Figures of migration gender, kinship, and the politics of representation

Figures of migration gender, kinship, and the politics of representation

This article examines differences in the discursive representations of male and female overseas Filipino workers. Men have less discursive visibility than females, but men are seen as responsible breadwinners, virile, and/or threatening socio-economic and international hierarchies, while women are c...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Vol. 60, No. 4 (December 2012), p. 513-554.
Main Author: Cruz, Resto S. I (Author)
Format: Analytics
Language:English
Published: 2012.
Subjects:
Feminism.
Migrant labor.
Filipino foreign workers.
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