Global Filipinos : migrants' lives in the virtual village / Deirdre McKay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKay, Deirdre, 1967-

Series:

Tracking globalization.

Tracking globalization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Filipinos--Employment--Foreign countries.

Filipinos.

Foreign workers, Filipino--Foreign countries.

Foreign workers, Filipino.

Globalization--Social aspects--Philippines--Haliap.

Globalization.

Migrant labor--Philippines--Haliap.

Migrant labor.

Haliap (Philippines)--Economic conditions.

Haliap (Philippines).

Haliap (Philippines)--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2012.

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613626196

9781280596360

1280596368

9780253002228

0253002222

OCLC:

794663269