Migration Revolution: Philippine Nationhood and Class Relations in a Globalized Age (Kyoto Cseas Series on Asian Studies) PDF
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KYOTO CSEAS SERIES ON ASIAN STUDIES 11 Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University Migration revolution FM-Migration Revolution.indd 1 3/26/14 3:58:01 PM FM-Migration Revolution.indd 2 3/26/14 3:58:01 PM KYOTO CSEAS SERIES ON ASIAN STUDIES 11 Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University Migration revolution Philippine nationhood and Class relations in a globalized age Filomeno V. Aguilar Jr. NUS PRESS Singapore in association with Kyoto UNIVERSIty PRESS Japan FM-Migration Revolution.indd 3 3/26/14 3:58:02 PM © 2014 Filomeno V. Aguilar Jr. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. NUS Press National University of Singapore AS3-01-02, 3 Arts Link Singapore 117569 www.nus.edu.sg/nuspress ISBN 978-9971-69-781-5 (Paper) Kyoto University Press yoshida-South Campus, Kyoto University 69 yoshida-Konoe-Cho, Sakyo-ku Kyoto 606-8315 Japan www.kyoto-up.or.jp ISBN 978-4-87698-382-7 national library Board, Singapore Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Aguilar, Filomeno V., author. Migration revolution: Philippine nationhood and class relations in a globalized age / Filomeno V. Aguilar, Jr. – Singapore: NUS Press; Kyoto, Japan: Kyoto University Press, [2014] pages cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 978-9971-69-781-5 (paperback) 1. Filipinos – Employment – Foreign countries. 2. Foreign workers, Filipino. 3. National characteristics, Philippine. 4. Foreign workers, Filipino – Social aspects. I. title. II. Series: Kyoto CSEAS series on Asian studies; 11. HD6300 331.62599 — dc23 oCN863179108 Printed by: Markono Print Media Pte Ltd FM-Migration Revolution.indd 4 3/26/14 3:58:02 PM Na-enot ki Papa, kaya ki Mama ini naman Kang kinua siya kan Kagurangnan Harayo an sakong pig-eestaran Dae niya na inabot maski nagpralano Pero ano ka ta kada-Sabado Kami nag-uulay iristoryahan Sa natad si tapayas mahihinog kuta na Pinaniki, napangirit si Mama Kanugon daa FM-Migration Revolution.indd 5 3/26/14 3:58:02 PM PB FM-Migration Revolution.indd 6 3/26/14 3:58:02 PM ContentS Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Manilamen and Seafaring: Engaging the Maritime World beyond the Spanish Realm 24 Chapter 2: old Forms of Labor and New transnational Class Relations in Globalization 53 Chapter 3: The Dialectics of transnational Shame and National Identity 83 Chapter 4: Ritual Passage and the Making of Labor Migrant Subjectivities 127 Chapter 5: Is There a transnation? Migrancy and the Homeland among overseas Filipinos 170 Chapter 6: The triumph of Instrumental Citizenship? Migrations, Identities, and the Nation-State in Southeast Asia 201 Chapter 7: Amending the National Narrative: Political transnationalism and the State’s Reincorporation of overseas Filipinos 231 Bibliography 245 Index 281 vii FM-Migration Revolution.indd 7 3/26/14 3:58:02 PM FM-Migration Revolution.indd 8 pg PB Blank 3/26/14 3:58:03 PM aCknowleDgMentS For the precious opportunity to finally sit down and work on this col- lection of papers, I am most grateful to the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), Kyoto University, which awarded me a visiting research fellowship that I enjoyed from 1 August 2010 to 31 January 2011, and the Ateneo de Manila University, which granted me a sabbatical leave during the 2010–11 academic year. I thank Fr. Ben Nebres SJ for un- hesitatingly endorsing my application for the CSEAS fellowship. In Kyoto Juliet, Isaac, and I were recipients of the warmest hospi- tality, friendship, and intellectual camaraderie of Carol Hau, Hiromo Shimizu, yoko Hayami, Mario Lopez, Kusaka Wataru, Jafar Suryomeng- golo, and other colleagues at the CSEAS. Members of the center’s ad- ministrative staff, particularly Chiaki Abe and Mami Hamada, were very gracious and helpful with my needs and those of my family. Nick tiongson, tesa tadem, Ed tadem, Shu-yuan yang, and Ambeth ocampo were also affiliated with the center during the period of my visiting fel- lowship, and I am grateful to them for the many fun times we shared. The six months in Kyoto, where we resided in a rather traditional apartment, brought challenges and great opportunities for a family with a five-year-old as the seasons went from sweltering summer to cool and colorful autumn and finally freezing winter. My wise, devoted, and lovely wife, Jua, was a hands-on mom, creative homemaker, and indispensable soul mate, even as she worked hard on chapters for a pediatrics textbook under conditions not entirely conducive to the task. Initially excited about kindergarten but soon disappointed by his inability to communi- cate, Isaac endured and eventually broke through the language barrier, intelligently deciphering and adjusting to a strange world where he de- veloped a fondness for karē raisu and the shinkansen. out of our com- fort zone, our family thrived by the amazing grace of God. I thank Jua and Isaac for accompanying me to Kyoto, sealing a marvelous experience we would replicate in Barcelona in the summer of 2013. The teachers, parents, and Isaac’s classmates at Futaba yochien openly welcomed the only non-Japanese student in the entire school, ix FM-Migration Revolution.indd 9 3/26/14 3:58:03 PM
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