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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459203603321

Autore

Rodriguez Robyn Magalit

Titolo

Migrants for export [[electronic resource] ] : how the Philippine state brokers labor to the world / / Robyn Magalit Rodriguez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minn., : University of Minnesota Press, 2010

ISBN

1-4529-4648-5

0-8166-7360-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Disciplina

331.62599

Soggetti

Foreign workers, Philippine

Migrant labor

Manpower policy - Philippines

Electronic books.

Philippines Emigration and immigration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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, mobil