全球化、妇女迁移与亚洲公民社会——移民女工权利保护与菲律宾NGO的角色

Globalization,Women Migration and Asian Civil Society——The Rights of Women Migrant Labors and the Role of Philippine NGOs

移民女性化是全球化时代人口国际迁移的一个重要特征,对移民女工的权利保护也成为国际社会尤其是NGO关注的焦点。本文以亚洲劳工输出大国菲律宾为例,探讨了菲律宾女性移民的特点以及菲律宾NGO在移民女工权利保护方面的角色与影响,指出在经济全球化浪潮的推动下,亚洲移民女性权利保护运动与NGO的发展呈现出高度互动的特征,女性正在成为推动亚洲社会政治话语变迁的主角以及促进亚洲公民社会发展的重要力量。本文进一步指出探究全球化时代公民概念的变迁及其意义,赋予移民工人的公民身份才是保护移民权利的重要途径,也是民族国家与公民社会不可回避的重大问题。

The feminization of across-border migration is becoming a significant phenomenon in the era of globaliza- tion, thus the rights of women migrant labors are attracting huge attention of NGOs and international community. Taking the Philippines--the third biggest labor-exporting country for example, the paper examines the feature of Philippine women Migrants and the role of Philippine NGOs in the fights protection of overseas migrant labor, and points out that promoted by the economic globalization, the fights protection movement of Asian women migrants and the development of NGOs interact highly, and women are becoming an important force for driving the transfor- mation of social political discourse and the development of Asian civil society. At the last part, the paper further ex- plores the concept of citizenship in the age of globalization, and concludes that only granting migrant labors citizenship legally is an ideal means of protecting migrant labors＇ rights. This is a big problem that the nations and interna- tional community must face.