Pauline Gardiner Barber
Biographic Data
| ID | 146606 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pauline Gardiner Barber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pauline Gardiner |
| FAMILY NAME | Barber |
| SIGNATURE | BARBER P G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dalhousie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2771-2222 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 102 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Skill, value, and the social reproduction of Philippine-Canada migration
Migration, social reproduction and capitalism: Part 2 Introduction
Migration, social reproduction, and capitalism: Part 1 Introduction
Class, Contention, and a World in Motion
Prevailing scholarship on migration tends to present migrants as the objects of history, subjected to abstract global forces or to concrete forms of regulation imposed by state and supra state organizations. In this volume, by contrast, the focus is on migrants as the subjects of history who not only react but also act to engage with and transform their worlds. Using ethnographic examples from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and the Middle Ea…
Invisible Labour, Transnational Lives: Gendered Work and New Social Fields in Coastal Philippines
Feminist research on gender relations in fishing communities has established that through a narrowing of focus upon maritime pursuits, the coast is masculinized and men’s lives are privileged over women’s. The invisibility of women’s labour in coastal communities becomes particularly acute in situations where the labour is performed somewhere else, as is the case here. This comparison of gendered work practices and ideologies in some Philippines …
Parsing the mobilities of capital and labour: The case of Tim Hortons and internationally mobile Filipino workers
In 2007, Canada expanded the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) to include service and hospitality sectors. By 2010, more migrants entered Canada with temporary visas than as permanent residents. While some found employment in hospitality and tourism, most were concentrated in the fast food sector. Working transnationally, this paper uses Tim Hortons’ concurrent global expansion and its arrival in the Philippines as a case study of the globa…
Healthcare workers 'on the move: Making Visible the Employment-Related Geographic Mobility of Healthcare Workers
Many healthcare workers are 'on the move' as part of their employment, travelling often great distances to such places as patients'/clients' homes and community clinics. Healthcare workers' experiences of this employment-related geographic mobility have been relatively invisible even though mobility is necessary for home and community care. Interviews with professional (e.g. nurses) and paraprofessional (e.g. personal care assistants) healthcare …
Migration, Temporality, and Capitalism
The Relationship of Safety with Burnout for Mobile Health Employees
Employees' confidence in occupational safety while addressing work responsibilities on the road has implications for their experience of job burnout
International Organization for Migration in the field: Walking the talk' of global migration management in Manila
This paper contributes to the growing literature on the political economy of migration management. Based on ethnographic research in Manila in 2016, we explore the contradictory entrepreneurial character of IOM Philippines in its multi-stranded global migration management activities. As a major labour export country with a history of fractious politics over state reliance on migration, partly in response to neoliberalisation, the Philippines repr…
Gender Transitions Along Borders: The Northern Borderlands of Mexico and Morocco
Sex, Slavery and the Trafficked Woman: Myths and Misconceptions about Trafficking and its Victims
Sex, Slavery and the Trafficked Woman is a go-to text for readers who seek a comprehensive overview of the meaning of ’human trafficking’ and current debates and perspectives on the issue. It presents a more nuanced understanding of human trafficking and its victims by examining - and challenging - the conventional assumptions that sit at the heart of mainstream approaches to the topic. A pioneering study, the arguments made in this book are larg…
Global Workers and the Unmaking and Remaking of Class in the Twenty-First Century Blood and Fire: Toward a Global Anthropology of Labor . Edited by Sharryn Kasmir and August Carbonella. New York: Berg…
Gender Transitions along Borders: The Northern Borderlands of Mexico and Morocco
Mobility and cosmopolitanism: Complicating the interaction between aspiration and practice
Within the interdisciplinary literature on cosmopolitanism, one particularly important distinction stands out as a recurring motif. Specifically, scholars have been concerned to distinguish between cosmopolitanism as a set of mundane practices and/or competences on the one hand and cosmopolitanism as a cultivated form of consciousness or moral aspiration on the other. For anthropologists, this distinction between aspiration and practice is often …
The dialectics of migration: Part 2
The dialectics of migration
“Grateful” subjects: Class and capital at the border in Philippine–Canada migration
