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Made in the Philippines (Hardcover)
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Made in the Philippines (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies
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Total price: R4,449
Discovery Miles: 44 490
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The Philippines is the world's largest exporter of temporary
contract labor with a huge 700,000 workers a year being deployed to
over 160 countries on either 6 month or 2 year contracts. This
labor migration is highly regulated by the government, private, and
non-governmental/non-private organizations. Women in particular are
channeled into vulnerable occupations, including domestic service
and entertainment. This challenging work confronts the darker side
of contract migration raising such uncomfortable questions as does
the Philippine government permit and encourage the trafficking,
exploitation and abuse of women?
Drawing upon the writings of Faucault, this work argues that
migrants and migrations are socially and politically produced. By
controlling meanings and discourses, governments are able to
re-position their policies to encourage a more positive reading of
their strategies. Tyner delves behind this political facade to
examine, on a number of levels, how the 'making' of migrants
furthers the government's accumulation of capital. Initially
documenting how the Philippine government has discursively framed
overseas employment since its inception in 1974, the book traces
through the many discourses, both dominant and periphery, which
represent female entertainers, before finally focusing on a case
study of one female migrant and how she negotiates her daily life.
Employing a post-structural feminist perspective, this work
provides a new direction in the study of gender and migration which
ultimately calls for a re-politization of migration studies.
Population geographers, feminist geographers and migrations
scholars of Asia will find this controversial work bothenlightening
and thought-provoking.
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