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Migrant Workers As Political Agents—Analysis Of Migrant Labourers’ ‘Production Of Everyday Spaces’ In Japan, Hironori Onuki
Migrant Workers As Political Agents—Analysis Of Migrant Labourers’ ‘Production Of Everyday Spaces’ In Japan, Hironori Onuki
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
While specifically focusing on the context of Japan (one of the major destinations of Asian as well as other migrant workers), my research investigates the concrete, contingent and situated practices of global labour migration. the primary research question of my project is: how far and in what ways are global labour migrations implicated in as well as resisting the neoliberal restructing of global political economy? The central hypothesis is that migrant worders, as political subjects, and their everyday social practices not only participate in and depend on but also contest and negotiate the neo-liberal re-configurations of labour-capital relation in the …
Migration Workers As Political Subjects: Globalization-As-Practices, Everyday Spaces, And Global Labour Migrations, Hironori Onuki
Migration Workers As Political Subjects: Globalization-As-Practices, Everyday Spaces, And Global Labour Migrations, Hironori Onuki
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Within the currently intensified labour flows from developing societies to highly industrialized areas, the Philippines has been the largest supplier of government-sponsored contract workers. Overseas contract employment was institutionalized by the Philippine government in 1972 to tackle the problems of unemployment and foreign debt. The remittances from migrant workers have become a major source of foreign currency for the national economy, which led the then president Aquino to call overseas workers "national heroes." In this light, building upon Louise Amoore's conceptualization of globalization as sets of globalizing social practices, my essay will investigate the concrete, contingen,t and situated practices of …