Robyn Magalit Rodriguez

Migrants for Export

How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9780816665280
• ISBN-10: 0816665281
• Artikelnr.: 28136671

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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