Migrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World - Tapa blanda

Rodriguez, Robyn Magalit

 
9780816665280: Migrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World
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ISBN 10: 0816665281 ISBN 13: 9780816665280
Editorial: University of Minnesota Press, 2010

Sinopsis

Migrant workers from the Philippines are ubiquitous to global capitalism, with nearly 10 percent of the population employed in almost two hundred countries. In a visit to the United States in 2003, Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo even referred to herself as not only the head of state but also “the CEO of a global Philippine enterprise of eight million Filipinos who live and work abroad.” Robyn Magalit Rodriguez investigates how and why the Philippine government transformed itself into what she calls a labor brokerage state, which actively prepares, mobilizes, and regulates its citizens for migrant work abroad. Filipino men and women fill a range of jobs around the globe, including domestic work, construction, and engineering, and they have even worked in the Middle East to support U.S. military operations. At the same time, the state redefines nationalism to normalize its citizens to migration while fostering their ties to the Philippines. Those who leave the country to work and send their wages to their families at home are treated as new national heroes. Drawing on ethnographic research of the Philippine government’s migration bureaucracy, interviews, and archival work, Rodriguez presents a new analysis of neoliberal globalization and its consequences for nation-state formation.

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Robyn Magalit Rodriguez is assistant professor of sociology at Rutgers University.

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Editorial
University of Minnesota Press
Año de publicación
2010
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0816665281
ISBN 13 
9780816665280
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Número de páginas
224
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ISBN 10:  0816665273 ISBN 13:  9780816665273
Editorial: University of Minnesota Press, 2010
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