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Migrants for export : how the Philippine state brokers labor to the world
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Migrants for export : how the Philippine state brokers labor to the world / Robyn Magalit Rodriguez.
ISBN
9780816665273 (hc : alk. paper)
0816665273 (hc : alk. paper)
9780816665280 (pb : alk. paper)
0816665281 (pb : alk. paper)
Published
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.
Physical Description
xxviii, 194 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 28, 2010
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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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