Global Filipinos
Subtitle: migrants' lives in the virtual village
By: Deirdre McKay
Series: Tracking globalization
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780253002129; 9780253002051; 9780253002228
Subjects: Filipinos; Globalization; Economic conditions; Philippine Foreign workers; Social conditions; Employment; Migrant labor
Description: 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 labour 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Finding the village; title: Becoming a global kind of woman; title: Failing to progress; title: New territories; title: Haunted by images; title: Moving on; title: Come what may; title: Conclusion : the virtual village; title: On affect : a methodological note.