Made in the Philippines: Gendered Discourses and the Making of Migrants (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415700153)

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.

Author: James A. Tyner
ISBN-10: 0415700159
ISBN-13: 9780415700153
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 12/18/2003
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.44h x 6.34w x 0.74d