Exploring Anticapitalist Transnational Citizenship Dynamics
Analyzing the complexities of migrant citizenship, neoliberal concepts, and labor movements in the context of Filipino workers. Uncover discursive tactics, struggles, and the evolution of citizenship models.
Exploring Anticapitalist Transnational Citizenship Dynamics
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Announcements • Today by 6pm– please send me a short email detailing who you are partnering with as well as some potential subjects you have identified for interview • Mon, 5/13 – Reflection Paper #1 Due • Describe event, organizers, context, and audience • How does event relate to or challenge key themes, questions, readings of course?
Anticapitalist transnational citizenship Migrant Dignity & Resistance
Bagongbayani • Discursive tactics of regulation migrant citizenship • “the sense that membership in the Philippines is increasingly construed as actually requiring employment overseas” (79) • Neoliberal conception of citizenship rights to protection & social welfare vs rights of mobility & accumulation • Balikbayan(81) • Marcos’s regime • Overseas support • Required remittances • bagongbayani(84) • Aquino Presidency • Neoliberal turn • Religious iconography • OCW OFW OFI (88)
The international domestic • Filipina overseas worker = bagongbayani& source of national shame. • Ex. MaricrisSioson • Conflict between patriarchal Philippine nationalism and Philippine participation in neoliberal global capitalism • Resolution paternal state & moral education/values • Education & decision-making takes responsibility from state and puts it on individual women • Self-policing and re-enforcing of heteropatriarchal norms
migrant citizenship’s contradictions • May 2001 – Filipina garment workers strike • Malaysian-owned factory • Under Brunei jurisdiction • Contracted by US-based companies • Negotiated by private Philippine-based recruitment agencies • “Protected” by Philippine government repatriation • “Nationalism and citizenship have become the modalities through which the labor brokerage state mobilizes people to work as low-wage, temporary, gendered, and racialized laborers globally and secures their persistent relations to the nation-state” (143)
Anticapitalist transnational citizenship Ex. Migrante International: • Global network linking diaspora and country of origin • Dynamic use of electoral politics & radical social movements • Redefining citizenship from bottom up migration & remittances vs justice & accountability • Emphasis on workers’ dignity & respect How can we radically revision citizenship that is not based on a nation-state defined by capitalist logic?