The Filipino Migration Experience

Author : Mina Roces
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501760426

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The Filipino Migration Experience by Mina Roces Pdf

The Filipino Migration Experience introduces a new dimension to the usual depiction of migrants as disenfranchised workers or marginal ethnic groups. Mina Roces suggests alternative ways of conceptualizing Filipino migrantsas critics of the family and cultural constructions of sexuality, as consumers and investors, as philanthropists, as activists, and, as historians. They have been able to transform fundamental social institutions and well-entrenched traditional norms, as well as alter the business, economic and cultural landscapes of both the homeland and the host countries to which they have migrated. Mina Roces tells the story of the Filipino migration experience from the perspective of the migrants themselves, tapping into hitherto underused primary sources from the "migrant archives" and more than 70 interviews. Bringing the fields of Filipino migration studies and Filipina/o/x American studies together, this book analyzes some of the areas where Filipino migrants have forever changed the status quo.

Author : Yen Le Espiritu
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520235274

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Home Bound by Yen Le Espiritu Pdf

"In this highly original and inspired book, Espiritu bursts the binaries and shows us how the tensions of race, gender, nation, and colonial legacies situate contemporary transnationalism. Conceptually rich and empirically grounded, Home Bound blurs the borders of sociology and cultural studies like no other book I know. Kudos to Espiritu for this boundary-breaking tour de force!"—Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, author of Domestica: Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence "A singular achievement. Not only does it cast light on the deep historical entanglements of immigration and imperialism, citizenship and race, and gender and subjectivity in the United States, but by highlighting the varied voices of Filipino Americans, it also calls attention to their creative potential to make a home under some of the most inhospitable conditions. Theoretically rich, empirically grounded, and lucidly written, this book marks a major advance in our attempts to understand the 'specter of migration' haunting the world today."—Vicente L. Rafael, author of White Love and Other Events in Filipino History "Home Bound combines excellent ethnography of the Filipino experience in the U.S. with a brilliant and devastating critique of traditional scholarship on immigration. Espiritu's analysis of how the vectors of identity articulate with one another is particularly cutting-edge."—Sarah J. Mahler, author of American Dreaming: Immigrant Life on the Margins "Using a critical transnational, feminist, and historical perspective, Espiritu insightfully and sensitively analyzes the meaning of home, community, friendship, love, and family for Filipino Americans. In the process, she unveils what these immigrants can tell us about gender, race, politics, economics, and culture in the United States today."—Diane L. Wolf, author of Factory Daughters: Gender, Household Dynamics, and Rural Industrialization in Java "Espiritu makes an outstanding contribution to our appreciation of the dynamics of immigrant cultures within the political economy of transnationalism."—Lisa Lowe, author of Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics

Author : Itaru Nagasaka,Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot
Publisher : Springer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137515148

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Mobile Childhoods in Filipino Transnational Families by Itaru Nagasaka,Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot Pdf

Mobile Childhoods in Filipino Transnational Families focuses on the lived experiences of '1.5-generation' migrants with similar 'roots' (the Philippines), traversing different 'routes' (receiving countries). By shedding light on the diversified paths of their migratory lives, it revisits the relationships between mobility, sociality and identity.

Author : Johanna O Zulueta
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782845638

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Thinking Beyond the State by Johanna O Zulueta Pdf

Human mobility has been a widely examined phenomenon in the social sciences, and in this increasingly globalized world migration continues to be of significant concern. The chapters comprising this volume on Thinking Beyond the State address the need to think beyond prevailing state discourses in problematizing human movements between Japan and the Philippines, by focusing on the presence of other actors involved in these processes. This collection investigates a range of issues that are part and parcel of the migration experience: citizenship and nationality, migrant incorporation and integration, human security, migrant welfare, philanthropy, identity, and multiculturalism. The editor and contributors aim to inform the larger public of the realities that are embedded in this particular phenomenon, as well as engage academics involved in migration studies. The book will be a valuable resource to those with professional interests in the East Asian region, most particularly in Japan and the Philippines.

Author : E. San Juan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429721144

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From Exile To Diaspora by E. San Juan Pdf

This book includes essays of the narrative of Filipino lives in the United States to provoke interrogation of the conventional wisdom and a critique of the global system of capital. It helps in constituting the Filipino community as an agent of historic change in a racist society.

