Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
12-2018
Abstract
This article demonstrates how neoliberal higher education has come to play a distinct role in the global market for migrant labor, where a growing number of developing nations educate its citizens for overseas work in order to maximize future monetary remittances. Located in the Philippines, this study shows how local colleges and universities attempt to impose an ideal notion of flexibility, quickly shifting academic manpower and resources to programs that would produce the ‘right’ types of workers to address foreign labor demands. Based on qualitative interviews with Filipino college educators and students, the article then discusses how such ‘flexible’ strategies undermine the job security of college faculty and lead to the constant restructuring of physical space within university campuses. Such changes negatively affect both students and teachers.
Keywords
Neoliberalism, Higher education, Flexibility, Marketization, Philippines, Migration
Discipline
Education | Sociology
Research Areas
Sociology
Publication
British Journal of Sociology of Education
Volume
38
Issue
4
First Page
485
Last Page
499
ISSN
0142-5692
Identifier
10.1080/01425692.2015.1113857
Publisher
Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles
Citation
ORTIGA, Yasmin Y..(2018). The flexible University: Neoliberal education and the global production of migrant labor. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 38(4), 485-499.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2750
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2015.1113857