Filipino Migration to the United Arab Emirates Trajectories of Navigating Long-term Temporariness

1. Introduction: An Exploration of an Evolving Temporary Labour Migration Corridor in the Global South

Naomi Hosoda, Akiko Watanabe and Masako Ishii

Part I    Temporary Migration Corridors: A Macro View

2. Filipino Labour Migration to the Arab Gulf Region: An Established Work Mobility Corridor from the Perspective of a Sending Country

Jorge V. Tigno

3. Labour and Migration Policy Reforms in the United Arab Emirates: Filipino Migrants at a Crossroads

Françoise De Bel-Air

Part II  Transformation of Filipino Migration to the United Arab Emirates: Encounters and Agencies

4. Pioneering Filipino Dreams in the United Arab Emirates: Lived Experiences of Early Batches

Naomi Hosoda and Rachel U. Salinel

5. In Responding to the Needs of Overseas Filipino Workers in Long-term Temporariness: The Achievements and Challenges of Filipino Clubs and Associations in Dubai

Albert Alba and Akiko Watanabe

6. Muslim Filipinas in the United Arab Emirates: Navigating Mobility Pathways through Long-term Overseas Experiences

Masako Ishii

Part III Emerging Trends in the Temporary Migration Corridor from Below

7. Filipino Pathways to Entrepreneurship in the United Arab Emirates’s Temporary Labour Regime: Reimagining Migrant Futures

Jojo Dass and Naomi Hosoda

8. Diaspora Magazine Initiatives among Filipinos in the United Arab Emirates: Pursuing the Uplift of Representation beyond Bagong Bayani (Modern-day Hero)

Akiko Watanabe

9. Overseas Filipino Workers through the Covid Crisis: When Raison d’état Stimulated Solidarities

William Guéraiche

10. Class and National Subjectivities of Filipino Migrant Children from the United Arab Emirates: Returning (Pag-uwi) as Becoming

Jessie S. Malibiran Jr

11. Conclusion: Filipinos Navigating Long-term Temporariness in the United Arab Emirates

Akiko Watanabe, Masako Ishii and Naomi Hosoda

Biography

Naomi Hosoda is Professor at the School of Global Social Sciences and Humanities, Nagasaki University, Japan. Her academic background is in anthropology of migrants, and her research interest focuses on cultural normality, family relations, and transnational community, generations and citizenship. Her recent publications, as co-editor, include International labour migration in the Middle East and Asia: Issues of inclusion and exclusion (2019).

Akiko Watanabe is Associate Professor at the Faculty of International Studies, Bunkyo University, Japan. Her areas of research are Southeast Asian studies, anthropology and migration studies. She is the co-editor of Transnational generations in the Arab Gulf states and beyond (2023) and authored two chapters in Asian migrant workers in the Arab Gulf states: The growing foreign population and their lives (2020).

Masako Ishii is Professor at the College of Intercultural Communication, Rikkyo University, Japan. Her main research interest is in area studies of the Philippines, focusing on Muslim societies of the South. She is a contributing co-editor of Asian migrant workers in the Arab Gulf states: The growing foreign population and their lives (2020).