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Announcements. Today by 6pm – please send me a short email detailing who you are partnering with as well as some potential subjects you have identified for interview Mon, 5 /13 – Reflection Paper #1 Due Describe event, organizers, context, and audience

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  1. Announcements • Today by 6pm– please send me a short email detailing who you are partnering with as well as some potential subjects you have identified for interview • Mon, 5/13 – Reflection Paper #1 Due • Describe event, organizers, context, and audience • How does event relate to or challenge key themes, questions, readings of course?

  2. Anticapitalist transnational citizenship Migrant Dignity & Resistance

  3. Bagongbayani • Discursive tactics of regulation  migrant citizenship • “the sense that membership in the Philippines is increasingly construed as actually requiring employment overseas” (79) • Neoliberal conception of citizenship  rights to protection & social welfare vs rights of mobility & accumulation • Balikbayan(81) • Marcos’s regime • Overseas support • Required remittances • bagongbayani(84) • Aquino Presidency • Neoliberal turn • Religious iconography • OCW  OFW  OFI (88)

  4. The international domestic • Filipina overseas worker = bagongbayani& source of national shame. • Ex. MaricrisSioson • Conflict between patriarchal Philippine nationalism and Philippine participation in neoliberal global capitalism • Resolution  paternal state & moral education/values • Education & decision-making takes responsibility from state and puts it on individual women • Self-policing and re-enforcing of heteropatriarchal norms

  5. migrant citizenship’s contradictions • May 2001 – Filipina garment workers strike • Malaysian-owned factory • Under Brunei jurisdiction • Contracted by US-based companies • Negotiated by private Philippine-based recruitment agencies • “Protected” by Philippine government  repatriation • “Nationalism and citizenship have become the modalities through which the labor brokerage state mobilizes people to work as low-wage, temporary, gendered, and racialized laborers globally and secures their persistent relations to the nation-state” (143)

  6. Anticapitalist transnational citizenship Ex. Migrante International: • Global network linking diaspora and country of origin • Dynamic use of electoral politics & radical social movements • Redefining citizenship from bottom up  migration & remittances vs justice & accountability • Emphasis on workers’ dignity & respect How can we radically revision citizenship that is not based on a nation-state defined by capitalist logic?

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