Author : Deirdre McKay
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253024985

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An Archipelago of Care by Deirdre McKay Pdf

A study of Filipino caregivers in London and what it says for migrant workers and the networks they build in the global marketplace. Focusing on the experience of Filipino caregivers in London, some of whom are living and working illegally in their host country, Deirdre McKay considers what migrant workers must do to navigate their way in a global marketplace. She draws on interviews and participant observations, her own long-term fieldwork in communities in the Philippines, and digital ethnography to present an intricate consideration of how these caregivers create stability in potentially precarious living situations. McKay argues that these workers gain resilience from the bonding networks they construct for themselves through social media, faith groups, and community centers. These networks generate an elaborate “archipelago of care” through which migrants create their sense of self. “A beautifully written ethnography of Filipino migrants in the UK and their experience of living their lives within and across the UK and the Philippines, mediated by physical space, institutions and a series of digital media.” —Heather Horst, coauthor of Digital Ethnography: Principles and Practices “Deirdre McKay takes a novel approach to key concepts undergirding globalization and transnationalism today—citizenship, surveillance, and security. She makes us think differently about the negotiation of belonging in a digital and hyper-securitized age.” —Jennifer Burrell, author of Maya After War: Conflict, Power, and Politics in Guatemala

Author : Caleb Johnston,Geraldine Pratt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0367138301

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Migration in Performance by Caleb Johnston,Geraldine Pratt Pdf

This book explores the use of creative practices, in particular, theatre, as a platform for enabling new research methodologies and spaces in which to practice politics. It offers insights into the use of theatre as a medium to disseminate research to the wider public and extend the terrain of political debate in productive ways. The book explores debates within transnational feminism and transnational justice to offer new perspectives on affect and performance. It also engages with theory on the liveliness of material objects as actors in networks of knowledge production. In particular, the book provides an insight into the travels of a performance script through national and transnational space, as an opportunity to consider a public debate across nations that have intertwined histories and spatialities on the issues of care and need.

Author : Kristine Aquino
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351781596

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Racism and Resistance among the Filipino Diaspora by Kristine Aquino Pdf

Filipino migrants constitute one of the largest global diasporas today. In Australia, Filipino settlement is markedly framed by the country’s on-going nation-building project that continues to racialise immigrants and delineate the possibilities and limits of belonging to the national community. This book explores the ways in which Filipino migrants in Australia experience, understand and negotiate racism in their everyday lives. In particular, it explores the notion of everyday anti-racism – the strategies individuals deploy to manage racism in their day to day lives. Through case studies based on extensive fieldwork the author shares ethnographic observation and interview material that demonstrate the ways in which Filipinos are racially constituted in Australian society and are subject to everyday racisms that criss-cross different modes of power and domination. Drawing on theoretical approaches in critical race scholarship and the sociology of everyday life, this book illuminates the operation of racism in a multicultural society that persists insidiously in exchanges across a range of public and private spaces. More importantly, it explores the quotidian ways in which ‘victims’ of racism cope with routine racialised domination, an area underdeveloped in anti-racism research that has tended to focus on institutional anti-racism politics. Shedding light on a neglected corner of the global Filipino diaspora and highlighting the complexity of lived experiences in translocal and transnational social fields, this book will be of interest to academics in the field of diaspora and migration studies, the study of race and racism and ethnic minorities, with particular reference to the Asian diaspora.

Author : Glenda Tibe Bonifacio
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774825825

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Pinay on the Prairies by Glenda Tibe Bonifacio Pdf

For many Filipinos, one word � kumusta, how are you � is all it takes to forge a connection with a stranger anywhere in the world. In Canada's prairie provinces, this connection has inspired community building and created both national and transnational identities for the women who identify as pinay. This book is the first to look beyond traditional metropolitan hubs of settlement to explore the migration of Filipino women in Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. Based on interviews with first-generation immigrant Filipino women and temporary foreign workers, Pinay on the Prairies is a revealing study of identity and community in Canada and an exploration of feminism, transnational identities, migration, and diaspora in a global era.

