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    The article profiles Vicky Diaz, a 34-year-old mother of 5 who migrated from the Philippines to the United States to work as a housekeeper. Prior to migrating, Vicky had a successful career as a teacher and travel agent in the Philippines but chose to take a lower-skilled job in the US to earn a higher salary to support her family. The story illustrates how globalization drives many women from developing countries to leave their homes and jobs for low-paying work abroad in order to financially provide for their families. While migration allows these women to earn more than they could locally, it separates them from their loved ones and communities.

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    The article profiles Vicky Diaz, a 34-year-old mother of 5 who migrated from the Philippines to the United States to work as a housekeeper. Prior to migrating, Vicky had a successful career as a teacher and travel agent in the Philippines but chose to take a lower-skilled job in the US to earn a higher salary to support her family. The story illustrates how globalization drives many women from developing countries to leave their homes and jobs for low-paying work abroad in order to financially provide for their families. While migration allows these women to earn more than they could locally, it separates them from their loved ones and communities.

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    “Love & Gold”

    Arlie Russell Hochschild

    In the work of Arlie Russell Hochschild, “Love & Gold” it tells the story of a woman named Vicky
    Diaz, a 34 yrs old mother of 5 children who migrated in the United States to work as a house keeper. Before
    she migrated in the US she was a college-educated teacher and travel agent in the Philippines. She chose to
    work abroad even she will be apart from her children because the salary of the job in the US will be much
    sufficient for her family.

    The story was not only about the life of Vicky in being an OFW. This article shows the life of
    women’s problem when they are migrating to other countries to work for their family. It also show that
    people from third world country chose to move to first world country to work even the job is not that good
    like the job they get in their country. For example like Vicky, she has a good job back then when she was
    in the Philippines being a teacher and travel agent but she decided to migrate in US to work as a house
    keeper. There is a huge different between the job and there is also a huge different in the salary. Working
    as a house keeper in US has a big gap in the salary of working as a teacher and travel agent, being a house
    keeper earn a lot than teacher and travel agent.

    Through reading the article I felt awful and at the same time amazed. I felt awful because of the
    situation of the people that are migrating to other countries and they will be separated from their family and
    love ones. I am also amazed to them since they are willing to sacrifice anything just to provide and help
    their family. And I am also sad about the effects globalization and global capitalism. The rich people from
    the country become richer but the poor people remains the same. The globalization is not a bad thing at all
    it also bring good effects. In the article it showed that globalization also has a part in the economic growth
    of a country. But only the rich country or people are the one’s that only benefit from it.

    Keiah Adrielle N. Reyes Gender & Society

    BSBA FM 1-2 Sir Donn

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