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Philippine Migrant Workers' Transnationalism in the Middle East

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How do migrants assert their rights as workers when they do not enjoy the rights of citizenship in their countries of employment and are unable to assert their human rights through international conventions? This article focuses on the work of Migrante-International's Middle East chapter in Saudi Arabia. Specifically, it examines the ways Philippine migrants strategically assert their rights as Philippine citizens transnationally in local labor struggles. This case study of transnational labor activism in a region where migrant workers enjoy limited rights not only highlights how migrants exercise their agency in spite of major obstacles, but it also offers up novel ways to think about worker organizing within the context of contemporary neoliberal globalization for labor activists and scholars concerned with the labor rights of migrants.

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  • Rodriguez, Robyn Magalit, 2011. "Philippine Migrant Workers' Transnationalism in the Middle East," International Labor and Working-Class History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 79(1), pages 48-61, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:ilawch:v:79:y:2011:i:01:p:48-61_00
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