Made in the Philippines (Book)

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Made in the Philippines

By James A. Tyner

Price: $190.00

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• ISBN: 978-0-415-70015-3
• Binding: Hardback
• Published by: Routledge
• Publication Date: 18th December 2003
• Pages: 176
• Illustrations: 6 tables

About the Book

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.

About the Author(s)

James A. Tyner is Associate Professor of Geography at Kent State University.

source:  http://www.routledgegeography.com/books/Made-in-the-Philippines-isbn9780415700153

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