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Exploring Philippine Labor Migration: Solidarity and Challenges in Exporting Citizens

Join us for the upcoming event on May 10 at noon, featuring a discussion on solidarity moments for Pin@y and Chican@ communities. This is an opportunity to reflect on the complexities of labor brokerage in the Philippines, its historical roots, and the impact of neoliberal strategies. Participants are encouraged to submit a brief email stating their partnerships and suggested interview topics by May 10. A reflection paper is due on May 13, focusing on the state's role in preparing migrants for overseas employment and the implications of migration policies.

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Exploring Philippine Labor Migration: Solidarity and Challenges in Exporting Citizens

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  1. Announcements • Today, Noon @ CCC – Compadre and Kasama: Pin@y & Chican@ Moments of Solidarity • Fri, 5/10 – please send me a short email detailing who you are partnering with as well as some potential subjects you have identified for interview • 5/13 – Reflection Paper #1 Due

  2. The Labor brokerage State Preparing Migrants for Export

  3. Labor Brokerage State • “a neoliberal strategy that is comprised of institutional and discursive practices through which the Philippine state mobilizes its citizens and sends them abroad to work for employers through the world while generating a ‘profit’ from the remittances that migrants send back to their families and love ones remaining in the Philippines” (x) • Negotiating with receiving countries • Formalization of migration • Ensuring temporary, flexible and disciplined labor

  4. Colonial legacies • 1898 • Philippine revolution • Spanish American War • Treaty of Paris • 1900-1930s – Pensionados & Manongs • 1934 Tydings McDuffie Act • Military Bases Agreement & EVP (7) • 1950s – IMF loans to Philippines • 1972 – Declaration of Martial law (11) • 1980s – SAPs and foreign debt worsen • 1986 – People Power • 2000 – Ramos, SOFA & VFA • 2001 – People Power II & GMA

  5. Migration bureacracy • “authorization” as key to Filipino mobility • Passport as token of national belonging vs guarantee of mobility • Philippine state as researcher and manager of visa regimes • Skills training = professionalization and protection or exploitation? • Documentary processing • Proof of Philippine govt’s modernization & efficiency • Practice of monitoring and disciplining • “’international borders serve to maintain global inequality’” (47)

  6. Marketing people • Institutional vs discursive practices of labor brokerage • Labor diplomacy + marketing of migrants for export • Reliance on racialized & gendered scripts • Filipina nurse – essentialist assumptions of Filipina femininity (61) • Filipino seafarers – colonialism as advantage (63) • National difference marks labor skills = national hierarchy of laborers

  7. 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 • Marcos’s regime • Overseas support • Required remittances • bagongbayani • Aquino Presidency • Neoliberal turn • Religious iconography • OCW  OFW  OFI

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