Migration in the 21st Century: Political Economy and Ethnography
1. Migration, Political Economy and Ethnography Pauline Gardiner Barber and Winnie Lem Part I: Perspectives 2. Panoptics of Political Economy: Anthropology and Migration Winnie Lem 3. Migration and Development Without Methodological Nationalism: Towards Global Perspectives on Migration Nina Glick Schiller 4. Theorizing Transnational Movement in the Current Conjuncture: Examples from/of/in the Asia Pacific Donald M. Nonini Part II: Cases 5. With C…
Migration in the 21st Century: Political Economy and Ethnography
Made in Sheffield: An Ethnography of Industrial Work and Politics by Massimiliano Mollona
Class, Contention, and a World in Motion
Prevailing scholarship on migration tends to present migrants as the objects of history, subjected to abstract global forces or to concrete forms of regulation imposed by state and supra state organizations. In this volume, by contrast, the focus is on migrants as the subjects of history who not only react but also act to engage with and transform their worlds. Using ethnographic examples from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and the Middle Ea…
The Ideal Immigrant? Gendered class subjects in Philippine–Canada migration
Drawing upon transnational multi-sited research analysing sending and receiving aspects of migration flows and the shifting priorities of neoliberal citizenship regimes, this article highlights the class complexity of Philippine gendered migration pathways to Canada. Migrant agency and class complexity are linked to neoliberal immigration and labour export policies that privilege the acquisition of capital serving the interests of sending and rec…
Cell phones, complicity, and class politics in the Philippine labor diaspora
This article addresses the politics of class, culture, and complicity associated with Philippine gendered-labor export. Several examples drawn from multisited ethnographic research explore two faces of class: migrant performances of subordination contrasted with militancy in the labor diaspora. With few exceptions, the literature on Philippine women in domestic service has emphasized disciplined subjectivities, the everyday dialectics of subordin…
Threads: Gender, Labor, and Power in the Global Apparel Industry
Threads: Gender, Labor, and Power in the Global Apparel Industry. Jane L. Collins. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 207 pp
Agency in philippine women's labour migration and provisional diaspora
The Ideal Immigrant? Gendered class subjects in Philippine–Canada migration
Drawing upon transnational multi-sited research analysing sending and receiving aspects of migration flows and the shifting priorities of neoliberal citizenship regimes, this article highlights the class complexity of Philippine gendered migration pathways to Canada. Migrant agency and class complexity are linked to neoliberal immigration and labour export policies that privilege the acquisition of capital serving the interests of sending and rec…
Transnationalism and the Politics of "Home" for Philippine Domestic Workers
Gendered labour migration and transnationalism have become part of the ideological fabric of Filipino culture and nationhood. Local livelihoods and the meanings of home are being socially, politically and spatially recast through the unprecedented scale of women's migration. This article explores the cultural politics of Philippine labour migration and offers a critique of victimizing representations of Filipina. Homogenizing cultural idioms port…
International Organization for Migration in the field: Walking the talk' of global migration management in Manila
This paper contributes to the growing literature on the political economy of migration management. Based on ethnographic research in Manila in 2016, we explore the contradictory entrepreneurial character of IOM Philippines in its multi-stranded global migration management activities. As a major labour export country with a history of fractious politics over state reliance on migration, partly in response to neoliberalisation, the Philippines repr…
Cell phones, complicity, and class politics in the Philippine labor diaspora
This article addresses the politics of class, culture, and complicity associated with Philippine gendered-labor export. Several examples drawn from multisited ethnographic research explore two faces of class: migrant performances of subordination contrasted with militancy in the labor diaspora. With few exceptions, the literature on Philippine women in domestic service has emphasized disciplined subjectivities, the everyday dialectics of subordin…
Parsing the mobilities of capital and labour: The case of Tim Hortons and internationally mobile Filipino workers
In 2007, Canada expanded the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) to include service and hospitality sectors. By 2010, more migrants entered Canada with temporary visas than as permanent residents. While some found employment in hospitality and tourism, most were concentrated in the fast food sector. Working transnationally, this paper uses Tim Hortons’ concurrent global expansion and its arrival in the Philippines as a case study of the globa…
Healthcare workers 'on the move: Making Visible the Employment-Related Geographic Mobility of Healthcare Workers
