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Autore |
Rodriguez Robyn Magalit |
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Titolo |
Migrants for export [[electronic resource] ] : how the Philippine state brokers labor to the world / / Robyn Magalit Rodriguez |
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Minneapolis, Minn., : University of Minnesota Press, 2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-4529-4648-5 |
0-8166-7360-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Foreign workers, Philippine |
Migrant labor |
Manpower policy - Philippines |
Electronic books. |
Philippines Emigration and immigration |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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, mobil |
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