Summary:
Risk Culture and Culturalisation of Risk in Migration. Philippine Perspective :
This article examines how risks are perceived and framed in the case of female domestic workers’ migration. It shows how these risk perceptions are constructed by the Philippine migration industry, and how these migrant women interact with it. Based on ethnographic work, this research shows first how the perception of risk framed by the migration industry focuses primarily on cultur- alist representations of destination countries in order to fill a lack of legal protec- tion of domestic workers. Second, this article underlines how the way of framing risk through the idea of culture reduces Filipino migrants’ perceptions of risk in a context of unfavourable structural conditions. Finally, the article highlights how this framing of culture is socially situated and implies, therefore, multiple frames of risk interpretation regarding the cultural belonging of migrants.
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