Book description
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 current approaches to globalization, multi-sited
research, subjectivity, and the village itself. 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.
"A unique and important study that adds a refreshing and
necessary reminder that, on the most fundamental level, a village is
part of the global world." -Nicole Constable, author of Maid to
Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Migrant Workers
Deirdre McKay is Senior Lecturer in Geography and Environmental
Politics at Keele University.
