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Balikbayan Love Poems

Author : Dalila G. Agtani
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1483646785
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Balikbayan Love Poems written by Dalila G. Agtani and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07-05 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a short of time, the spate exchange of communications through love poems evidently realized to more or less 300 murals expressed in words developed into full blown affection, a manifestation of their love like lovebirds emanating purely from their hearts agreeing finally the publication this of simple collection become a book not for commercial purposes but to share to the world. Since one is a balikbayan having been in the US for more than two decades and her admirer didnt stop longing, searching and praying, thus the Almighty destined, ultimately granted their path had crossed again.. Without much ado, everything was done, from cyber - face book and e-mails to their face to face meetings a love was borne into reality. Consequently, a K1 petition for her admirer-suitor-fiancee and on January 2nd last year they knotted their vows. Out of this relationship, a heroic bond, this book of poetry to becoming Balikbayan Love Poems, a first of its kind their own collection of their works vividly recalled.thus this balikbayan with their poems calendaring solid oneness what has been conceived would become a reality Balikbayan Love Poems. Philippine settings and US settings were interlaced in this book as the duo conceived a dual existence. Most of the love poems were published in Poetry Soup, a well-known web-based site for poets. The poems were copyrighted by the authors. Contracting a well experienced publication XLIBRIS, this book of poetry mostly expressed in free verses, with rhyming, and several forms of poetry soon be released. Depicting their love of arts and aesthetic genuiness his illustration and her pictures taken in far north a kaleidoscope of sand dunes and a kubo near the China Sea in Paoay, Ilocos Norte, Philippines, a universal site where romance with natural environs nurtured.- the AUTHORS

Encyclopedia of Diasporas

Author : Melvin Ember
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0306483211
Total Pages : 1263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Diasporas written by Melvin Ember and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-11-30 with total page 1263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immigration is a topic that is as important among anthropologists as it is the general public. Almost every culture has experienced adaptation and assimilation when immigrating to a new country and culture; usually leaving for what is perceived as a "better life". Not only does this diaspora change the country of adoption, but also the country of origin. Many large nations in the world have absorbed, and continue to absorb, large numbers of immigrants. The foreseeable future will see a continuation of large-scale immigration, as many countries experience civil war and secessionist pressures. Currently, there is no reference work that describes the impact upon the immigrants and the immigrant societies relevant to the world's cultures and provides an overview of important topics in the world's diasporas. The encyclopedia consists of two volumes covering three main sections: Diaspora Overviews covers over 20 ethnic groups that have experienced voluntary or forced immigration. These essays discuss the history behind the social, economic, and political reasons for leaving the original countries, and the cultures in the new places; Topics discusses the impact and assimilation that the immigrant cultures experience in their adopted cultures, including the arts they bring, the struggles they face, and some of the cities that are in the forefront of receiving immigrant cultures; Diaspora Communities include over 60 portraits of specific diaspora communities. Each portrait follows a standard outline to facilitate comparisons. The Encyclopedia of Diasporas can be used both to gain a general understanding of immigration and immigrants, and to find out about particular cultures, topics and communities. It will prove of great value to researchers and students, curriculum developers, teachers, and government officials. It brings together the disciplines of anthropology, social studies, political studies, international studies, and immigrant and immigration studies.

Balikbayan

Author : Michelle Cruz Skinner
Publisher : Bess Press
ISBN 13 : 9781573062909
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Balikbayan written by Michelle Cruz Skinner and published by Bess Press. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published in 1986, Balikbayan is a collection of short stories written by Michelle Cruz Skinner, articulately depicting contemporary Philippine culture. These are wonderful stories, and they offer rare and timeless insights into the Philippines now and in the recent past. Rare because Michelle Cruz Skinner is a born-and-raised Filipina but also an American, so her vision bridges both worlds. Timeless because we are made to care for the people in these stories, especially the young people, and the human heart is universal. It's a remarkable accomplishment for a first book, even for a clearly-talented writer. - Robert Shapard, editor of Sudden Fiction Balikbayan is an excellent and convincing presentation of the ironies and contradictions of contemporary Philippines culture, with a fine sense of character and, particularly, visual detail. - Ian Macmillan, author of Proud Monster

Building Diaspora

Author : Emily Ignacio
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 081353514X
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Building Diaspora written by Emily Ignacio and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emily Noelle Ignacio explores how Filipinos have used the Internet's subtle, cyber, but very real social connections to construct and reinforce a sense of national, ethnic, and racial identity with distant others.

