Stuck at Home
Pandemic Immobilities in the Nation of Emigration
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2025
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New edition
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
9781503641846 (ISBN)
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
9781503641846 (ISBN)
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.
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.
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).
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Prelude to the Pandemic: Skilling to Seize International Opportunities
2. An Emergency Measure: Keeping Nurses at Home
3. Windows of Opportunity: Divided Nurses Respond to Their Immobility
4. A Chance to Start Anew: Reskilling Unwanted Service Workers
5. A Long Time to Stay Afloat: Cruise Workers Reclaim Their Work
Conclusion
Appendix: (Field)Work from Home: Methodology
Notes
References
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.05.2025 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 4 tables |
| Verlagsort | Palo Alto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie |
| ISBN-13 | 9781503641846 / 9781503641846 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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