The discourse of the Filipina trafficked woman collapses together women who perform multiple kinds of commodified sexual and domestic labor within a global capitalist economy, from Filipina mail-order brides to migrant sex workers. This chapter focuses on the diasporic circulation of the figure of the Filipina trafficked woman / sex worker within three sites of Filipina/o American cultural production: the web site for Gabriela Network’s Purple Rose Campaign, the Filipina American documentary film Sin City Diary, and the Pilipino Cultural Night vignette National Heroes. These sites reveal the tension in representing the Filipina trafficked woman / sex worker, from her portrayal as a victim to be saved by her Filipina American sisters, to her discursive construction by the Philippine state as a “national hero.”