Many healthcare workers are 'on the move' as part of their employment, travelling often great distances to such places as patients'/clients' homes and community clinics. Healthcare workers' experiences of this employment-related geographic mobility have been relatively invisible even though mobility is necessary for home and community care. Interviews with professional (e.g. nurses) and paraprofessional (e.g. personal care assistants) healthcare …
Contradictions of Class and Consumption When the Commodity Is Labour
Why Philippine Migration?How could a country with so many gifted, so many nice people, end up in such a mess? -Benedict Anderson (quoted by Patricio Abinales in the Introduction to the Philippine edition of Imagined Communities, Anderson, 2003: xxvi)For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position. If these problems are met or at least partially solved by contract migration, we also expec…
Migration, social reproduction, and capitalism: Part 1 Introduction
Invisible Labour, Transnational Lives: Gendered Work and New Social Fields in Coastal Philippines
Feminist research on gender relations in fishing communities has established that through a narrowing of focus upon maritime pursuits, the coast is masculinized and men’s lives are privileged over women’s. The invisibility of women’s labour in coastal communities becomes particularly acute in situations where the labour is performed somewhere else, as is the case here. This comparison of gendered work practices and ideologies in some Philippines …
Commodities, Capitalism and Globalization: Introduction
Much, probably too much, has been written about globalization. According to Kalb (2000: 3), globalization has become the dominant political and economic discourse of the developed world-a grand narrative of our As part of public discourse, it is ideological to be sure, yet also traceable in political action and in social and economic effects. Indeed, before the onset of discourses about globalization, the global itself was exposed, subjected to s…
Modes of Resistance: Gendered Responses to Global Impositions in Coastal Philippines
This paper considers gender and the conjunction of global and local processes in three different social and spatial configurations; a Philippines locality, a transnational view embracing the Philippines and somewhere else, and globally. Gendered household livelihoods and contradictions in gender ideologies reveal the privileging of men’s work and political potential over women’s. Exporting women’s labour is the most economically viable household …
Culture, Capital and Class Conflicts in the Political Economy of Cape Breton
This paper examines the unprecedented rapid unionization of fish processing plant workers in the industrial town of Glace Bay, Cape Breton. The explanation for union militancy is tied to historical dynamics in local labour markets and the transposition of working class consciousness from the mining sector to the fish processing sector. Historically forged household and community dynamics and cultural values provide the key to the mobilization of …
Culture, Capital and Class Conflicts in the Political Economy of Cape Breton
This paper examines the unprecedented rapid unionization of fish processing plant workers in the industrial town of Glace Bay, Cape Breton. The explanation for union militancy is tied to historical dynamics in local labour markets and the transposition of working class consciousness from the mining sector to the fish processing sector. Historically forged household and community dynamics and cultural values provide the key to the mobilization of …
Some Thoughts on Kathleen Gough's Contribution to Feminist Teaching in Anthropology
Pauline Gardiner Barber, Belinda Leach, Some Thoughts on Kathleen Gough's Contribution to Feminist Teaching in Anthropology, Anthropologica, Vol. 35, No. 2, Anthropology, Imperialism and Resistance: The Work of Kathleen Gough (1993), pp. 263-265
Modes of Resistance: Gendered Responses to Global Impositions in Coastal Philippines
This paper considers gender and the conjunction of global and local processes in three different social and spatial configurations; a Philippines locality, a transnational view embracing the Philippines and somewhere else, and globally. Gendered household livelihoods and contradictions in gender ideologies reveal the privileging of men’s work and political potential over women’s. Exporting women’s labour is the most economically viable household …
Transnationalism and the Politics of "Home" for Philippine Domestic Workers
Gendered labour migration and transnationalism have become part of the ideological fabric of Filipino culture and nationhood. Local livelihoods and the meanings of home are being socially, politically and spatially recast through the unprecedented scale of women's migration. This article explores the cultural politics of Philippine labour migration and offers a critique of victimizing representations of Filipina. Homogenizing cultural idioms port…
Filipino Peasant Women: Exploitation and Resistance
Agency in philippine women's labour migration and provisional diaspora
Contradictions of Class and Consumption When the Commodity Is Labour
