Kristine Aquino

Racism and Resistance among the Filipino Diaspora

Everyday Anti-racism in Australia

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the ways in which Filipino migrants in Australia experience, understand and negotiate racism in their everyday lives. In particular, it explores the notion of everyday anti-racism - the strategies individuals deploy to manage racism in their day to day lives. The author also shares case studies based on extensive fieldwork.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 227g
• ISBN-13: 9780367787219
• ISBN-10: 0367787210
• Artikelnr.: 61211834

Autorenporträt

Kristine Aquino is Lecturer in Global Studies at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Her research interests are in the study of global migration, transnationalism, race and ethnicity, and everyday multiculturalism in urban life.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Histories of the 'Filipino' in Australia and beyond
3. Coping with honorary whiteness: Aspirant middle class Filipino migrants
4. Reclaiming rights, morality and esteem: The dignity of working class
Filipino migrants
5. 'Mail Order Bride' or loving wife? Revisiting the experience of Filipina
'marriage migrants'
6. More than a game: Embodied resistance among young Filipino-Australian
street ballers
7. Conclusion