'I do' belong to you : debating the vulnerability of Filipino mail-order brides in Canada

10.32920/ryerson.14664138 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Kathryn Jane Hodges

Keyword(s):

Vulnerable Population ◽

Mail Order ◽

Empirical Information ◽

Mail Order Brides

This qualitative essay examines to what extent mail-order brides are a vulnerable population, concentrating on Filipino mail-order brides in Canada. The literature on mail-order brides has generally been polarized between two positions, one that tries to victimize all mail-order brides and one that tries to presume that all mail-order brides are in control of their own destinies. This paper aims to asses these polarized positions on the basis of empirical information proided in the literature and two interviews done with representatives from organizations that work with the Filipino community in Canada.

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Domestic Violence in Asian Mail-Order Brides: From Research to Clinical Practice

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e502942014-006 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Eddie Chiu ◽

Lauren Mai ◽

Namita Mangalath

Keyword(s):

Domestic Violence ◽

Clinical Practice ◽

Mail Order ◽

Mail Order Brides

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Voluntary Trafficking: Mail-Order Brides

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e685392007-001 ◽

2007 ◽

Author(s):

Rachael Kluck ◽

Oksana Yakushko

Keyword(s):

Mail Order ◽

Mail Order Brides

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Romance is Dead: Mail Order Brides as Surrogate Corpses

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3623444 ◽

2009 ◽

Author(s):

Daniel Epstein

Keyword(s):

Mail Order ◽

Mail Order Brides

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Global Love for Sale: Divergence and Convergence of Human Trafficking with “Mail Order Brides” and International Arranged Marriage Phenomena

A Feminist Perspective on Human Trafficking of Women and Girls ◽

10.4324/9781315203904-10 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 184-200

Author(s):

Oksana Yakushko a ◽

Indhushree Rajan b

Keyword(s):

Human Trafficking ◽

Mail Order ◽

Arranged Marriage ◽

Mail Order Brides

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Imagining the Filipina Trafficked Woman/Sex Worker

Queering the Global Filipina Body ◽

10.5622/illinois/9780252043475.003.0003 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 47-64

Author(s):

Gina K. Velasco

Keyword(s):

Cultural Production ◽

Sex Workers ◽

Web Site ◽

Documentary Film ◽

Domestic Labor ◽

Discursive Construction ◽

Mail Order ◽

Sex Worker ◽

Mail Order Brides ◽

The Web

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.”

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