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Robyn Magalit Rodriguez investigates how and why the Philippine government transformed itself into what she calls a labor brokerage state, which actively prepares, mobilizes, and regulates its citizens for migrant work abroad.



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Abbreviations, Introduction: Neoliberalism and the Philippine Labor Brokerage State, 1. The Emergence of Labor Brokerage: U.S. Colonial Legacies in the Philippines, 2. A Global Enterprise of Labor: Mobilizing Migrants for Export, 3. Able Minds, Able Hands: Marketing Philippine Workers, 4. New National Heroes: Patriotism and Citizenship Reconfigured, 5. The Philippine Domestic: Gendered Labor, Family, and the Nation-State, 6. Migrant Workers’ Rights? Regulating Remittances and Repatriation, Conclusion: The Globalization of the Labor Brokerage State, Acknowledgments, Appendix: Mapping an Ethnography of the State, Notes, Index

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 16/03/2010
      ISBN13: 9780816665280, 978-0816665280
      ISBN10: 0816665281

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Robyn Magalit Rodriguez investigates how and why the Philippine government transformed itself into what she calls a labor brokerage state, which actively prepares, mobilizes, and regulates its citizens for migrant work abroad.



      Table of Contents
      Abbreviations, Introduction: Neoliberalism and the Philippine Labor Brokerage State, 1. The Emergence of Labor Brokerage: U.S. Colonial Legacies in the Philippines, 2. A Global Enterprise of Labor: Mobilizing Migrants for Export, 3. Able Minds, Able Hands: Marketing Philippine Workers, 4. New National Heroes: Patriotism and Citizenship Reconfigured, 5. The Philippine Domestic: Gendered Labor, Family, and the Nation-State, 6. Migrant Workers’ Rights? Regulating Remittances and Repatriation, Conclusion: The Globalization of the Labor Brokerage State, Acknowledgments, Appendix: Mapping an Ethnography of the State, Notes, Index

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