El trabajo de campo como colaboración en la diáspora: Iglesia, ONGs y trabajadoras domésticas filipinas en Roma

Abstract

In conducting ethnographic research, collaboration with various individuals and groups remain critical. Through «narratives of collaboration,» this article discusses the establishment of partnerships from priests to non-government organization workers (NGOs) as well as Philippine embassy officials, while maintaining the trust of the main collaborators, the Filipina domestic workers themselves. It explores the problems stemming from collaborations and from the ethnographer's insider/outsider status in the community. This work looks at the construction of knowledge in the Filipino migrant community in Rome and how it gains credibility and legitimacy.