The author in this passage how the women's work has been globalized. She further explains globalization, but I would like to touch on the idea of how women are becoming the breadwinners of their homes.
In the article, the author shares the experience Josephine had as a migrant worker. She had to leave her children at such a young age with no father to take care of another woman's child. She left for about 10 years, and watching the film When mother comes home for Christmas I could see how much not seeing their mother affected them. This brought me to think how being a female migrant worker has affected the relationship a mother should have with their children. As a female migrant worker, Josephine wasn't able to be there for her children in those rough moments, instead, she was taking care of another person baby in order to keep her family back home stable.
This also brought to me to conclude that because in Josephine's situation the male which is defined as the breadwinner was not in the picture to help Josephine and her family. This correlates with women becoming the breadwinners, and the female doesn't necessarily need males to support the family but poverty, in general, has forced them to leave behind their lives to take care of others and make of living out of it to help their families back home. Female migrant workers have been targeted in this aspect and they have become oppressed by wealthy families because not only are they becoming nannies, housekeepers, but also some become sex workers. They lose their dignity, family, and role as a mother wealthier mothers are winning because of these migrant workers.
In today's society, I've seen many cases where female migrant workers have been affected by this. Many families have been broken apart due to the fact that their mother isn't there for them. In others, female migrant workers have brought the best not only in their families but in their communities and have helped rebuild their homes. In Bangladesh, Jahanara a female migrant worker herself made the decision to leave her village because at the time her large family wasn't living out of the money her husband brought back home. She made the decision to the Middle East to make enough money as well to help her family she absolutely left behind everything, but she was able to help her family and her village. Many females have sacrificed everything just to help their families and because of them, they've become the breadwinners of their families.
http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2017/07/03/female-migrant-workers-changed-face-village/
What kind of resources do female migrant workers deserve?
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