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Global Filipinos: Migrants' Lives in the Virtual Village
Contributor(s): McKay, Deirdre (Author)

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 ISBN: 0253002052     ISBN-13: 9780253002051
Publisher: Indiana University Press
OUR PRICE: $26.60  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 2012
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
- Social Science | Emigration & Immigration
- Political Science | Globalization
Dewey: 331.625
LCCN: 2012000165
Series: Tracking Globalization
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.95 lbs) 264 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Southeast Asian
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Choice 01/01/2013
 
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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.
 
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