Sexualised citizenship : a cultural history of Philippines-Australian migration / Shirlita Africa Espinosa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Espinosa, Shirlita Africa, author.

Series:

Gender, sexualities and culture in Asia

Gender, Sexualities and Culture in Asia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Filipinos--Migrations--History.

Filipinos.

Filipinos--Foreign countries--History.

Filipinos--Foreign countries.

History.

Filipinos--Migrations.

Physical Description:

xi, 261 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Gateway East, Singapore : Palgrave MacMillan ; [2017]

Summary:

This book considers the intersections of race, gender and class in multicultural Australia through the lens of migration to the country. Focusing on Philippines-born migration, it presents the profile and history of this minority group through an examination of their print material culture over the last 40 years. Particularly, it examines the growth of the production of Filipino cultural identity and the politics of community building relation to the sexualisation of their acquired citizenship. Given the promotion of Australia as a modern, multicultural, Western nation in the Asia-Pacific region, the book questions the based on which this claim stands using the example of Filipino settlement in Australia. Considering the social contradictions that continue to shape multicultural politics in Australia, it examines how the community makes sense of its migration through print material culture. The book analyses the community's responses to their minoritisation to understand how Filipino-Australian migration--the affective and economic appropriation of women's labour--is instructive of the social reality of millions in the global diaspora today. Based on archival and ethnographic research, this text straddles the interdisciplinary fields of gender and cultural studies, and is a key read for all scholars of Asian and Australian area studies--back cover.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Philippine Migration in Multicultural Australia

3. Writing a Cultural History

4. Representations of a Sexualized Citizen

5. Fil-Oz in Blacktown: A Cultural Geography

6. Questionable Solidarity: 'Romances, After All, Start in Various Ways'

7. Class and Filipino-Australia

8. Make-Ordered Bodies

9. The Filipino Elderly: TO Love Is to Labour

10. Filipino-Australian Activism: Decolonising Solidarity and the Search for Identity

11. Conclusions: The Culturalisation of Sexualized Citizenship

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-254) and index.

ISBN:

9789811047435

981104743X

9789811047442

9811047448

OCLC:

982652059