1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of the Filipino Diaspora
Foreword
Rhacel Parrenas
Introduction: Histories, presents and trajectories of global Filipino migration and diaspora
Kristine Aquino, Earvin Cabalquinto, Valerie Francisco-Menchavez
Part I Diaspora as History and Structure
Chapter 1 Racism, Manilamen and First Nations People in Colonial Australia: Entangled Histories
Deborah Ruiz Wall
Chapter 2 Filipinx American Activism and the Political Possibilities of Border Crossing
Michael Schulze-Oechtering Castañeda
Chapter 3 Seafarers in the Filipino Labor Diaspora: Shaping Diasporic Subjects in the Global Maritime Industry
Roderick Galam
Chapter 4 Legal Regimes and Governance on Filipino Migration
Daniela Pila
Chapter 5 The Philippines’ Migration Infrastructure and the Making of Overseas Filipino Workers
Karen Anne S. Liao
Chapter 6 The Philippine Labor Diasporas and Care as a Response to Precarity
Dani Magsumbol
Chapter 7 Memory, Care, and Labour Migration: Re/Membering the Diasporas through Activism
Dani Magsumbol, Kad Mariano, Ethel Tungohan
Chapter 8 Filipino Activism in the Diaspora
Mark John Sanchez
Research Dialogue
Mina Roces
Part II Diaspora as Community and Identity
Chapter 9 The Intersectionalities of “Ginhawa” (Ease) and “Hirap” (Struggle) in the Experiences of Women in Filipino Transnational Families
Ma. Rosel S. San Pascual and Deejay Cromwell V. Sanqui
Chapter 10 Siblingship and Filipino migration over Time
Resto Cruz
Chapter 11 Intermarriages Involving Filipino Migrants in European Contexts: Insights and Research Directions
Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot
Chapter 12 The Lived Experience of Filipino Teachers in the US.: Making Them Visible in the Diaspora
Olivia Panganiban Modesto
Chapter 13 Ethnic Studies Education as an Antidote to Colonial Schooling
Tracy Lachica Buenavista and Michelle C. Velasco
Chapter 14 Leisure Cultures and City-Making Among Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs)
Kristine Aquino
Chapter 15 Digital Filipino Diaspora: Rethinking Connectivity in a Transnational Home
Earvin Charles B. Cabalquinto
Chapter 16 Reimagining Belonging and Queer Identity Subject Formation among the Global Filipinx/a/o: The Multiverse of Queerness
Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza
Chapter 17 Racialized Masculinity of Filipino American Men: A Review of Masculinity Research in Psychology
Edwin G. Carlos Jr., J. Abigail Saavedra, Kevin Carreon Yabes
Chapter 18 Kwentuhan: Storytelling for Personal and Collective Healing Across Generations
Jean-Arellia Tolentino, Donna L. Demanarig, Jeannie E. Celestial, and Gregory G. Desierto
Chapter 19 Migrant Filipino Musicians in Australia
Carljohnson Anacin
Chapter 20 Language Learning Narratives and the Contestation of Precarity of Filipino Au Pairs in Germany
Raymund Vitorio
Chapter 21 Mobilizing Indigeneity in Diaspora
Ruth M. Tindaan
Research Dialogue
Robyn Magalit Rodriguez
Part III Diaspora as unfinished project
Chapter 22 Governing Emigration in the Philippines: Policies, Politics and State Initiatives
Yasmin Y. Ortiga
Chapter 23 Varieties of Return Migration in the Philippines: Migrant Worker Returnees and Reintegration
Kidjie Ian Saguin and Mark Espina
Chapter 24 Irregular Migration and Filipino Migrants in the Netherlands
Lalaine Siruno
Chapter 25 Migration and Border Narratives of Transgender Women from the Philippines: Transpinays in Transit
Brenda Rodriguez Alegre
Chapter 26 Filipino Students in Southeast Asia: Exploring Higher Education Mobility Experiences and their Influence on Employability
Mark Andrew L. Elepaño, Icy F. Anabo, Miguel Antonio Lim
Chapter 27 Filipino Migrant Content Creators as Informal Brokers of Diasporic Life
Samuel I. Cabbuag and Earvin Charles B.Cabalquinto
Chapter 28 Elite Filipino Migrants and Glocal Intimacies: Navigating home and homeland
Cecilia S. Uy-Tioco
Chapter 29 Leaves on the Vine Entanglements of Diasporic Filipinx & Disability Scholar-Activisms:The Emergence of Queer Crip Filipinx Studies & Movement
Pau Abustan
Chapter 30 Filipino Migration and Public Health
Dale Dagar Maglalang and Melissa Cenona Rivera-Llaguno
Chapter 31 Filipino Aging Across Geographies and Generations: Reimagining Legacy Work and Inheritance as Relational and Collective Care Work
Conely de Leon and Ilyan Ferrer
Chapter 32 Remittances, Bayanihan and the Struggles of Typhoon Haiyan Survivors in Tacloban North during COVID-19
Yvonne Su and Ginbert Permejo Cuaton
Research Dialogue
Martin F. Malansan IV
Biography
Kristine Aquino is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. A sociologist and urban ethnographer with research expertise in Filipino migration, her work addresses migration regimes and migrant inequalities in global cities. She is the author of Racism and Resistance among the Filipino Diaspora: Everyday Anti-Racism in Australia (Routledge, 2017) and co-producer of ‘On Sundays, We Play’ (2023) a short film and photo art book documenting the leisure cultures of Filipina migrant domestic workers.
Earvin Charles B. Cabalquinto is an Australian Research Council DECRA Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer at Monash University, Australia. He is also an Honorary Visiting Fellow of the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University. His research expertise lies in the intersections of digital media, mobilities, migration, and ageing research. He is the author of (Im)mobile Homes: Family life at a distance in the age of mobile media and co-authored the book, Philippine Digital Cultures: Brokerage Dynamics on YouTube.
Valerie Francisco-Menchavez is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University. Her first book, The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age is an award-winning title that explores the dynamics of gender and technology of care work and intimacy in Filipino transnational families in the Philippines and the U.S. Her other recently published works include the book Caring for Caregivers: Filipina Migrant Workers and Community Building during Crisis.
