Immobilized by the pandemic: Filipino domestic workers and seafarers in the time of COVID-19.

This essay documents the experiences of two different groups of 'essential' Filipino migrant workers: female domestic workers and male seafarers, each confined in new ways in their work/home situations and spaces. These two categories of workers make up a large proportion of migrants within the Philippines' extensive export labor economy. For domestic workers, the Canadian government virtually stopped processing applications for permanent resident status.