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.
- ISBN10 0203799895
- ISBN13 9780203799895
- Publish Date 18 December 2003
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Routledge Curzon
- Format eBook
- Pages 176
- Language English