Migrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World

by Robyn Magalit Rodriguez

Book Overview

Migrant workers from the Philippines are ubiquitous to global capitalism, with nearly 10 percent of the population employed in almost two hundred countries. In a visit to the United States in 2003, Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo even referred to herself as not only the head of state but also "the CEO of a global Philippine enterprise of eight million Filipinos who live and work abroad." Robyn Magalit Rodriguez investigates how and why...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816665281
• ISBN13: 9780816665280
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 8.5"