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Migrant Heroes

Nationalism, Citizenship and the Politics of Filipino Migrant Labor

Bibliographic Data

ID4525508
AuthorsRobyn Magalit Rodríguez (University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume6
Issue3
Pages341-356
Publication date2002-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCitizenship Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1362102022000011658
OpenAlexW2028374526
LanguageEN
Citations received69
References cited6

The Philippine state has popularized the idea of Filipino migrants as the country's 'new national heroes', critically transforming notions of Filipino citizenship and citizenship struggles. As 'new national heroes', migrant workers are extended particular kinds of economic and welfare rights while they are abroad even as they are obligated to perform particular kinds of duties to their home state. The author suggests that this transnationalized citizenship, and the obligations attached to it, becomes a mode by which the Philippine state ultimately disciplines Filipino migrant labor as flexible labor. However, as citizenship is extended to Filipinos beyond the borders of the Philippines, the globalization of citizenship rights has enabled migrants to make various kinds of claims on the Philippine state. Indeed, these new transnational political struggles have given rise not only to migrants' demands for rights, but to alternative nationalisms and novel notions of citizenship that challenge the Philippine state's role in the export and commodification of migrant workers

Citizenship · Commodification · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Globalization · Immigration · Migrant workers · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Welfare state · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

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