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Autore |
Guevarra Anna Romina <1973-> |
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Titolo |
Marketing dreams, manufacturing heroes [[electronic resource] ] : the transnational labor brokering of Filipino workers / / Anna Romina Guevarra |
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New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-49256-2 |
9786613587794 |
0-8135-4829-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (275 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Filipinos - Employment - Foreign countries |
Foreign workers, Philippine |
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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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Home of the Great Filipino Worker -- 2. Cultivating a Filipino Ethos of Labor Migration -- 3. Governing and (Dis)Empowering Filipino Migrants -- 4. Delivering "Our Contribution to the World" -- 5. Selling Filipinas' Added Export Value -- 6. Living the Dream -- 7. Securing Their Added Export Value -- 8. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In a globalized economy that is heavily sustained by the labor of immigrants, why are certain nations defined as "ideal" labor resources and why do certain groups dominate a particular labor force? The Philippines has emerged as a lucrative source of labor for countries around the world. In Marketing Dreams, Manufacturing Heroes Anna Romina Guevarra focuses on the Philippines-which views itself as the "home of the great Filipino worker"-and the multilevel brokering process that manages and sends workers worldwide. She unravels the transnational production of Filipinos as ideal migrant workers by the state and explores how race, color, class, and gender operate. The experience of Filipino nurses and domestic workers-two of the country's prized exports-is at the core of the research, which utilizes |
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