Migration Revolution

Philippine Nationhood and Class Relations in a Globalized Age

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ID6086702
AuthorsFilomeno V Aguilar, Patricia Fernandez Kelly (0000-0002-1316-5766), Philip F Kelly
Year2015
Volume30
Issue3
Pages877-879
Publication date2015-11-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0217-9520 • E-ISSN: 1793-2858
PublisherISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute (PUBLISHER • SG)
DOI10.1355/sj30-3i
OpenAlexW601410379
LanguageEN
Citations received10

Since the 1960s, overseas migration has become a major factor in the economy of the Philippines. It has also profoundly influenced the sense of nationhood of both migrants and nonmigrants. Migrant workers learned to view their home country as part of a plural world of nations, and they shaped a new sort of Filipino identity while appropriating the modernity of the outside world, where at least for a while they operated as insiders. The global nomadism of Filipino workers brought about some fundamental reorientations. It revolutionized Philippine society, reignited a sense of nationhood, imposed new demands on the state, reconfigured the class structure, and transnationalized class and other social relations, even as it deterritorialized the state and impacted the destinations of migrant workers. Philippine foreign policy now takes surprising turns in consideration of migrant workers and Filipinos living abroad. Many tertiary education institutions aim deliberately at the overseas employability of local graduates. And the Fil-foreign offspring of unions with partners from other nationalities add a new inflection to Filipino Identity

Class (philosophy · Epistemology · Political science · Sociology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy

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