Migration and Human Capital: Education and Training Considerations Among International Labor Migrants, Municipality of Rizal, the Philippines

Francis Peddie ()
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Francis Peddie: Nagoya University

Chapter Chapter 3 in Education and Migration in an Asian Context, 2021, pp 41-66 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract International labor migration is popularly perceived as being motivated by economic considerations. However, recent reports by international organizations and some academic research on this kind of migration have attempted to expand the understanding of migrant motivation by including aspects of human development and human capital accumulation that include education and training opportunities. This chapter explores what place, if any, education and training have in the motivational hierarchy of prospective, current and former international labor migrants from the Municipality of Rizal in Laguna Province, the Philippines. Data gathered from questionnaires, informant interviews and focus group discussions reveal that education and training are secondary motivations for labor migrants behind the economic rationale ubiquitous in studies of labor migration. At the same time, substantial portions of planned and actual remittance from increased wages earned overseas are earmarked for the education of children or the human capital acquisition of young labor migrants. The findings from Rizal cast doubt on some of the human capital motivational claims in literature while adding nuance to others.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-33-6288-8_3

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