Translocal Circulation: Place and Subjectivity in an Extended Filipino Community

McKay, Deirdre

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“…Instead, those efforts most often are likely to be moderate and periodic, somewhat casual and uneven and not routine' (Barkan 2004, p. 340). Therefore, in order to understand translocality we need to focus on subjectivity-place relations, which are shaped by global flows and inherent dynamics of power and agency, creating new forms of locality (McKay 2006). Translocality usefully allows for the study of the local, which is often overlooked in research on migration, transnationalism and globalization (Brickell and Datta 2011).…”

Section: Theorizing Transnational Ties Beyond the Nation-statementioning

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Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World

Vathi

2015

IMISCOE Research Series

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This series is the official book series of IMISCOE, the largest network of excellence on migration and diversity in the world. It comprises publications which present empirical and theoretical research on different aspects of international migration. The authors are all specialists, and the publications a rich source of information for researchers and others involved in international migration studies.The series is published under the editorial supervision of the IMISCOE Editorial Committee which includes leading scholars from all over Europe. The series, which contains more than eighty titles already, is internationally peer reviewed which ensures that the book published in this series continue to present excellent academic standards and scholarly quality. Most of the books are available open access.For information on how to submit a book proposal, please visit: http://www. imiscoe.org/publications/how-to-submit-a-book-proposal. Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. All commercial rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher's location, in its current version, and permission for commercial use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for commercial use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein.Printed on acid-free paper PrefaceComparative research on migration is a growing trend in academia. Yet very few studies that compare migrants and their descendants across different sites exist. Study of the integration of the children of migrants-the so-called 'second-generation'-is itself a recent trend in social science research and migration literature. Their integration is thought to be an important indicator of the degree of integration of immigrants into a specific society. This book offers an in-depth, qualitative analysis of the integration of Albanian migrants and their descendants in Europe. It is also the first full-l...

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Section: Theorizing Transnational Ties Beyond the Nation-statementioning

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Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World

Vathi

2015

IMISCOE Research Series

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“…It is as though, in arriving singly and not settling in immigrant ghettos as did generations of (mostly male) international migrants in the past, research on female labour migrants takes for granted their lack of a clear sense of place, self and sociality in their daily lives. We build on recent scholarship (Constable 2008(Constable , 2009aMcKay 2005;McKay and Gibson 2005) that goes beyond the study of individual migrants to attend to Asian women's sociality and community building capacity in diaspora; their expanding rights and religious associations, evolving ritual practices, new friendships, changing normativities and the new convivial spaces carved out in the migration context. Second, the notion of diasporic journeys takes seriously the cultural practices of international migrant women, practices that are too often seen as secondary or simply derivative of their subordinate economic status and marginal social position.…”

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Diasporic Encounters, Sacred Journeys: Ritual, Normativity and the Religious Imagination Among International Asian Migrant Women

Johnson

Werbner²

2010

The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology

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This volume draws together recent ethnographic research that challenge conventional assumptions about Asian women's international migration. Whereas the dominant scholarly narrative construes these female migrants as hyper-exploited and compliant workers, we focus on the way migrants challenge their abjection in the alternative spaces they create and in which they live richly complex religious and social lives. Although shaped and constrained by the migration context, overseas female migrants, we argue, nevertheless create alternative worlds of fun, piety and rights activism. Their social lives are not solely structured by marginality, nor are their salient relations exclusively transnational. Rather, in their diasporic encounters, migrants creatively engage with the places and landscapes where they live and labour, sharing conviviality with others like themselves through ritual performance, pilgrimage journeys, mobilisation for rights, religious worship and new intimate relationships. The articles assembled here bear witness to this expansive sociality by disclosing how ritual performances, pious practices and transgressive acts in the diaspora engender novel forms of belonging, enable collective action and defy persistent stereotypes of docile bodies.

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“…For other scholars, it has been employed out of a desire to “reground” (Brickell & Datta, ) and reterritorialise (Smith, ) studies of transnationalism. In her analysis of Filipino workers in Hong Kong, for example, McKay (, p. 275) argues that translocal place‐making amongst migrants constitutes a form of cultural “re‐territorialisation” of locality, where “cultural and social relations are recuperated and reconfigured, rather than lost.”…”

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“…There are also, however, at least three unique and interconnected features of Indigenous rural–urban migration in settler states that we propose may be indicative of a particular postcolonial translocal subjectivity. First, unlike the experience of migrants featured in much of the translocalism literature (e.g., McKay, ; Oakes & Schein, ; Parsons & Lawreniuk, ), Indigenous rural–urban migration in Australia is not a common migration stream. In a highly urbanised country where Indigenous peoples make up 3.3% of the total population, Indigenous rural–urban migration occurs at nowhere near the scale and volume that occurs in many South–North and South–South labour migration streams.…”

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“It doesn't make me any lessAboriginal”: The complex politics of translocal place‐making forIndigenous tertiary student migrants

Harris

Quicke

2018

Population Space and Place

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Indigenous migratory practices have never been comfortably explained using deterministic theories of migration. In this paper, we argue that translocalism offers new hopeful possibilities for building more robust and nuanced understandings of Indigenous migration and for extending theorisations of translocality in postcolonial settler‐states. Drawing on empirical evidence from a small‐scale exploratory study of Indigenous adults who migrated from rural/remote Australia, to Perth, Western Australia, to study at a university, we suggest that a particular politics of place‐making characterises Indigenous translocal subjectivities in settler states. These politics are evidenced by the ways in which the very act of movement from rural/remote areas to large cities for education can draw the authenticity of Indigenous identities into contestation. It also speaks to the resultant importance of translocal networks and places that provide relational spaces to share experiences of, and respond to, these contestations. The participants in this study made use of Indigenous student centres at their universities to develop a sense of place, build translocal networks, nurture their cultural identities, and contest settler assumptions that situate “authentic” Indigenous identities in a remote wilderness past.

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Translocal Circulation: Place and Subjectivity in an Extended Filipino Community

Cited by 33 publications

References 13 publications

Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World

Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World

Diasporic Encounters, Sacred Journeys: Ritual, Normativity and the Religious Imagination Among International Asian Migrant Women

“It doesn't make me any lessAboriginal”: The complex politics of translocal place‐making forIndigenous tertiary student migrants

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