Gender Status of Migrant Workers in a Patriarchal Society
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This is an article on the gender status of migrant workers living in a patriarchal society. The objective is to analyze the gender status of diaspora people in contemporary stories and Thai films in the context of globalization 2011 - 2021, using information from fiction, including 39 short stories, four novels, and six films, totaling 49 texts.
A study of the aforementioned literary texts found that gender status in contemporary narratives is differentiated between males and females. The representation of the male diaspora or migrant workers are oppressed due to their status as a diaspora, diasporic individuals, encountering difficulties such as ethnic discrimination, wage suppression, and cruelty. Meanwhile, female diaspora has an inferior gender status to that of men. They are oppressed in two layers, namely, firstly, being oppressed as a diaspora, and the second is being oppressed as a female. Such studies reveal the power relations between men and women in the workforce, which are related to economic, political, social, and cultural factors in a time-changing context.
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