This article analyses how organizations shape migration trajectories. More specifically, by looking at the Philippine migration industry, this ethnographic research highlights how organizations such as recruitment agencies, and governmental organizations, frame migration trajectories in terms of directionality, spatiality, but also by marketing migrants in the case of domestic workers. By looking at organization’s rationalities, it shows how migration flows have become institutionalized and ruled by organizations based on economic and protection rationalities in order to remain competitive on the global domestic labor market. Moreover, it underlines the crucial role played by these organizations to ensure the matching between the employers and the employee. This article highlights thus how agencies proceed by mobilizing migrant sociodemographic data to market skills such as docility, hardworking and flexibility. In addition, this research describes in detail how age, religion, marital status become key information mobilized by agencies in order to market migrants, meet employers’ expectations, and remain competitive on the global market of domestic labor. Finally, this article emphasizes the contribution of the organizational approach in the field of migration studies.
Cette contribution a pour objectif d’étudier les processus de production de l’altérité dans le cadre de l’économie mondiale du care et du travail domestique. À partir de l’étude des carrières migratoires des femmes philippines employées comme travailleuses domestiques, nous montrerons comment ces dernières sont réifiées autour de qualités supposées – tels que la « docilité », la « capacité d’ajustement », le « dévouement » – héritées d’une histoire coloniale, et maintenues dans un dispositif migratoire par des enjeux économiques et politiques. Nous mettrons en avant comment les frontières sociales et symboliques sont intriquées dans les formations et les processus de sélection afin de produire de l’altérité, et réifient la figure de « la filipina » à la croisée de rapports sociaux de sexe, de classe et de « race »
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