Made in the Philippines

James A. Tyner

thg 8 2004 · Routledge

Giới thiệu về sách điện tử này

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.

Giới thiệu tác giả

James A. Tyner is Associate Professor of Geography at Kent State University.