Author : Fides Mae Santos,Grace Guinto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0645757500

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The Calamansi Story by Fides Mae Santos,Grace Guinto Pdf

Filipino migrants are the fifth largest migrant group in Australia. Despite this significant presence, their experiences have rarely received the 'mainstream' spotlight, and their stories are seldom told through their own voices. This community-led publication brings together life histories and personal migration experiences of everyday first and second-generation Filipino migrants. It highlights their spirit, strength, resilience, and important social and economic contributions to Australia. Uniquely, these stories are told through encounters with calamansi - a small, sour and sweet lime, indigenous to the Philippines. The Calamansi Story invites readers to use food as an everyday lens to understand the experience of Filipinos as migrants in Australia. Focusing creative stories, poetry, essays, songs, recipes and artwork on the humble calamansi, the writers and artists featured in this book use food, explicitly and inexplicitly, as a vehicle to navigate settlement, forge senses of belonging, and interrogate the role food plays in the politics of race and multiculturalism in Australia. Maasim (sour) or matamis (sweet), these stories offer a taste of hope, possibility, and action.thecalamansistory.com

Author : Filomenita Mongaya Høgsholm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Filipinos
ISBN : UOM:39015073947007

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In de Olde Worlde by Filomenita Mongaya Høgsholm Pdf

Author : Valerie Francisco-Menchavez
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252050398

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The Labor of Care by Valerie Francisco-Menchavez Pdf

For generations, migration moved in one direction at a time: migrants to host countries, and money to families left behind. The Labor of Care argues that globalization has changed all that. Valerie Francisco-Menchavez spent five years alongside a group of working migrant mothers. Drawing on interviews and up-close collaboration with these women, Francisco-Menchavez looks at the sacrifices, emotional and material consequences, and recasting of roles that emerge from family separation. She pays particular attention to how technologies like Facebook, Skype, and recorded video open up transformative ways of bridging distances while still supporting traditional family dynamics. As she shows, migrants also build communities of care in their host countries. These chosen families provide an essential form of mutual support. What emerges is a fascinating portrait of today's transnational family—sundered, yet inexorably linked over the distances by timeless emotions and new forms of intimacy.

Author : Christl Kessler,Stefan Rother
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Democratization
ISBN : 1498514219

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Democratization Through Migration? by Christl Kessler,Stefan Rother Pdf

This book spearheads a new area of research--the link between migration and democratization. It argues that return migrants can play an important role in the consolidation process of young democracies. Based on original quantitative and qualitative data, it analyzes the political attitudes and experiences of Philippine labor migrants.

Author : Deirdre McKay
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253002228

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Global Filipinos by Deirdre McKay Pdf

The author of An Archipelago of Care documents the experiences of Filipino contract workers from the same village, traveling abroad for jobs. Contract workers from the Philippines make up one of the world’s largest movements of temporary labor migrants. Deirdre McKay follows Filipino migrants from one rural community to work sites overseas and then home again. Focusing on the experiences of individuals, McKay interrogates current approaches to globalization, multi-sited research, subjectivity, and the village itself. She shows that rather than weakening village ties, temporary labor migration gives the village a new global dimension created in and through the relationships, imaginations, and faith of its members in its potential as a site for a better future. “A unique and important study that adds a refreshing and necessary reminder that, on the most fundamental level, a village is part of the global world.” —Nicole Constable, author of Maid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Migrant Workers “A luminous, elegant, and well-argued multi-sited ethnographic study.” —Martin F. Manalansan IV, author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora “The problems of overseas Filipino workers with loneliness; long absences from spouses, children, and other relatives; abuse by employers and governments; and efforts to use their time and talent to further individual opportunities are understood easily in McKay’s monograph. The photos of her Filipino informants . . . add a human touch to the topic of overseas workers. . . . Recommended.” —Choice

Author : Gemma Tulud Cruz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000609899

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Catholicism in Migration and Diaspora by Gemma Tulud Cruz Pdf

This book focuses on the Philippines as a powerhouse in the Catholic and global migration landscape. It offers a wide-ranging look at the roles, dynamics, character, and trajectories of Catholic faith and practice in the age of migration through an interdisciplinary, religious, and theological approach to Filipino Catholics’ experience of migration and diaspora both at home and overseas. In so doing, the book introduces the reader to the hallmarks and characteristics of a contextual model of world Christianity and global Catholicism in the twenty-first century.