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Global Filipinos: Migrants' Lives in the Virtual Village

McKay, Deirdre

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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.

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McKay, D. (2012). Global Filipinos: Migrants' Lives in the Virtual Village. Bloomington: Indiana University Press

Book Type Monograph
Publication Date 2012-06
Deposit Date Feb 29, 2024
Publicly Available Date Mar 5, 2024
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 237
Series Title Tracking Globalisation
ISBN 0253002125; 9780253002051; 9780253002129
Publisher URL https://iupress.org/9780253002051/global-filipinos/
Related Public URLs https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt16gzchz

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