Made in the Philippines : gendered discourses and the making of migrants / / James A. Tyner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910956999803321
• Autore: Tyner James A. <1966->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004
• ISBN: 1-135-99660-1; 0-367-86381-2; 1-280-04792-5; 0-203-79989-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: xiii, 161 p
• Collana: RoutledgeCurzon Pacific Rim geographies ; ; 5
• Disciplina: 331.6/2599
• Soggetti: Foreign workers, Filipino; Filipinos - Employment - Foreign countries; Philippines Emigration and immigration Government policy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-155) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- MADE IN THE PHILIPPINES -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- Defining migration -- Approaching gendered migration -- Poststructural feminism and Foucault -- Theoretical sign-posts -- Structure of the book -- 2 The discontinuities of Philippine migration -- A path toward overseas employment -- Development diplomacy and personal sacrifice -- Migration as self-fulfillment -- The embodiment of globalization -- A possessive market society -- 3 The making of migrants -- Accumulating bodies -- The objectification of migrants -- The discursive marketing of migrants -- Non-discursive practices -- Discursive formations and subjective incorporations -- 4 The professionalization of entertainment -- Entertaining discourses -- The death of Maricris Sioson -- The professionalization of overseas performing artists -- 5 Performing migration -- Bodies and subjectivities -- The embodiment of a migrant entertainer -- 6 The political process of making migrants -- The politicization of migration -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Philippines is the world's largest exporter of temporary contract ; labor with a huge 800,000 workers a year being deployed on either six month or two year contracts. This labor migration is highly regulated by the government, private, and non-governmental/non-private organizations. Tyner argues that migrants are socially constructed, or 'made' by these parties and that migrants in turn become political resources. Employing a post-structural feminist perspective Tyner questions the very ontology of migration.