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 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.

Author: Deirdre McKay
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 06/07/2012
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780253002051

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2013

About the Author

Deirdre McKay is Senior Lecturer in Geography and Environmental Politics at Keele University.