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'Sending Dollars Shows Feeling' - Emotions and Economies in Filipino Migration (2007)
Journal Article
McKay. (2007). 'Sending Dollars Shows Feeling' - Emotions and Economies in Filipino Migration. Mobilities, 175 - 194. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450100701381532

This paper analyses the conceptualization of gender, relationships, and emotions that underpin ‘care chains’ approaches to Filipino labour migration. In a case study of long-distance intimacy and economic transfers in an extended Filipino family, I s... Read More about 'Sending Dollars Shows Feeling' - Emotions and Economies in Filipino Migration.

Introduction: Finding ‘the Field’: the Problem of Locality in a Mobile World (2007)
Journal Article
McKay. (2007). Introduction: Finding ‘the Field’: the Problem of Locality in a Mobile World. Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 197 - 202. https://doi.org/10.1080/14442210600965141

Place is usually considered the backdrop for motion—the ‘where’ that people move to or from. Yet contemporary processes of migration and circulation produce increasingly porous and even mobile places. Mobility offers us new ways to perceive distance—... Read More about Introduction: Finding ‘the Field’: the Problem of Locality in a Mobile World.

Translocal Circulation: Place and Subjectivity in an Extended Filipino Community (2007)
Journal Article
McKay. (2007). Translocal Circulation: Place and Subjectivity in an Extended Filipino Community. Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 265 - 278. https://doi.org/10.1080/14442210600979357

As migration and mobility produce new subject positions, they transform and extend locality and create both new subjective experiences of place and new subjectivities. This paper explores the culture of circulation that emerges between a migrant send... Read More about Translocal Circulation: Place and Subjectivity in an Extended Filipino Community.