Reading remittance landscapes: Female migration and agricultural transition in the Philippines
Reading remittance landscapes: Female migration and agricultural transition in the Philippines
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解读汇款情况：菲律宾的女性移民和农业转型
DOI：
10.1080/00167223.2005.10649529
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发表时间：
2005
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Deirdre McKay
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作者：
Deirdre McKay
摘要/ Abstract摘要：地理学报，2005(1):89-99。然而，正在发生的土地、劳动力、作物和种植模式的变化可能并不反映当地的生态或经济机会，而是代表了在新的全球范围内设想的地方现代性的性别版本。该研究将当地农业变化与全球移民中的当地利益联系起来，并将当地景观解读为反映这些联系。通过对菲律宾北部伊富高省一个社区的访谈和观察，本文提出了妇女移民既是自给农业向商业农业过渡的原因，也是其结果。妇女移居海外从事有报酬的工作，她们从农业中撤出了劳动和知识。在家里，单身父亲通常会选择用他们从不在家的妻子那里收到的现金汇款来种植新的投入密集型作物。男人对“现代”商业作物的兴趣可能会超过妻子对更安全和生态可持续的种植模式的偏好。通过追踪移民的汇款对作物和劳动力的投资，该分析将女性移民与家庭土地使用决策联系起来，表明此类决策如何破坏或增强农业的长期可持续性。
Abstract Geografisk Tidsskrift, Danish Journal of Geography 105(1):89–99, 2005 In the Philippines, female migration for overseas contract work is transforming local agricultural landscapes. Yet 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 local modernity, envisioned at a new global scale. This study links local agricultural change to local interests in global migration and reads local landscapes as reflecting those links. Drawing on interviews and observations from a case study of a community in the northern Philippine province of Ifugao, this paper suggests how women s migration is both a cause and a result of a transition from subsistence to commercial agriculture. Migrating for waged work overseas, women withdraw their labour and knowledge from agriculture. At home, solo fathers usually choose to plant new, in-put intensive crops with the cash remittances they receive from their absent wives. Men s interests in ‘modern’ commercial crops may overdetermine their wives ‘preferences for more secure and ecologically sustainable cropping patterns. Tracing migrants’ remittances into investment in crops and labour, the analysis ties female migration to household land-use decisions, suggesting how such decisions may undermine or enhance longterm agricultural sustainability.