Migration revolution
Subtitle: Philippine nationhood and class relations in a globalized age
By: Filomeno V. Aguilar, Jr
Series: Kyoto CSEAS series on Asian studies -- 11; Kyoto CSEAS series on Asian studies -- 11.
Publisher: NUS Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9789971697815; 9784876983827
Subjects: Filipinos; Social aspects; Employment; Philippine National characteristics; Filipino Foreign workers
Description: Since the 1960s, overseas migration had become a major factor in the economy of the Philippines. It has also profoundly influenced the sense of nationhood of both migrants and nonmigrants. Migrant workers learned to view their home country as part of a plural world of nations, and they shaped a new sort of Filipino identity while appropriating the modernity of the outside world, where at least for a while they operated as insiders. The global nomadism of Filipino workers brought about some fundamental reorientations. It revolutionized Philippine society, reignited a sense of nationhood, imposed new demands on the state, reconfigured the class structure, and transnationalized class and other social relations, even as it deterritorialized the state and impacted the destinations of migrant workers. Philippine foreign policy now takes surprising turns in consideration of migrant workers and Filipinos living abroad. Many tertiary education institutions aim deliberately at the overseas employability of local graduates. And the "Fil-foreign" offspring of unions with partners from other nationalities add a new inflection to Filipino identity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-280) and index.
Table of contents: title: Manilamen and Seafaring : Engaging the Maritime World beyond the Spanish Realm --; title: Old Forms of Labor and New Transnational Class Relations in Globalization --; title: The Dialectics of Transnational Shame and National Identity --; title: Ritual Passage and the Making of Labor Migrant Subjectivities --; title: Is There a Transnation? Migrancy and the Homeland among Overseas Filipinos --; title: The Triumph of Instrumental Citizenship? Migrations, Identities, and the Nation-State in Southeast Asia --; title: Amending the National Narrative : Political Transnationalism and the State's Reincorporation of Overseas Filipinos.