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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451968303321

Autore

McKay Deirdre <1967->

Titolo

Global Filipinos [[electronic resource] ] : migrants' lives in the virtual village / / Deirdre McKay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2012

ISBN

1-280-59636-8

9786613626196

0-253-00222-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Collana

Tracking globalization

Disciplina

331.6/2599

Soggetti

Filipinos - Employment - Foreign countries

Foreign workers, Philippine - Foreign countries

Globalization - Social aspects - Philippines - Haliap

Migrant labor - Philippines - Haliap

Electronic books.

Haliap (Philippines) Economic conditions

Haliap (Philippines) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Finding the village -- Becoming a global kind of woman -- Failing to progress -- New territories -- Haunted by images -- Moving on -- Come what may -- Conclusion : the virtual village -- On affect : a methodological note.

Sommario/riassunto

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