Institute of International Relations, TUFS
Research Seminar
“The Labor-Exporting State’s Repertoire of Action: Theory and Evidence from the Philippines”

東京外国語大学 国際関係研究所主催 研究会
Institute of International Relations, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Research Seminar
　

“The Labor-Exporting State’s Repertoire of Action: Theory and Evidence from the Philippines”

The labor-exporting state has generally been depicted in the academic literature as weak and neoliberal. This has tended to emphasize the self-interested aspect of states that export labor rather than their concerns for the welfare and human rights of their migrant workers. In this paper, we argue that the labor-exporting state is a much more complex structure whose actions must be understood across a wide gamut. To do so, we develop a theory of the characteristics of the labor-exporting state, which we call a “repertoire of action.” We identify three key aspects of this repertoire: social discipline, rhetorical performance, and institutional responsiveness. We analyze this repertoire of action through four key Philippine administrations: those of Ferdinand Marcos (1965-1986), Corazon Aquino (1986-1992), Fidel Ramos (1992-1998), as well as of Rodrigo Duterte (2016-2022). At a broad level, these administrations can be distinguished from each other in terms of their types of action, but at a more micro level, they similarly employ elements of discipline, performance, and responsiveness.

Presenter： Dr. Kazue Takamura
Dr. Kazue Takamura is Senior Faculty Lecturer in the Institute for the Study of International Development at McGill University.
She is also Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences at Nagasaki University. Her research focuses on Asian migration, gendered labor vulnerability, immigration detention, international migrant rights, and the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia. Takamura is the recipient of several teaching awards at McGill, including the Principal’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching, as well as grants and fellowships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, and the Toyota Foundation. She received her PhD from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.　

Dr. Kazue Takamura

Presenter： Dr. Erik Martinez Kuhonta
Dr. Erik Martinez Kuhonta is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at McGill University.
In 2024-25, he is the John H. McArthur Research Fellow of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. He is author of The Institutional Imperative: The Politics of Equitable Development in Southeast Asia (Stanford Press, 2011)?, which was short-listed for the Canadian Political Science Association Prize in Comparative Politics. He is co-editor of Party System Institutionalization in Asia: Democracies, Autocracies, and the Shadow of the Past (Cambridge Press, 2015) and Southeast Asia in Political Science: Theory, Region, and Qualitative Analysis (Stanford Press, 2008). Kuhonta has held visiting fellowships at Stanford University, the East-West Center (Honolulu), and Kyoto University. He received his PhD from Princeton University.

Dr. Erik Martinez Kuhonta

Discussant: Dr. Yuya Iida
Research Fellow, Ferris University and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Chair： Dr. Wataru Kusaka
Professor, Graduate School of Global Studies, TUFS

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使用言語：英語、ハイブリッド形式（対面?オンライン）、
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