1st Edition
Racism and Resistance among the Filipino Diaspora Everyday Anti-racism in Australia
By Kristine Aquino
Copyright 2018
154 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
154 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
154 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Filipino migrants constitute one of the largest global diasporas today. In Australia, Filipino settlement is markedly framed by the country’s on-going nation-building project that continues to racialise immigrants and delineate the possibilities and limits of belonging to the national community.
This book explores the ways in which Filipino migrants in Australia experience, understand and... Read more
1. Introduction
2. Histories of the ‘Filipino’ in Australia and beyond
3. Coping with honorary whiteness: Aspirant middle class Filipino migrants
4. Reclaiming rights, morality and esteem: The dignity of working class Filipino migrants
5. ‘Mail Order Bride’ or loving wife? Revisiting the experience of Filipina ‘marriage migrants'
6. More than a game: Embodied resistance among young Filipino-Australian street ballers
7. Conclusion
Biography
Kristine Aquino is Lecturer in Global Studies at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Her research interests are in the study of global migration, transnationalism, race and ethnicity, and everyday multiculturalism in urban life.
