The Filipino Migration Experience: Global Agents of Change - Softcover

Roces, Mina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1501785044 ISBN 13: 9781501785047

Publisher: Cornell University Press, 2025

Synopsis

Winner of the New South Wales Premier's History Awards, General History Prize (2022)

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 migrants as 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, drawing on underused primary sources from the "migrant archives" and more than seventy interviews. Bringing together migration studies and Filipina/o/x American studies, The Filipino Migration Experience explores how these migrants have profoundly reshaped the status quo.

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About the Author

Mina Roces is Professor of History at University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. She is author of Gender in Southeast Asia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1501785044
• ISBN 13: 9781501785047
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264