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Stuck at Home: Pandemic Immobilities in the Nation of Emigration

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Availability:In StockContributor:Yasmin Y. OrtigaPublish date:2025-05-27Pages:202
Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9781503642812ISBN-10:150364281XUPC:9781503642812Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Emigration & Immigration, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Social Classes & Economic DisparityBook Topic:Asian StudiesSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCKESEY7F1

The Philippines is among the most successful migrant-sending nations in the world, both lauded and critiqued for exporting its own citizens to a global labor market. Yasmin Y. Ortiga brings readers beyond this popular image to explore questions often overlooked: What happens when workers who were encouraged to emigrate are suddenly unable to leave?

Stuck at Home examines how the Philippine state and its aspiring migrants negotiated the meaning of immobility amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In this pioneering book, Ortiga studies the narratives that emerged around two groups of Filipino workers: nurses banned from leaving the country and cruise workers who returned home after COVID-19 shut down the travel industry. Ortiga emphasizes the high stakes in telling the "right" story of immobility to a nation built around emigration--one that provides a compelling rationale for who deserves to move and who can be forced to stay.

A gripping account of political interests, frustrated dreams, and an unprecedented crisis, Stuck at Home reveals how migration governance is not only about regulating people's movement, but also defining the meaning and implications of remaining in place.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9781503642812ISBN-10:150364281XUPC:9781503642812Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Emigration & Immigration, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Social Classes & Economic DisparityBook Topic:Asian StudiesSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCKESEY7F1
Yasmin Y. Ortiga is Associate Professor of Sociology at Singapore Management University. She is the author of Emigration, Employability, and Higher Education in the Philippines (2018).
Publisher: Stanford University Press

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