Global Filipinos: Migrants' Lives in the Virtual Village
Deirdre MckayContract workers from the Philippines make up one of the worlds 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.
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Anno:
2012
Casa editrice:
Indiana Univ Pr
Lingua:
english
Pagine:
247
ISBN 10:
0253002125
ISBN 13:
9780253002129
File:
PDF, 2.25 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2012