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



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Autore: McKay Deirdre <1967-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Global Filipinos [[electronic resource] ] : migrants' lives in the virtual village / / Deirdre McKay Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
Disciplina: 331.6/2599
Soggetto topico: Filipinos - Employment - Foreign countries
Foreign workers, Philippine - Foreign countries
Globalization - Social aspects - Philippines - Haliap
Migrant labor - Philippines - Haliap
Soggetto geografico: Haliap (Philippines) Economic conditions
Haliap (Philippines) Social conditions
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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
Titolo autorizzato: Global Filipinos  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-59636-8
9786613626196
0-253-00222-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910451968303321
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Serie: Tracking globalization.