Geo-Spatiality in Asian and Oceanic Literature and Culture

Author : Shiuhhuah Serena Chou
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031040473
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Geo-Spatiality in Asian and Oceanic Literature and Culture written by Shiuhhuah Serena Chou and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection opens the geospatiality of “Asia” into an environmental framework called "Oceania" and pushes this complex regional multiplicity towards modes of trans-local solidarity, planetary consciousness, multi-sited decentering, and world belonging. At the transdisciplinary core of this “worlding” process lies the multiple spatial and temporal dynamics of an environmental eco-poetics, articulated via thinking and creating both with and beyond the Pacific and Asia imaginary.

Queering the Global Filipina Body

Author : Gina K. Velasco
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252052358
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Queering the Global Filipina Body written by Gina K. Velasco and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary popular culture stereotypes Filipina women as sex workers, domestic laborers, mail order brides, and caregivers. These figures embody the gendered and sexual politics of representing the Philippine nation in the Filipina/o diaspora. Gina K. Velasco explores the tensions within Filipina/o American cultural production between feminist and queer critiques of the nation and popular nationalism as a form of resistance to neoimperialism and globalization. Using a queer diasporic analysis, Velasco examines the politics of nationalism within Filipina/o American cultural production to consider an essential question: can a queer and feminist imagining of the diaspora reconcile with gendered tropes of the Philippine nation? Integrating a transnational feminist analysis of globalized gendered labor with a consideration of queer cultural politics, Velasco envisions forms of feminist and queer diasporic belonging, while simultaneously foregrounding nationalist movements as vital instruments of struggle.

Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore and Folklife [3 volumes]

Author : Jonathan H. X. Lee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313350671
Total Pages : 1498 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore and Folklife [3 volumes] written by Jonathan H. X. Lee and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page 1498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive compilation of entries documents the origins, transmissions, and transformations of Asian American folklore and folklife. Equally instructive and intriguing, the Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore and Folklife provides an illuminating overview of Asian American folklore as a way of life. Surveying the histories, peoples, and cultures of numerous Asian American ethnic and cultural groups, the work covers everything from ancient Asian folklore, folktales, and folk practices that have been transmitted and transformed in America to new expressions of Asian American folklore and folktales unique to the Asian American historical and contemporary experiences. The encyclopedia's three comprehensive volumes cover an extraordinarily wide range of Asian American cultural and ethnic groups, as well as mixed-race and mixed-heritage Asian Americans. Each group section is introduced by a historical overview essay followed by short entries on topics such as ghosts and spirits, clothes and jewelry, arts and crafts, home decorations, family and community, religious practices, rituals, holidays, music, foodways, literature, traditional healing and medicine, and much, much more. Topics and theories are examined from crosscultural and interdisciplinary perspectives to add to the value of the work.

Postcolonial Configurations

Author : Josen Masangkay Diaz
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478023961
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Configurations written by Josen Masangkay Diaz and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-19 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Postcolonial Configurations Josen Masangkay Diaz examines the making of Filipino America through the dynamics of dictatorship, coloniality, and subjectivity. Diaz explores how the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship and US policies during the Cold War that supported the regime defined the relationship between “Filipino” and “America” in ways that influenced the creation of a gendered and racialized Filipino American subject. By analyzing Philippine-US state programs for military operations, labor and immigration reform, and development and modernization plans, she shows how anticommunist liberalism and authoritarianism shaped the visibility and recognition of new forms of Filipino subjectivity. Tracing the rise of various social formations that emerged under the Marcos regime and US programs for liberal reform, from transnational Filipino and US culture and the immigrant returnee to the New Filipina woman and the humanitarian English teacher, Diaz positions literature, film, periodicals, and other cultural texts against official state records in ways that reconceptualize the meanings of Filipino America in the Cold War.

