Global Filipinos : migrants' lives in the virtual village

Global Filipinos : migrants' lives in the virtual village / Deirdre McKay.

"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 curre...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McKay, Deirdre, 1967-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2012.
Series:Tracking globalization.
Subjects:
Filipinos > Employment > Foreign countries.
Foreign workers, Filipino > Foreign countries.
Migrant labor > Philippines > Haliap.
Globalization > Social aspects > Philippines > Haliap.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Economic history
Filipinos > Employment > Foreign countries
Globalization > Social aspects
Migrant labor
Social conditions
Haliap (Philippines) > Social conditions.
Haliap (Philippines) > Economic conditions.
Philippines > Haliap
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Table of Contents:
  • Finding the village
  • Becoming a global kind of woman
  • Failing to progress
  • New territories
  • Haunted by images
  • Moving on
  • Come what may
  • Conclusion : the virtual village
  • On affect : a methodological note.

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