ABSTRACT

While Filipinas often appear in studies of gendered reproductive care, Filipinos appear commonly as militarized labor extending American hegemony. Both sets of Filipinx labor aspire to attaining citizenship and rights to permanent settlement. This article focuses on Filipinas in the Israeli Defense Forces. Filipina IDF recruits have recently appeared in Israeli media in order to reframe Israeli settler militarism as benevolent. Yet these instrumental portrayals build on longer histories of Philippine-Israeli entanglement. By situating two Filipinas’ stories within transnational contexts of humanitarian and reproductive care, we highlight how legacies of U.S. and Israeli settler militarism tether the Philippines to Israel.

摘要

虽然菲律宾人经常出现在性别生殖保健研究中，但菲律宾人通常作为军事化的工作出现，扩展了美国的霸权地位。两组菲律宾工人都渴望获得公民身份和永久居留权。本文重点介绍以色列国防军中的菲律宾人。菲律宾国防军新兵最近出现在以色列媒体上，目的是将以色列定居军国主义重新组织为仁慈。然而，这些工具性的描写建立在菲律宾-以色列纠缠的悠久历史上。通过将两个菲律宾人的故事放在人道主义和生殖保健的跨国环境中，我们强调了美国和以色列定居者军国主义的遗产如何将菲律宾束缚于以色列。