Robyn Magalit Rodriguez: Migrants for Export

Cover: 9780816665280 | Migrants for Export | Robyn Magalit Rodriguez | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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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.

Über den Autor

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations, Introduction: Neoliberalism and the Philippine Labor Brokerage State, 1. The Emergence of Labor Brokerage: U.S. Colonial Legacies in the Philippines, 2. A Global Enterprise of Labor: Mobilizing Migrants for Export, 3. Able Minds, Able Hands: Marketing Philippine Workers, 4. New National Heroes: Patriotism and Citizenship Reconfigured, 5. The Philippine Domestic: Gendered Labor, Family, and the Nation-State, 6. Migrant Workers’ Rights? Regulating Remittances and Repatriation, Conclusion: The Globalization of the Labor Brokerage State, Acknowledgments, Appendix: Mapping an Ethnography of the State, Notes, Index

Erscheinungsjahr:	2010
Fachbereich:	Geisteswissenschaften allgemein
Genre:	Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780816665280
ISBN-10:	0816665281
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Rodriguez, Robyn Magalit
Hersteller:	University of Minnesota Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 140 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	Robyn Magalit Rodriguez
Erscheinungsdatum:	16.03.2010
Gewicht:	0,322 kg

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