Global Filipinos - Migrants'' Lives in the Virtual Village

Informationen zum Autor Deirdre McKay is Senior Lecturer in Geography and Environmental Politics at Keele University. Klappentext She shows that rather than weakening village ties, temporary labor migration gives the village a new global dimension created in and through the relationships, imaginations, and faith of its members in its potential as a site for a better future. Zusammenfassung Discusses changes and continuities produced by globalization Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments On Transliteration Introduction: The Parade 1. Finding the Village 2. Becoming a Global Kind of Woman 3. Failing to Progress 4. New Territories 5. Haunted by Images 6. Moving On 7. Come What May Conclusion: The Virtual Village On Affect: A Methodological Note Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Deirdre Mckay, McKay Deirdre
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.06.2012
• EAN: 9780253002129
• ISBN: 978-0-253-00212-9
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Tracking Globalization; Tracking Globalization
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education