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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2003

Deirdre McKay
Deirdre McKay
Affiliation:
The Department of Human Geography, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. deirdre.mckay@anu.edu.au
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Abstract

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.

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , June 2003 , pp. 285 - 306
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© 2003 The National University of Singapore

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