Competing policies within the sending state: Labour export and the provision of primary healthcare in the Philippines

• Main Authors: MACABASAG, Romeo Luis A., ORTIGA, Yasmin Y.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: Health and Medical Administration; Labor and Employment Law
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3866; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5124/viewcontent/Competing_policies_within_the_sending_state.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In framing nations as places that either send or receive migrants, there is a danger in defining migrant-sending nations as monolithic entities driven by a single mandate of exporting labour to a global economy. Using the concept of viscosity, we argue that sending states comprise multiple state age...