Labor here, consume there, accumulate everywhere

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Probing beyond statistics, Barber and Bryan’s chapter examines the improvisations of capital and labor along the Philippines–Canada migration corridor. With reference to ethnographic cases coinciding with the feminization of Philippine labor export in the 1980s and the restructuring of Canada’s immigration system since 2008, the chapter explores the experiences over time of many well-qualified migrants arriving in Canada as temporary workers traveling under different visa programs where increasingly well-educated women predominate. Many well-educated Filipinos drawn to Canadian futures have sought transfer to permanency through targeted federal and/or provincial immigration programs described here. The authors argue that the social reproduction of Philippine migration can be linked to women’s social reproductive labor in the care sector and later in healthcare and food services, where migrant contributions to mobile capital as workers in Canada and consumers in the Philippines, in one global food service corporation, well illustrates the social reproduction of Philippine migration with its anchoring in feminized migration. The chapter concludes with a brief mention of how the COVID pandemic exposed the continuing vulnerability of Philippine migrant workers despite their major contributions to the nation’s economy and to the countries where their labor services the accumulation projects of internationally mobile capital.

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