1st Edition
Imagining the Filipino American Diaspora Transnational Relations, Identities, and Communities
By Jonathan Y. Okamura
Copyright 1998
164 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
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Routledge
164 Pages
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Routledge
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First published in 1998. The Philippines play a major role in expanding the international Filipino community through its promotion of international labor migration-Filipinos can currently be found in over 130 countries throughout the world. As the first major work to conceive of Filipino immigration as a diaspora, this study analyses the diasporic nature of Filipino relations, identities, and... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Diaspora as Transnational Social Construction; Chapter 3 Filipino Americans as the Marginalized Minority; Chapter 4 Beyond Adaptation: Immigrant Filipino Ethnicity in Hawai'i; Chapter 5 Writing the Filipino Diaspora in Hawai'i; Chapter 6 Siting the Filipino American Diaspora in Space, Time and Ethnicity; Chapter 7 Imagining the Global Filipino Diaspora References; INDEX;
Biography
Jonathan Y. Okamura
"Valuable in expanding the breadth of analytic scholarship devoted to addressing late-twentieth century population movements and unstable moorings.offer(s) much needed depth to the localized specificities of the transnational experience with all its complex textures, patterns, and consequences. A valuable contribution to the growing scholarship on diaspora as well as on Asian American and Filipino American studies." -- JAAS
