Agency and everyday knowledge of filipina migrants in Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Abstract

The chapter focuses on Filipina migrants employed as contract workers in the city of Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). It addresses two aspects concerning migration, minority educational processes, and practices at the micro level: First, it asks what kind of everyday knowledge as well as formal knowledge Filipina migrants possess in order to cope with their status as migrant workers in the multiethnic environment of Dubai. Second, it figures how these aspects of everyday knowledge are learned and transmitted in informal processes. It is argued that social networks serve as the most important means of knowledge transfer for Filipina migrant workers in Dubai. Most aspects of everyday knowledge are only shared and transferred within the Filipino community.