Debating the Politics of Temporary Migrant Labour: a transnational exchange

在地理学家，移民倡导组织和专业戏剧艺术家之间为期四年的合作伙伴关系中开发，这项拟议的研究旨在产生实质性的，关于临时移民劳工政策和英国，加拿大和菲律宾国内移民政策的跨国辩论。我们的工作直接回应了永久移民定居的旧模式正在让位于临时或循环移民的方式，我们参与了直接与加拿大的居住照顾者计划和联合王国移民政策的当前结构调整有关的问题。我们认为，我们的知识交流活动的范围是必要的，因为从全球南部到全球北部的劳动力迁移是一个跨国问题，因此，我们必须重新配置正义，权利，关怀和需要的讨论的规模。这个项目代表了一个不寻常的和创造性的知识交流的例子，以一种新颖的方式传播传统的社会科学。我们建议在马尼拉举办一个纪念性的戏剧演出（名为Nanay），将菲律宾护理人员的经验与菲律宾国内的辩论结合起来。作为一种知识载体，Nanay将传统的定性研究成绩单转化为见证剧院;我们的剧本完全基于对菲律宾家政工人，他们的孩子，雇主和保姆代理人进行了15年的采访。作为社会科学家，我们转向见证剧场，因为它的具体质量提供了空间，鼓励观众以不同的方式思考世界，暂时搁置判断，并以富有成效的方式扩展关于临时移民劳动力和护理伦理的政治讨论。因此，该项目提供了一个例子，社会科学已经被翻译，以设计有效的方式把研究纳入更大的公共辩论。继菲律宾的知识产权活动后，我们将在格拉斯哥、伦敦、多伦多、温哥华和蒙特利尔等城市举办一系列公众论坛。这些论坛旨在将政策制定者、移民倡导团体和研究人员聚集在一起，以便我们报告在菲律宾发生的辩论，并促进关于移民政策和移民工人在联合王国和加拿大的不稳定性的对话。在菲律宾，我们将与Ateno de Manila大学的成员合作;在加拿大，我们将继续与不列颠哥伦比亚省的菲律宾妇女中心保持长期伙伴关系;在联合王国，将与格拉斯哥难民、庇护和移民网络以及伦敦的Kalayaan中心合作，协调开展这些活动。我们创新KE教学法的发展和与倡导团体的合作是出于创造新的方式来影响变化，并产生机会，我们可以模型（而不仅仅是声称）一个更平等的政治辩论空间的愿望。

Developed in a four-year partnership between geographers, migrant advocacy organisations and professional theatre artists, this proposed research seeks to generate substantive, transnational debate on the policies of temporary migrant labour and the politics of domestic caregiving in the United Kingdom, Canada and Philippines. Our work responds directly to the way the old paradigm of permanent immigrant settlement is giving way to temporary or circular migration, and we engage issues related directly to Canada's Live-In Caregiver Program and the current restructuring of immigration policy in the United Kingdom. We suggest the scope of our knowledge exchange (KE) activities is necessary because labour migration from the global south to global north is a transnational issue, and as such, we must reconfigure the scale at which discussions of justice, rights, care and need take place. This project represents an unusual and creative instance of knowledge exchange that disseminates conventional social science in a novel way. We are proposing to take a testimonial theatre production (entitled Nanay) to Manila to bring the experiences of Filipino caregivers into conversation with debates happening within the Philippines. Written as a knowledge vehicle, Nanay transforms traditional qualitative research transcripts into testimonial theatre; our script is based entirely on verbatim monologues taken from interviews conducted over a fifteen year period with Filipino domestic workers, their children, employers, and nanny agents. As social scientists, we turned to testimonial theatre because its embodied quality offers space in which to encourage audiences to think about the world differently, to temporarily suspend judgment, and to extend the terrain of political discussion on temporary migrant labour and the ethics of care in productive ways. The project thus offers one instance where social science has been translated in order to devise affective ways of putting research into greater public debate. Following our KE activities in the Philippines, we will conduct a series of public forums in the cities of Glasgow, London, Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal. These forums will be designed to bring together policy makers, migrant advocacy groups, and researchers in order for us to report on the debates that took place in the Philippines, and to facilitate dialogue on immigration policy and the precarity of migrant workers in the United Kingdom and Canada. In the Philippines, we will be working with members of the Ateno de Manila University; in Canada, we will continue our long-standing partnership with the Philippine Women Centre of British Columbia; and in the United Kingdom, these activities will be orchestrated in collaboration with the Glasgow Refugee, Asylum, and Migration Network, and London's Kalayaan centre. Our development of innovative KE pedagogy and collaborations with advocacy groups is motivated by the desire to create new ways to affect change and to produce opportunities in which we can model (and not just profess) a more egalitarian space for political debate.