Event
Gender, Sexuality, & Women's Studies Lecture: Rhacel Salazar Parrenas, Prof. of Sociology and Gender Studies, Univ. of Southern California
"Serial Labor Migration: Filipino Women's Patterns of Temporary Migration"
Co-Sponsored by the Penn Sociology.
Rhacel Salazar Parrenas, Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, University of Southern California, will discuss "Serial Labor Migration: Filipino Women's Patterns of Temporary Migration" with co-authors Rachel Silvey (Associate Professor of Geography, University of Toronto) and Maria Hwang (PhD Candidate, American Studies, Brown University).
Discussant: Deborah Thomas, Professor of Anthropology and Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Core Faculty.
Most migrant workers are non-citizens who confront exclusionary contexts of reception. Using the case of migrant Filipino domestic workers in the United Arab Emirates, this article examines how migrant exclusion, including ineligibility for permanent residency, absence of labor market flexibility and denial of right to family reunification shapes the migration patterns of migrant contract workers. As illustrated, exclusion encourages serial labor migration, meaning the multi-country migration process of temporary labor migrants who remain anchored in the sending country while they work in more than one country during the course of their migration. The concept of serial labor migration points to the need for studies to pay greater attention to mobility instead of integration and migrant exclusion rather than inclusion for a more accurate description of temporary labor migrant experiences. This article relies on in-depth interviews conducted with 85 Filipino migrant domestic workers in the United Arab Emirates.
Rhacel Salazar Parrenas, Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, University of Southern California, will discuss "Serial Labor Migration: Filipino Women's Patterns of Temporary Migration" with co-authors Rachel Silvey (Associate Professor of Geography, University of Toronto) and Maria Hwang (PhD Candidate, American Studies, Brown University).
Discussant: Deborah Thomas, Professor of Anthropology and Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Core Faculty.
Most migrant workers are non-citizens who confront exclusionary contexts of reception. Using the case of migrant Filipino domestic workers in the United Arab Emirates, this article examines how migrant exclusion, including ineligibility for permanent residency, absence of labor market flexibility and denial of right to family reunification shapes the migration patterns of migrant contract workers. As illustrated, exclusion encourages serial labor migration, meaning the multi-country migration process of temporary labor migrants who remain anchored in the sending country while they work in more than one country during the course of their migration. The concept of serial labor migration points to the need for studies to pay greater attention to mobility instead of integration and migrant exclusion rather than inclusion for a more accurate description of temporary labor migrant experiences. This article relies on in-depth interviews conducted with 85 Filipino migrant domestic workers in the United Arab Emirates.