Anna Romina Guevarra

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Marketing Dreams, Manufacturing Heroes

The Transnational Labor Brokering of Filipino Workers

Rutgers University Press

In a globalized economy that is heavily sustained by the labor of immigrants, why are certain nations defined as "ideal" labor resources and why do certain groups dominate a particular labor force? The Philippines has emerged as a lucrative source of labor for countries around the world. In Marketing Dreams, Manufacturing Heroes Anna Romina Guevarra focuses on the Philippines—which views itself as the "home of the great Filipino worker"—and the multilevel brokering process that manages and sends workers worldwide. She unravels the transnational production of Filipinos as ideal migrant workers by the state and explores how race, color, class, and gender operate.

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Techno-Orientalism 2.0

New Intersections and Interventions

Edited by David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, Greta A. Niu, and Christopher T. Fan

Rutgers University Press

Techno-Orientalism 2.0 addresses the impact of a volatile post-COVID present on speculative futures by and about Asians. The volume engages with techno-Orientalist inflections in recent high-profile and lesser-known Asian and Asian American speculative fiction, film, television, anime, art, music, journalism, architecture, state-sponsored policy and infrastructural projects, and the now-dominant China Panic.

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Techno-Orientalism 2.0

New Intersections and Interventions

Edited by David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, Greta A. Niu, and Christopher T. Fan

Rutgers University Press

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