The Somatechnics of Whiteness and Race

Author : Elaine Marie Carbonell Laforteza
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317015169
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Somatechnics of Whiteness and Race written by Elaine Marie Carbonell Laforteza and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigating the emergence of a specific mestiza/mestizo whiteness that facilitates relations between the Philippines and Western nations, this book examines the ways in which the construction of a particular form of Philippine whiteness serves to deploy positions of exclusion, privilege and solidarity. Through Filipino, Filipino-Australian, and Filipino-American experiences, the author explores the operation of whiteness, showing how a mixed-race identity becomes the means through which racialised privileges, authority and power are embodied in the Philippine context, and examines the ways in which colonial and imperial technologies of the past frame contemporary practices such as skin-bleaching, the use of different languages, discourses of bilateral relations, secularism, development, and the movement of Filipino, Australian and American bodies between and within nations. Drawing on key ideas expressed in critical race and whiteness studies, together with the theoretical concepts of somatechnics, biopolitics and governmentality, The Somatechnics of Whiteness and Race sheds light on the impact of colonial and imperial histories on contemporary international relations, and calls for a 'queering' or resignification of whiteness, which acknowledges permutations of whiteness fostered within national boundaries, as well as through various nation-state alliances and fractures. As such, it will appeal to scholars of cultural studies, sociology and politics with interests in whiteness, postcolonialism and race.

Official Gazette

Author : Philippines
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Official Gazette written by Philippines and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Food Parcels in International Migration

Author : Diana Mata-Codesal
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319403737
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Food Parcels in International Migration written by Diana Mata-Codesal and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes food parcels as a vehicle for exploring relationships, intimacy, care, consumption, exchange, and other fundamental anthropological concerns, examining them in relation to wider transnational spaces. As the contributors to this volume argue, food and its related practices offer a window through which to examine the reconciliation of people’s localised intimate experiences with globalising forces. Their analyses contribute to an embodied and sensorial approach to social change by examining migrants and their families’ experiences of global connectedness through familiar objects and narratives. By bringing in in-depth ethnographic insights from different social and economic contexts, this book widens the understanding of the lived experiences of mobility and goes beyond the divide between origin and destination countries, therefore contributing to new ways of thinking about migration and transnationalism that take into consideration the materiality of global connections and the way such connections are embodied and experienced at the local level.

Asian and Pacific Cosmopolitans

Author : K. Robinson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023059204X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Asian and Pacific Cosmopolitans written by K. Robinson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-11-06 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new collection of essays explores questions of subjectification, selfhood and identity in the contemporary Asia Pacific, examining the way that migrant lives express the complex interplay of local and global processes in the post-Cold War era, and collectively questioning the novelty of the 'global age' in this region.

Migrant Returns

Author : Eric J. Pido
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822373122
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Migrant Returns written by Eric J. Pido and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Migrant Returns Eric J. Pido examines the complicated relationship among the Philippine economy, Manila’s urban development, and balikbayans—Filipino migrants visiting or returning to their homeland—to reconceptualize migration as a process of connectivity. Focusing on the experiences of balikbayans returning to Manila from California, Pido shows how Philippine economic and labor policies have created an economy reliant upon property speculation, financial remittances, and the affective labor of Filipinos living abroad. As the initial generation of post-1965 Filipino migrants begin to age, they are encouraged to retire in their homeland through various state-sponsored incentives. Yet, once they arrive, balikbayans often find themselves in the paradoxical position of being neither foreign nor local. They must reconcile their memories of their Filipino upbringing with American conceptions of security, sociality, modernity, and class as their homecoming comes into collision with the Philippines’ deep economic and social inequality. Tracing the complexity of balikbayan migration, Pido shows that rather than being a unidirectional event marking the end of a journey, migration is a multidirectional and continuous process that results in ambivalence, anxiety, relief, and difficulty.

