Ritual Passage and the Reconstruction of Selfhood in International Labour Migration

This paper reasserts the place of human agency amid the structural forces that seem to overdetermine international labour migration. To explore the meanings attached by migrants to overseas employment, the paper casts the worker's experience as a type of ritual, a secular pilgrimage knowingly e...

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Veröffentlicht in:Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia. - ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute. - 14(1999), 1, Seite 98-139
1. Verfasser: AGUILAR,, Filomeno V. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 1999
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia
Schlagworte:Social sciences Economics Religion Philosophy Behavioral sciences