The invisibility of Filipino women in rural Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic

This study aims to clarify the invisibility of Filipino women through their experience of changing jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on Filipino migrant women workers who had to shift from working in nightclubs to working in food-processing factories for making lunch boxes in a rural area in Japan. Research data was collected from April 2020 to 2022. This study determines why migrant women who were engaged in essential work in rural Japan remained "invisible," surrounded by the embedded multiple axes of invisibility both at the local and national levels.