Migrants for Export How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World

Name: Migrants for Export How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World
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ISBN: 9780816665280

ISBN-10: 0816665281

ISBN-13: 9780816665280

Edition: 2010

Authors: Robyn Magalit Rodriguez

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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,…

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List price: $25.50
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 3/16/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Abbreviations


Introduction: Neoliberalism and the Philippine Labor Brokerage State



The Emergence of Labor Brokerage: U.S. Colonial Legacies in the Philippines



A Global Enterprise of Labor: Mobilizing Migrants for Export



Able Minds, Able Hands: Marketing Philippine Workers



New National Heroes: Patriotism and Citizenship Reconfigured



The Philippine Domestic: Gendered Labor, Family, and the Nation-State



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