1st Edition
Diasporic Journeys, Ritual, and Normativity among Asian Migrant Women
Introduction Mark Johnson and Pnina Werbner
Part 1: Spiritual Sojourners and Religious Journeys
(a) Ritual and Performance
1. Popular Religiosity and the Transnational Journeys: Inscribing Filipino identity in the Santo Niño Fiesta in New Zealand. Josefina Tondo (PhD Candidate, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
2. Becoming Pilgrims in the ‘Holy Land’: On Filipina Domestic Workers’ Struggles and Pilgrimages for a Cause Claudia Liebelt (Research Institute of Law, Politics & Justice at Keele University, UK)
3. Activism at the Altar? Faith-Based Networks as Social Capital Among Sri Lankan Domestic Workers in Jordan Elizabeth Frantz (Social Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science)
(b) Experiences of Conversion and ‘Difference’
4. Muslim Belongings and Becomings: Migrant Domestic Workers and Islamic Da’wa in Kuwait Attiya Ahmed (Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for International and Regional Studies, Georgetown University, Qatar)
5. Political Ties and Religious Differences: Foreign Domestic Workers in Hong Kong Nicole Constable (Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, USA)
(c) Religious Institutions as Havens
6. ‘Maddad ya om al-awagez’: the Spiritual and Material influence of Religion on the Experiences of Local and Foreign Domestic Workers in Egypt Amira A. Ahmed(Professor, School of Social Science, Media and Cultural Studies. University of East London)
7. The Catholic Church in the Lives of Irregular Migrant Filipinas in France: Identity Formation, Empowerment and Social Control Asuncio Fresnoza-Flot (Unité de Recherche Migration et Société, URMIS, Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot)
8. Intimate desire: Sri Lankan migrant women and the ‘Christian’ State - from Sri Lanka to Lebanon Monica Smith (PhD Candidate, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore)
Part 2: Ethical claims, Intimacy and the Limits of Normativity
9. Diasporic Dreams, Middle Class Moralities and Migrant Domestic Workers among Muslim Filipinos in Saudi Arabia. Mark Johnson (Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Department of Social Sciences, University of Hull)
10. Bodies and Bodies! Offerings for the Here and Now and the Hereafter Alicia Pingol (Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, Ateneo de Manila University)
11. "They think we are just caregivers": the Ambivalence of Care in the Lives of Filipino Medical Workers in Singapore Megha Amrith (PhD Candidate, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge)
12. A transnational pig: Generating cosmopolitan subjectivities within the indigenous Filipino diaspora Deirdre McKay (Senior Lecturer in Social Geography and Environmental Politics, Earth Sciences and Geography, Keele University)
13. Afterword Martin Manalansan IV (Associate Professor of Anthropology, Asian American Studies, University of Illinois)
Biography
Pnina Werbner is Professor of Social Anthropology at Keele University.
Mark Johnson is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at The University of Hull.
