Discipline and Empower: The State Governance of Migrant Domestic Workers

IF 7.1 1区社会学 Q1 SOCIOLOGY

American Sociological Review Pub Date : 2021-08-31 DOI:10.1177/00031224211032906

R. Parreñas

引用次数: 15

Abstract

How do states manage their populations? Some scholars see the state as primarily governing through punishment, but how might the state engage in other forms of disciplining subjects? I address these questions by exploring the state management of labor migration through interviews and participant observation of compulsory government workshops. I look at the case of Filipino domestic workers in Arab states. States are said to exercise bio-power when they market and discipline migrants to be competitive and compliant workers, in the process ignoring migrant vulnerabilities. In contrast, this article establishes that sending states attend to migrant vulnerabilities. In addition to bio-power, states also exercise pastoral power, caring for the well-being of migrants through the creation of labor standards, regulation of migration, and education policies. This analysis extends our understanding of the state management of migration as well as the state management of populations as it advances Foucault’s discussion of the exercise of power.

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规训与赋权:移徙家庭佣工的国家治理

各州如何管理人口？一些学者认为国家主要通过惩罚来治理，但国家如何参与其他形式的惩罚主体？我通过访谈和对强制性政府研讨会的参与者观察，探讨了国家对劳动力迁移的管理，从而解决了这些问题。我看看阿拉伯国家的菲律宾家庭佣工的案例。据说，各州在营销和约束移民成为有竞争力和合规的工人时会行使生物权力，在这个过程中忽视了移民的脆弱性。相比之下，这篇文章确立了派遣国关注移民的脆弱性。除了生物权力，各州还行使牧业权力，通过制定劳工标准、移民监管和教育政策来照顾移民的福祉。这一分析扩展了我们对移民的国家管理以及人口的国家管理的理解，推动了福柯对权力行使的讨论。

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American Sociological Review SOCIOLOGY-

CiteScore

13.30

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3.30%

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