Abstract
ABSTRACT This article traces the history of Filipina workers in Copenhagen hotels from the 1960s-1990s, including the relations between Philippine labour export practices and Danish ‘guest worker’ recruitment, the work conditions of Filipinas in Copenhagen hotels, and the political strategies and organizing practices of the Danish trade union for hotel- and restaurant workers [HRF] along with the self-organizing of Filipina chambermaids. The ‘immigration stop’ adopted by the Danish state in late 1973 was not so much an end to labour migration from so-called third countries as it was a re-configuration of the conditions for labour migration. Consequently, the practical integration of migrant members was central to transforming the Danish hotel- and restaurant workers union (HRF) into an activist organization which pioneered in the Danish trade union movement taking the task of organizing migrants seriously.
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