

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Migrant Workers--women Interpersonal Relations economics population demography developing country labour migration Population Dynamics Developing Countries sex difference Women's Rights Asia women's exploitation gender ideology women's labour gender issues human relation human rights social construction Occupations health care manpower Health Manpower occupation Southeast Asia Socioeconomic Factors Behavior socioeconomics Inequalities Article migration Sex Factors population and population related phenomena Demographic Factors Southeastern Asia Women's Status Emigration and Immigration migration effect Economic Factors International Migration--determinants Transients and Migrants Population Characteristics Human Resources Philippines Labor Force employment Asia, Southeastern gender studies social behavior