1. Mon, 5/13 – Reflection Paper #1 Due
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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. Bagong bayani 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
bagong bayani (84)
Aquino Presidency
Neoliberal turn
Religious iconography
OCW  OFW  OFI (88)

4. The international domestic
Filipina overseas worker = bagong bayani & source of national shame.
Ex. Maricris Sioson
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
How can we radically revision citizenship that is not based on a nation-state defined by capitalist logic?
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