The House On Mango Street By Sorrita

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Similarly, Sorrita also expresses her own awakening as a domestic worker. She can see and appreciate herself and other fellow domestic workers better. This is illustrated in one of her short stories titled “DISNEYLAND.” She has shown the readers that a domestic worker is not only able to clean the house and tend employer’s needs but is also capable of adapting to a wide variety of cultural, social, and linguistic tensions and conflicts. They, in a way, have to be not only ‘doers’ but also ‘thinkers’ who have to deal with a wide range of practical as well as emotional issues in strange and unusual surroundings. As foreign migrant workers in Hong Kong, Sorrita and her fellow Indonesian migrant workers have contributed to Hong Kong economy. She …show more content…

So, the world admitted that Indonesian workers were skillful and smart. People even said that scholars from Indonesia were smart and virtuous. That makes you proud, right? However, I hoped when they work in Indonesia, they would keep the same attitude. They should be able to show good work not only when they were working in foreign country. That also applied to us, the Indonesian migrant workers. Ah yes, those who worked in foreign country were all Indonesian migrant workers. It’s their occupations that differ. (Sorrita 32-3) The quotation above renders a message that every Indonesian working abroad is taking the same title. No matter what kind of jobs they do, they all compose the Indonesian migrant worker workforce. In this particular short story, Sorrita speaks out on equality among Indonesian migrant workers, be it domestic, construction or skilled workers. Sorrita, to some degree, sends a message not to look down at migrant workers in general no matter what their occupations are. Reality Hurts: Narratives of IDWs in Hong Kong and the Issues in the Global Domestic …show more content…

Taking the experiences of the real figures of IDWs in Hong Kong, Susanti unavoidably reveal the bitter truth why these women are willing to go work abroad and participate in the world domestic employment industry. The huge number of IDWs working in this particular industry can also mean that the Indonesian government has not done much to provide enough job opportunities for its citizen, especially those who lack of education and technical skills. Sri, in Susanti’s book, is one of IDWs who has no choice other than to migrate to Hong Kong in order to be able to feed her newborn baby as well as to escape from her violent husband who keeps on beating her. Susanti narrates Sri’s story in the following

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