Filipino Time : Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor /

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This book examines how a variety of immaterial labor performed by Filipinos in the Philippines and around the world generate and explore vital affects, multiple networks, and other worlds. These forms of living capture life-making capacities within the capitalist world of disruptions and circulation...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Isaac, Allan Punzalan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2022
Edición:First edition
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Household employees.
Foreign workers, Filipino.
Filipinos > Employment > Foreign countries.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Contract labor > Social aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Asian American Studies.
Main-d'oeuvre contractuelle > Aspect social.
Employes de maison > Philippines.
Philippins > Travail > Pays etrangers.
Travailleurs etrangers philippins.
Household employees > Philippines.
Philippines.
Philippines > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Accumulating Time
  • 1 "I've Never Been to Me": Redirecting Arrivals and Returns
  • 2 "Holding Out for Something Better": Timing and Other In-Between Times
  • 3 "I Understand Where You're Coming From": Temporal Migration and Offshore Chronographies
  • 4 "We Have No Time to Wallow": Death and Other Timely Diversions
  • Coda: Presence and Mourning to the Future
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index.

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