Asian American Studies

Authors: Robyn Rodriguez and Helen Schwenken. This paper examines the complex interplay of actors and practices involved in migrant subject-making processes paying close attention to the pre-employment temporary labor migration process step by step from screening, recruitment, pre-departure training up to employment-matching.

Author: Robyn Rodriguez. The essays included here draw from a range of disciplines and inter-disciplinary perspectives that focus on migration between the United States and countries in Latin America and the Caribbean which in recent years have been transformed into ‘emigrant states.’