Made in the Philippines
| By: | James A. Tyner |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780367863814 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781135996604 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2004 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.