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PHILIPPINE STUDIES-HISTORICAL AND ETHNOGRAPHIC VIEWPOINTS
Volume 60, Issue 4, Pages 513-554Publisher
ATENEO MANILA UNIV
DOI: 10.1353/phs.2012.0039
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MIGRATION; KINSHIP; GENDER; DISCURSIVE REPRESENTATION; FEMINIZATION OF LABOR
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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 socioeconomic and international hierarchies, while women are contradictorily portrayed as heroines and bad mothers. These representations result from migration's tensions and contradictions with historically established gender and kinship norms. Because these norms are central to Philippine class and status hierarchies, elite and middle-class anxieties thus mediate migrants' representations. Further, the state and global political economy shape these representations. This examination compels a rethinking of Philippine migration flows as feminized.
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