Global Filipinos : migrants' lives in the virtual village /
"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 curre...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington, IN :
Indiana University Press,
2012
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| Series: | Tracking globalization.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| 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 as a site for a better future."--Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 247 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-236) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780253002228 0253002222 1280596368 9781280596360 9786613626196 6613626198 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