White Love and Other Events in Filipino History

Author : Vicente L. Rafael
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822380757
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book White Love and Other Events in Filipino History written by Vicente L. Rafael and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this wide-ranging cultural and political history of Filipinos and the Philippines, Vicente L. Rafael examines the period from the onset of U.S. colonialism in 1898 to the emergence of a Filipino diaspora in the 1990s. Self-consciously adopting the essay form as a method with which to disrupt epic conceptions of Filipino history, Rafael treats in a condensed and concise manner clusters of historical detail and reflections that do not easily fit into a larger whole. White Love and Other Events in Filipino History is thus a view of nationalism as an unstable production, as Rafael reveals how, under what circumstances, and with what effects the concept of the nation has been produced and deployed in the Philippines. With a focus on the contradictions and ironies that suffuse Filipino history, Rafael delineates the multiple ways that colonialism has both inhabited and enabled the nationalist discourse of the present. His topics range from the colonial census of 1903-1905, in which a racialized imperial order imposed by the United States came into contact with an emergent revolutionary nationalism, to the pleasures and anxieties of nationalist identification as evinced in the rise of the Marcos regime. Other essays examine aspects of colonial domesticity through the writings of white women during the first decade of U.S. rule; the uses of photography in ethnology, war, and portraiture; the circulation of rumor during the Japanese occupation of Manila; the reproduction of a hierarchy of languages in popular culture; and the spectral presence of diasporic Filipino communities within the nation-state. A critique of both U.S. imperialism and Filipino nationalism, White Love and Other Events in Filipino History creates a sense of epistemological vertigo in the face of former attempts to comprehend and master Filipino identity. This volume should become a valuable work for those interested in Southeast Asian studies, Asian-American studies, postcolonial studies, and cultural studies.

Nations Unbound

Author : Linda Basch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000159264
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Nations Unbound written by Linda Basch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nations Unbound is a pioneering study of an increasing trend in migration-transnationalism. Immigrants are no longer rooted in one location. By building transnational social networks, economic alliances and political ideologies, they are able to cross the geographic and cultural boundaries of both their countries of origin and of settlement. Through ethnographic studies of immigrant populations, the authors demonstrate that transnationalism is something other than expanded nationalism. By placing immigrants in a limbo between settler and visitor, transnationalism challenges the concepts of citizenship and of nationhood itself.

Global Asian American Popular Cultures

Author : Shilpa Dave
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479867098
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Global Asian American Popular Cultures written by Shilpa Dave and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 6. David Choe's "KOREANS GONE BAD": The LA Riots, Comparative Racialization, and Branding a Politics of Deviance -- Part II. Making Community -- 7. From the Mekong to the Merrimack and Back: The Transnational Terrains of Cambodian American Rap -- 8. "You'll Learn Much about Pakistanis from Listening to Radio": Pakistani Radio Programming in Houston, Texas -- 9. Online Asian American Popular Culture, Digitization, and Museums -- 10. Asian American Food Blogging as Racial Branding: Rewriting the Search for Authenticity

Laws for Life

Author : Gianna Reyes Montinola
Publisher : Anvil Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9712731332
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book Laws for Life written by Gianna Reyes Montinola and published by Anvil Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features simple answers to everyday questions like: My name is misspelled in my birth certificate. How do I correct this? • Does an illegitimate child have a middle name? • How do I apply for an NBI clearance? • What are the requirements when buying real properties? • How do I apply for a bank loan? • What are the grounds for legal separation and annulment? • Should I write a last will and testament? • How do I settle the estate of a deceased loved one? “This book is an invaluable vade mecum for all manner of things to do. It is an excellent walking companion for any and all who have to negotiate the obstacle courses that are the public and private bureaucracies. To employ a more modern image, it is an unerring GPS through the labyrinth of modern living . . .” “Starting with birth and ending with death, it covers the ‘basket-to-casket’ range of questions and problems that arise in our work-a-day activities, whether these occur frequently or once in a lifetime . . .” — From the Foreword by Rubén F. Balane, Ateneo Law School professor