Migrants for export
Subtitle: how the Philippine state brokers labor to the world
By: Robyn Magalit Rodriguez.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780816665273; 9780816665280
Subjects: Foreign workers, Philippine; Migrant labor; Manpower policy -- Philippines; Philippines -- Emigration and immigration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : neoliberalism and the Philippine labor brokerage state; title: The emergence of labor brokerage : U.S. colonial legacies in the Philippines; title: A global enterprise of labor : mobilizing migrants for export; title: Able minds, able hands : marketing Philippine workers; title: New national heroes : patriotism and citizenship reconfigured; title: The Philippine domestic : gendered labor, family, and the nation-state; title: Migrant workers' rights? Regulating remittances and repatriation; title: Conclusion : the globalization of the labor brokerage state.