Format:
Online-Ressource (xi, 271 p)
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520235274
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0520227557
Content:
Filipino Americans, who experience life in the United States as immigrants, colonized nationals, and racial minorities, have been little studied, though they are one of our largest immigrant groups. Based on her in-depth interviews with more than one hundred Filipinos in San Diego, California, Yen Le Espiritu investigates how Filipino women and men are transformed through the experience of migration, and how they in turn remake the social world around them. Her sensitive analysis reveals that Filipino Americans confront U.S. domestic racism and global power structures by living transnational l
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-265) and index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Home Making; 2. Leaving Home: Filipino Migration/Return to the United States; 3. "Positively No Filipinos Allowed": Differential Inclusion and Homelessness; 4. Mobile Homes: Lives across Borders; 5. Making Home: Building Communities in a Navy Town; 6. Home, Sweet Home: Work and Changing Family Relations; 7. "We Don't Sleep Around Like White Girls Do": The Politics of Home and Location; 8. "What of the Children?": Emerging Homes and Identities; 9. Homes, Borders, and Possibilities; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T
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UV; W; Y
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520235274
Additional Edition:
Print version Home Bound : Filipino American Lives across Cultures, Communities, and Countries
Language:
English
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