The Philippines: Mobilities, Identities, Globalization

ISBN-13: 9780415958073 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 230 str.

James Tyner

Opis

Nearly five million migrant workers from the Philippines are employed in over 190 countries and territories. They work as doctors and domestic helpers, engineers and entertainers, seamstresses and surveyors. It is through their collective labor that the Philippines has assumed a global presence.

The Philippines: Mobilities, Identities, and Globalization seeks to understand how the Philippines has become the world's largest exporter of government-sponsored temporary contract labor and, in the process, has dramatically reshaped both the processes of globalization and also our understanding of globalization as concept.

Spis treści

1. Local Contexts, Distant Horizons  2. Manufacturing a Global Presence  3. Manila's Place in the World  4. Global-Philippines.Com  5. Performing Globalization  6. Beyond the Philippines

O autorze

James A. Tyner (Ph.D., University of Southern California) is Professor of Geography at Kent State University. His research interests include population geography, political geography, and Southeast Asia.  He is the author of nine books, including Made in the Philippines: Gendered Discourses and the Making of Migrants (Routledge).