The Filipino Migration Experience: Global Agents of Change

Product Description

The Filipino Migration Experience introduces a new dimension to the usual depiction of migrants as disenfranchised workers or marginal ethnic groups. Mina Roces suggests alternative ways of conceptualizing Filipino migrantsas critics of the family and cultural constructions of sexuality, as consumers and investors, as philanthropists, as activists, and, as historians. They have been able to transform fundamental social institutions and well-entrenched traditional norms, as well as alter the business, economic and cultural landscapes of both the homeland and the host countries to which they have migrated.
Mina Roces tells the story of the Filipino migration experience from the perspective of the migrants themselves, tapping into hitherto underused primary sources from the “migrant archives” and more than 70 interviews. Bringing the fields of Filipino migration studies and Filipina/o/x American studies together, this book analyzes some of the areas where Filipino migrants have forever changed the status quo.

Review

“The Filipino Migration Experience deftly gives voice to Filipino migrants themselves while tracing Filipino migration that spans almost half a century.” — Robyn Magalit Rodriguez, University of California at Davis, author of 
Migrants for Export

“Mina Roces significantly alters the portrait of global Filipino migration and offers a new perspective on migrants’ influence that extends beyond labor. The Filipino Migration Experience documents and demonstrates how migrants have also become agents of change in varied arenas?as consumers, historians, activists, and philanthropists.” — Denise Cruz, Columbia University, author of 
Transpacific Femininities

Review

“Mina Roces significantly alters the portrait of global Filipino migration and offers a new perspective on migrants’ influence that extends beyond labor. The Filipino Migration Experience documents and demonstrates how migrants have also become agents of change in varied arenas―as consumers, historians, activists, and philanthropists.” — Denise Cruz, Columbia University, author of 
Transpacific Femininities

About the Author

Mina Roces is Professor of History at University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. She is author of Women’s Movements and the Filipina, 1986-2008, Kinship Politics in Postwar Philippines, and Women, Power, and Kinship Politics.