Yasmin Y. Ortiga is Associate Professor of Sociology at Singapore Management University. She is the author of Emigration, Employability, and Higher Education in the Philippines (2018).
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Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Prelude to the Pandemic: Skilling to Seize International Opportunities 2. An Emergency Measure: Keeping Nurses at Home 3. Windows of Opportunity: Divided Nurses Respond to Their Immobility 4. A Chance to Start Anew: Reskilling Unwanted Service Workers 5. A Long Time to Stay Afloat: Cruise Workers Reclaim Their Work Conclusion Appendix: (Field)Work from Home: Methodology Notes References Index
"In Stuck at Home, Ortiga tackles an important and understudied aspect of the management of migration - and of emigration specifically. The case selection and the research are excellent. The interviews and other fieldwork are rich - and given that it was conducted at the height of the pandemic, innovative and resourceful. This book makes an important and novel contribution to the literature on migration management policy and politics." -Natasha Iskander, New York University "Stuck at Home is a remarkable study that offers a rich account of nurses and cruise ship workers whose outmigration was derailed by the global pandemic of COVID-19. This rich study expands our lens of what migration is by establishing immobility to be a constitutive element of both migration experience and governance. It is a must read for scholars of labor and migration." -Rhacel Salazar Parrenas, Princeton University