The remittances of overseas contract workers have become a mainstay of many Southeast Asian economies, particularly the Philippines. This article suggests that the growth of contract labour migration in the contemporary global context is of great economic and political significance to both international capital and the nation state, but that migration theory as it currently stands finds difficulty in specifying the particular distinctiveness of this new form of migrant labour.
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