Why Philippine Migration?How could a country with so many gifted, so many nice people, end up in such a mess? -Benedict Anderson (quoted by Patricio Abinales in the Introduction to the Philippine edition of Imagined Communities, Anderson, 2003: xxvi)For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position. If these problems are met or at least partially solved by contract migration, we also expec…
Marchandises, Capitalisme et Mondialisation: Introduction
Commodities, Capitalism and Globalization: Introduction
Much, probably too much, has been written about globalization. According to Kalb (2000: 3), globalization has become the dominant political and economic discourse of the developed world-a grand narrative of our As part of public discourse, it is ideological to be sure, yet also traceable in political action and in social and economic effects. Indeed, before the onset of discourses about globalization, the global itself was exposed, subjected to s…
Threads: Gender, Labor, and Power in the Global Apparel Industry
Threads: Gender, Labor, and Power in the Global Apparel Industry. Jane L. Collins. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 207 pp
The Ideal Immigrant? Gendered class subjects in Philippine–Canada migration
Drawing upon transnational multi-sited research analysing sending and receiving aspects of migration flows and the shifting priorities of neoliberal citizenship regimes, this article highlights the class complexity of Philippine gendered migration pathways to Canada. Migrant agency and class complexity are linked to neoliberal immigration and labour export policies that privilege the acquisition of capital serving the interests of sending and rec…
Cell phones, complicity, and class politics in the Philippine labor diaspora
This article addresses the politics of class, culture, and complicity associated with Philippine gendered-labor export. Several examples drawn from multisited ethnographic research explore two faces of class: migrant performances of subordination contrasted with militancy in the labor diaspora. With few exceptions, the literature on Philippine women in domestic service has emphasized disciplined subjectivities, the everyday dialectics of subordin…
Class, Contention, and a World in Motion
Prevailing scholarship on migration tends to present migrants as the objects of history, subjected to abstract global forces or to concrete forms of regulation imposed by state and supra state organizations. In this volume, by contrast, the focus is on migrants as the subjects of history who not only react but also act to engage with and transform their worlds. Using ethnographic examples from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and the Middle Ea…
Made in Sheffield: An Ethnography of Industrial Work and Politics by Massimiliano Mollona
Migration in the 21st Century: Political Economy and Ethnography
1. Migration, Political Economy and Ethnography Pauline Gardiner Barber and Winnie Lem Part I: Perspectives 2. Panoptics of Political Economy: Anthropology and Migration Winnie Lem 3. Migration and Development Without Methodological Nationalism: Towards Global Perspectives on Migration Nina Glick Schiller 4. Theorizing Transnational Movement in the Current Conjuncture: Examples from/of/in the Asia Pacific Donald M. Nonini Part II: Cases 5. With C…
Migration in the 21st Century: Political Economy and Ethnography
The dialectics of migration
“Grateful” subjects: Class and capital at the border in Philippine–Canada migration
The dialectics of migration: Part 2
Mobility and cosmopolitanism: Complicating the interaction between aspiration and practice
Within the interdisciplinary literature on cosmopolitanism, one particularly important distinction stands out as a recurring motif. Specifically, scholars have been concerned to distinguish between cosmopolitanism as a set of mundane practices and/or competences on the one hand and cosmopolitanism as a cultivated form of consciousness or moral aspiration on the other. For anthropologists, this distinction between aspiration and practice is often …
Gender Transitions Along Borders: The Northern Borderlands of Mexico and Morocco
Sex, Slavery and the Trafficked Woman: Myths and Misconceptions about Trafficking and its Victims
Sex, Slavery and the Trafficked Woman is a go-to text for readers who seek a comprehensive overview of the meaning of ’human trafficking’ and current debates and perspectives on the issue. It presents a more nuanced understanding of human trafficking and its victims by examining - and challenging - the conventional assumptions that sit at the heart of mainstream approaches to the topic. A pioneering study, the arguments made in this book are larg…
Global Workers and the Unmaking and Remaking of Class in the Twenty-First Century Blood and Fire: Toward a Global Anthropology of Labor . Edited by Sharryn Kasmir and August Carbonella. New York: Berg…
Gender Transitions along Borders: The Northern Borderlands of Mexico and Morocco
Migration, Temporality, and Capitalism
Political science (27 works) · Sociology (27 works) · Law (17 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (17 works) · Politics (17 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (15 works) · Economics (12 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works)