Suffering that Counts: The Politics of Sacrifice in Filipina Labor Migration (original) (raw)

Abstract

For both the Philippine state and the Filipina migrants, sacrifice describes the condition of suffering for and in behalf of others that also promises something in return, a better life afterwards for one’s home and homeland. However, sacrifice is also a fraught concept that the nation-state and its critics use to very different discursive ends. This paper tracks the trope of sacrifice and the ways in which national, cultural and sexual discourses produce and shape the various and varying discourses that sustain, for better or worse, the Filipino labor migrants’ relations to the Philippines as a nation and as a state. I examine the similarities and disjunctures of sacrifice in the rhetoric and practices of Philippine state and Filipino migrant activists.

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