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The Ideal Immigrant? Gendered class subjects in Philippine–Canada migration

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  • Pauline Gardiner Barber

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Drawing upon transnational multi-sited research analysing sending and receiving aspects of migration flows and the shifting priorities of neoliberal citizenship regimes, this article highlights the class complexity of Philippine gendered migration pathways to Canada. Migrant agency and class complexity are linked to neoliberal immigration and labour export policies that privilege the acquisition of capital serving the interests of sending and receiving countries. Sometimes this benefits elite migrants but it also exacerbates gendered class cleavages between migrants and within Philippine society. The histories of Philippine internal and overseas migration have contributed to a culture of migration whereby Filipinos exhibit flexibility to draw advantage from subtle shifts in Canadian immigration policy. The paper concludes that Filipinos may well represent the ideal immigrant but there are personal, social, and political consequences for migrants and the nation.

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  • Pauline Gardiner Barber, 2008. "The Ideal Immigrant? Gendered class subjects in Philippine–Canada migration," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(7), pages 1265-1285.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:29:y:2008:i:7:p:1265-1285
    DOI: 10.1080/01436590802386385
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    1. M. Chand & R. L. Tung, 2019. "Skilled immigration to fill talent gaps: A comparison of the immigration policies of the United States, Canada, and Australia," Journal of International Business Policy, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 2(4), pages 333-355, December.
    2. Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir, 2019. "Transnational Practices and Migrant Capital: The Case of Filipino Women in Iceland," Social Inclusion, Cogitatio Press, vol. 7(4), pages 211-220.
    3. Elizabeth Fitting & Catherine Bryan & Karen Foster & Jason W. M. Ellsworth, 2023. "Re-centering labour in local food: local washing and the growing reliance on permanently temporary migrant farmworkers in Nova Scotia," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 40(3), pages 973-988, September.
    4. Shiva Nourpanah, 2019. "Drive-By Education: The Role of Vocational Courses in the Migration Projects of Foreign Nurses in Canada," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Springer, vol. 20(4), pages 995-1011, November.

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