Cultivating New Local Futures: Remittance Economies and Land-use Patterns in Ifugao, Philippines

Cultivating New Local Futures: Remittance Economies and Land-use Patterns in Ifugao, Philippines

In the Philippines, female migration for contract domestic work transforms the local landscape. The changes in land, labour, crops and cropping patterns that are occurring may not reflect local ecology or economic opportunity as much as they represent gendered versions of new local futures, envision...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of Southeast Asian studies (Singapore) 2003-06, Vol.34 (2), p.285-306
1. Verfasser: McKay, Deirdre
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Agricultural land
Agriculture, land tenure, rural space
Asia
Beans
Cash
Contract labor
Contract labour
Crop economics
Crop harvesting
Crops
Domestics
Economics
Ethnology
Financial Support
Internal migration
International aspects
Labor Migration
Land Use
Landscapes
Migrant Workers
Migration, Internal
Morphological source materials
Philippines
Rice
Symposium on Localising and Globalising Patterns in Natural Resource Use in Southeast Asia
Vegetable gardening
Vegetable gardens
Working Women
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Zusammenfassung:In the Philippines, female migration for contract domestic work transforms the local landscape. The changes in land, labour, crops and cropping patterns that are occurring may not reflect local ecology or economic opportunity as much as they represent gendered versions of new local futures, envisioned on a new global scale.
ISSN:0022-4634
1474-0680
DOI:10.1017/S0022463403000262