Cultivating New Local Futures: Remittance Economies and Land-use Patterns in Ifugao, Philippines.

McKay

Abstract

In the Philippines, female migration for contract domestic work transforms the local landscape. The changes in land, labour, crops and cropping patterns that are occurring may not reflect local ecology or economic opportunity as much as they represent gendered versions of new local futures, envisioned on a new global scale.

Citation

McKay. (2003). Cultivating New Local Futures: Remittance Economies and Land-use Patterns in Ifugao, Philippines. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 285 - 306. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463403000262

• Publication Date: Jun 6, 2003
• Journal: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
• Print ISSN: 0022-4634
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Pages: 285 - 306
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463403000262
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463403000262