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[Symposium & Conference] 2024 International Conference: 'What's Wrong with the Philippine Domestic Helper Pilot Project'

  • International Education Building LG Convention Hall
  • 2024.12.07 ~ 2024.12.07 13:00 ~ 18:00
  • 10936

We are pleased to announce that there is an international conference held by the "Race and Gender" research team from the Asian Center for Women's Studies at Ewha Womans University on December 7th, 2024. 

This conference is organized to discuss the intersection of race and gender, migration and caregiving in Korea and analyze the structural impact of global care chains on Filipino women and their societies. 


Over the past two decades, the structure of care work in South Korean society has been rapidly transformed in response to demographic changes. In particular, the “Filipino Domestic Helper Pilot Project," which was launched by the Ministry of Employment and Labor and the Seoul Metropolitan Government in 2024 to address the declining birthrate, is currently generating significant social controversy. Care work has been assigned to women of color and has served as a mechanism to reinforce inequality and hierarchy between the Global North and South. Korean society is no exception to this structural problem.


Despite the fact that the issue of migrant care work is a multilayered problem  intricately intertwined with gender, race, and postcolonialism, this intersectional oppression has not been sufficiently discussed in Korean feminist discourses. As a result, critical discussions on care work remain underdeveloped, and practical responses to this intersectional structure of oppression are still lacking.


Through this international conference, the Asian Center for Women's Studies aims to provide an in-depth analysis of the historical context and realities of migrant care work in the Philippines. The conference will elucidate the structural impacts of global care chains on Filipino women and their societies. It will conceptualize the intersectionality discourses of gender and race as a critical political project. This will be an opportunity for transnational feminism including Korea to develop more radical and practical responses to intersectional oppression in the context of female migrant care labor issues.


We would greatly appreciate it if you could share this information with anyone who might be interested in the topic.


Thank you for your attention and participation.