Insurgent Communities

How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora

AvSharon M. Quinsaat

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Sociologist Sharon M. Quinsaat sheds new light on the formation of diasporic connections through transnational protests. When people migrate and settle in other countries, do they automatically form a diaspora? In Insurgent Communities, Sharon M. Quinsaat explains the dynamic process through which a diaspora is strategically constructed. Quinsaat looks to Filipinos in the United States and the Netherlands—examining their resistance against the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos, their mobilization for migrants’ rights, and the construction of a collective memory of the Marcos regime—to argue that diasporas emerge through political activism. Social movements provide an essential space for addressing migrants’ diverse experiences and relationships with their homeland and its history. A significant contribution to the interdisciplinary field of migration and social movements studies, Insurgent Communities illuminates how people develop collective identities in times of social upheaval.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-03-08
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:313 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226831688

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Sharon M. Quinsaat is a scholar of social movements and migration and an associate professor of sociology at Grinnell College. She has published her research in Mobilization, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Mass Communication and Society, Sociology Compass, and Asian Survey.

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“Insurgent Communities is a book I could not recommend more. It is a brilliant sociological study on the political activism of Filipinos inside and outside of the homeland. A must-read for scholars of migration and social movements, it illustrates how a diaspora is not just a shared identity, but instead a political accomplishment.”

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List of AbbreviationsPrefaceIntroduction1 Movement(s) and Identities: Toward a Theory of Diaspora Construction through Contention2 Roots and Routes: Global Migration of Filipinos3 Patriots and Revolutionaries: Anti-Dictatorship Movement and Loyalty to the Homeland4 Workers and Minorities: Mobilizations for Migrants’ Rights and Ethnic/National Solidarity5 Storytellers and Interlocutors: Collective Memory Activism and Shared HistoryConclusionAcknowledgmentsAppendix: MethodologyNotesReferencesIndex