Ritual Passage and the Reconstruction of Selfhood in International Labour Migration

• Main Author: Aguilar, Filomeno V, Jr
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2018
• Subjects: Labor migration; Migrant labor; Pilgrimages; Overseas employment; Selfhood; Religious rituals; Liminality
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/history-faculty-pubs/9; https://www.jstor.org/stable/26531809?seq=1
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This paper reasserts the place of human agency amid the structural forces that seem to overdetermine international labour migration. To explore the meanings attached by migrants to overseas employment, the paper casts the worker’s experience as a type of ritual, a secular pilgrimage knowingly embark...