Filipinos in Canada : : Disturbing Invisibility / / Roland Sintos Coloma, Bonnie McElhinny, Ethel Tungohan, John Paul Catungal, Lisa M. Davidson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Coloma, Roland Sintos,; Davidson, Lisa M. ,; McElhinny, Bonnie,; Tungohan, Ethel,
• MitwirkendeR: Aguinaldo, Jeffrey P.,; Angeles, Leonora C.,; Astorga-Garcia, Mila,; Balmes, Christine,; Catungal, John Paul C.,; Catungal, John Paul c.,; Coloma, Roland Sintos,; Correa, Celia,; Daga, Jean Marc,; Damasco, Valerie G.,; Davidson, Lisa M.,; De Leon, Conely,; Eric, Josephine,; Esguerra, Enrico F.,; Kelly, Philip F.,; Largo, Marissa,; Mahtani, Minelle,; McElhinny, Bonnie,; Mendoza, Maureen Grace,; Polvorosa, Cesar,; Pratt, Geraldine,; Roberts, David,; Sarumugam, Reuben,; Sayo, Carlo,; Taguba, Bryan,; Tigley, Eric B.,; Totanes, Vernon R.,; Tungohan, Ethel,; Ty, Eleanor,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (448 p.) :; 3 figures; 1 map

The Philippines became Canada's largest source of short- and long-term migrants in 2010, surpassing China and India, both of which are more than ten times larger. The fourth-largest racialized minority group in the country, the Filipino community is frequently understood by such figures as the...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Part One: Difference and Recognition
• 1. Spectres of (In)visibility: Filipina/o Labour, Culture, and Youth in Canada
• 2. Filipino Canadians in the Twenty-First Century: The Politics of Recognition in a Transnational Affect Economy
• 3. Filipino Immigrants in the Toronto Labour Market: Towards an Understanding of Deprofessionalization
• My Folks
• Part Two: Gender, Migration, and Labour
• Artist Statement
• 4. The Recruitment of Filipino Healthcare Professionals to Canada in the 1960s
• 5. The Rites of Passage of Filipinas in Canada: Two Migration Cohorts
• 6. (Res)sentiment and Practices of Hope: The Labours of Filipina Live-In Caregivers in Filipino Canadian Families
• 7. Debunking Notions of Migrant 'Victimhood': A Critical Assessment of Temporary Labour Migration Programs and Filipina Migrant Activism in Canada
• 8. Toronto Filipino Businesses, Ethnic Identity, and Place Making in the Diaspora
• 9. Between Society and Individual, Structure and Agency, Optimism and Pessimism: New Directions for Philippine Diasporic and Transnational Studies
• Part Three: Representation and Its Discontents
• Artist Statement
• 10. Meet Me in Toronto: The Re-exhibition of Artifacts from the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition at the Royal Ontario Museum
• 11. From the Pearl of the Orient to Uptown: A Collaborative Arts-Based Inquiry with Filipino Youth Activists in Montreal
• 12. Borrowing Privileges: Tagalog, Filipinos, and the Toronto Public Library
• 13. Abject Beings: Filipina/os in Canadian Historical Narrations
• 14. Between the Sheets
• Part Four: Youth Spaces and Subjectivities
• Artist Statement
• 15. Scales of Violence from the Body to the Globe: Slain Filipino Youth in Canadian Cities
• 16. Kapisanan: Resignifying Diasporic Post/colonial Art and Artists
• 17. Educated Minorities: The Experiences of Filipino Canadian University Students
• 18. Mas Maputi Ako sa 'yo (I'm lighter than you): The Spatial Politics of Intraracial Colourism among Filipina/o Youth in the Greater Toronto Area
• 19. The Social Construction of 'Filipina/o Studies': Youth Spaces and Subjectivities
• Part Five: Afterword
• 20. Contemplating New Spaces in Canadian Studies
• Contributors
• Index