Retrenched and Returned: Filipino Migrant Workers during Times of Crisis

Situating data from a pilot study conducted in the Philippines within the research literature, we examine the impact of the recent global economic crisis on the experiences of Filipino migrant workers and their families in the context of previous economic upheavals. In so doing, we highlight the gen...

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Published in:Sociology (Oxford) 2014-10, Vol.48 (5), p.1007-1023
Main Authors: Spitzer, Denise L, Piper, Nicola
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Crises
Downsizing
Economic conditions
Economic Crises
Economic crisis
Economic liberalism
Economic migration
Economic Policy
Employment
Global economy
Globalization
International economics
Labor
Labor migration
Migrant labor
Migrant Workers
Migrants
Migration
Neoliberalism
Paradigms
Philippines
Political migration
Repatriation
Return migration
Southeast Asian Cultural Groups
Studies
World Economy
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Summary:Situating data from a pilot study conducted in the Philippines within the research literature, we examine the impact of the recent global economic crisis on the experiences of Filipino migrant workers and their families in the context of previous economic upheavals. In so doing, we highlight the gendered effects of shifts in the global economy and detail government response to the premature return of migrant workers to the Philippines primarily due to retrenchment impelled by the global economic crisis. While the current conditions of migration and return are significant, we argue that these are not the result of a new global economic crisis, but are instead the ongoing effects of neoliberal globalization that have resulted in sustained multiple crises with which residents of the Global South have had to contend. Moreover, the reputed solutions offered to returned migrants are rooted in the same faulty paradigm that will be destined to produce only further hardship.
ISSN:0038-0385
1469-8684
DOI:10.1177/0038038514540579