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

• Autore: Rodriguez Robyn Magalit
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, Minn., : University of Minnesota Press, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.62599
• Soggetto topico: Foreign workers, Philippine; Migrant labor; Manpower policy - Philippines
• Soggetto geografico: Philippines Emigration and immigration
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Migrants for export
• ISBN: 1-4529-4648-5; 0-8166-7360-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785063903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II