Made in the Philippines
Series: Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies
List Price: $195.00
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-70015-3
- Binding: Hardback
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 12/18/2003
- Pages: 176
- Trim Size: 234X156
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About the Book
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.You may also be interested in:
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