And all your problems are gone: Religious coping strategies among Philippine migrant workers in Hong Kong

Mental Health, Religion and Culture

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 25-38

  Nakonz, Jonas ^a   Shik, Angela Wai Yan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Filipino; Migrant workers; Religious coping

Indexed keywords

EID: 56549122934     PISSN: 13674676     EISSN: 14699737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13674670802105252     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Alati, R., Najman, J. and Williams, G. (2004) The mental health of Filipino-born women in Australia. Health Sociology Review, 13, pp. 145-156.
2. Anderson, B. (2000) Doing the dirty work?. The global politics of domestic labour, Zed Books, London
3. Asian Migrant Centre Ltd & Migrant Forum in Asia (2004) Asian migrant yearbook 2004: Migration Facts, Analysis and Issues in 2003, Hong Kong
4. Asis, MMB, Huang, S. and Yeoh, BSA (2004) When the light of the home is abroad: Unskilled female migration and the Filipino family. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 25, pp. 198-215.
5. Bagley, C., Madrid, S. and Bolitho, F. (1997) Stress factors and mental health adjustment of Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong. International Social Work, 40, pp. 373-382.
6. Chin, CBN (1997) Walls of silence and late twentieth century representations of the female domestic worker: The case of Filipina and Indonesian female servants in Malaysia. International Migration Review, 31, pp. 353-385.
7. Constable, N. (1997) Maid to order in Hong Kong: Stories of Filipina workers, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY
8. Constable, N. (1997) Sexuality and discipline among Filipina domestic workers in Hong Kong. American Ethnologist, 24, pp. 539-558.
9. Creswell, JW (1998) Qualitative inquiry and research design: Choosing among five traditions, Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA
10. Cruz, GT (2006) Faith on the edge: Religion and women in the context of migration. Feminist Theology, 15, pp. 9-25.
11. Groves, JM and Chang, KA (1999) Romancing resistance and resisting romance: Ethnography and the construction of power in the Filipina domestic worker community in Hong Kong. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 28, pp. 235-265.
12. Harper, GW (2000) Philippine tongues of fire? Latin American Pentecostalism and the future of Filipino Christianity. Journal of Asian Mission, 2, pp. 225-259.
13. Holroyd, EA, Molassiotis, A. and Taylor-Pilliae, RE (2001) Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong: Health related behaviors, health locus of control and social support. Women and Health, 33, pp. 181-205.
14. Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department. (2006) Table 139: Population by ethnicity, 2001 and 2006. Excel Table.
15. Huang, S., Yeoh, BSA and Rahman, NA (2005) Asian women as transnational domestic workers, Marshall Cavendish Academic, Singapore
16. International Christian Assembly. (2007) Filippino service.
17. Lincoln, YS and Guba, EG (1985) Naturalistic inquiry, Sage, Beverly Hills, CA
18. Mattlin, J., Wethington, E. and Kessler, RC (1990) Situational determinants of coping and coping effectiveness. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 31, pp. 103-122.
19. Miralao, V. (1997) The family, traditional values and the sociocultural transformation of Philippine society. Philippine Sociological Review, 45, pp. 189-215.
20. Momsen, J. (1999) Gender, migration and domestic service, Routledge, London
21. Pargament, KI (1997) The psychology of religion and coping: Theory, research, practice, The Guilford Press, New York
22. Pargament, KI, Kennell, J., Hathaway, W., Grevengoed, N., Newman, J. and Jones, W. (1988) Religion and the problem-soving process: Three styles of coping. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 33, pp. 347-361.
23. Parreñas, RS (2001) Transgressing the nation-state: The partial citizenship and "imagined (global) community" of migrant Filipina domestic workers. Signs:. Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 26, pp. 1129-1154.
24. Philippine National Statistics Office. (2007) Table 4. Number of overseas Filipino workers, by place of work and by sex October 2003 and 2004.
25. Ponce, R. (2004) Exploring the spirituality of Filipino migrants in the Netherlands. Paper presented at the International Conference on Philippine Sudies (ICOPHIL), Leiden University, Netherlands
26. Piper, N. (2004) Rights of foreign workers and the politics of migration in South-East and East Asia. International Migration, 42, pp. 71-97.
27. Rivera, B. (2007) RP maids rally anew in HK over guidelines. Daily Inquirer
28. Sim, A. (2003) Organizing discontent: NGO's for Southeast Asian migrant workers in Hong Kong. Asian Journal of Social Sciences, 31, pp. 478-510.
29. Stahl, CW (1999) Trade in labour services and migrant worker protection with special reference to East Asia. International Migration, 37, pp. 545-568.
30. Tam, SY (2003) Violence defined and experienced by Filipino demale domestic workers in Hong Kong: Impacts and buffering factors of general mental health and self-esteem. Master thesis, Chinese University of Hong Kong
31. Tyner, JA (1994) The social construction of gendered migration from the Philippines. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 3, pp. 589-617.
32. Tyner, JA (1999) The web-based recruitment of female foreign domestic workers in Asia. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 20, pp. 193-209.
33. Vitaliano, PP, DeWolfe, DJ, Maiuro, RD, Russo, J. and Katon, W. (1990) Appraised changeability of a stressor as a modifier of the relationships between coping and depression: A test of the hypothesis of fit. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 59, pp. 582-592.