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Inclusion and beauty pageants? The Filipino migrant worker community in Israel
Gender, Place & Culture ( IF 1.463 ) Pub Date : 2021-02-28 , DOI: 10.1080/0966369x.2021.1887090
Deby Babis 1, 2
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Abstract

Beauty pageants held by immigrant groups in their host country, or diasporic beauty contests, are a fascinating global phenomenon. While previous studies have mainly explored this practice within permanently settled immigrant communities, there is a dearth of research regarding beauty contests in communities of migrant workers. Based on a seven- year fieldwork in the Filipino community in Israel, this study asks why beauty pageants have become such a prominent event among migrant workers employed as live-in caregivers. Involving candidates from both genders, these events were found significant for migrant workers at the personal, communal and transnational level. The uniqueness of these pageants lies in their inclusive effect, as it is expressed on every level. Unlike the construction of a Western ideal of gendered beauty from which the majority is excluded, diasporic beauty contests offer every migrant worker the opportunity to participate. Thus, becoming a platform for social inclusion and allowing live-in migrant workers to become visible and respectable.



中文翻译:

包容和选美?以色列的菲律宾移民工人社区

摘要

移民团体在东道国举办的选美比赛或侨民选美比赛是一个引人入胜的全球现象。虽然以前的研究主要在永久定居的移民社区中探索这种做法,但缺乏关于移民工人社区选美比赛的研究。基于对以色列菲律宾社区长达七年的实地调查,本研究探讨了为什么选美比赛在作为住家保姆的移民工人中如此重要。这些事件涉及男女候选人,发现这些事件对个人、社区和跨国层面的移民工人来说意义重大。这些选美比赛的独特之处在于它们的包容性效果,正如它在各个层面上所表达的那样。与大多数人被排除在外的西方性别美理想的建构不同,侨民选美比赛为每个农民工提供了参与的机会。因此,成为社会包容的平台,让住家农民工变得引人注目和受人尊敬。

更新日期:2021-02-28
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