Research Catalog

Title

Diasporic journeys, ritual, and normativity among Asian migrant women / edited by Pnina Werbner and Mark Johnson.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Werbner, Pnina.
• Johnson, Mark.

Description

vi, 256 pages : illustrations, map; 26 cm

Subjects

• Asians > Migrations
• Women immigrants > Religious life
• Asian diaspora
• Asians > Ethnic identity

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Popular religiosity and the 'transnational journey' : inscribing Filipino identity in the Santo Niño fiesta in New Zealand / Josefina Socorro Flores Tondo -- Becoming pilgrims in the 'Holy Land' : on Filipina domestic workers' struggles and pilgrimages for a cause in Israel / Claudia Liebelt -- Buddhism by other means : sacred sites and ritual practice among Sri Lankan domestic workers in Jordan / Elizabeth Frantz -- Explanation is not the point : domestic work, Islamic Dawa and becoming Muslim in Kuwait / Attiya Ahmad -- Telling tales of migrant workers in Hong Kong : transformations of faith, life scripts, and activism / Nicole Constable -- A transnational pig : reconstituting kinship among Filipinos in Hong Kong / Deirdre McKay -- The Catholic Church in the lives of irregular migrant Filipinas in France : identity formation, empowerment and social control / Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot -- 'I need work!' : the multiple roles of the church, ranking and religious piety among domestic workers in Egypt / Amira Ahmed -- Erasure of sexuality and desire : state morality and Sri Lankan migrants in Beirut, Lebanon / Monica Smith -- Filipino women workers in Saudi : making offerings for the here and now and the hereafter / Alicia Pingol -- "They think we are just caregivers" : the ambivalence of care in the lives of Filipino medical workers in Singapore / Megha Amrith -- Diasporic dreams, middle-class moralities and migrant domestic workers among Muslim Filipinos in Saudi Arabia / Mark Johnson -- Afterword : lingering thoughts on migrancy, hopefulness and other worlds / Martin F. Manalansan.

Call Number

JFF 15-1202

ISBN

• 9780415592017
• 0415592011

OCLC

644681517

Title

Diasporic journeys, ritual, and normativity among Asian migrant women / edited by Pnina Werbner and Mark Johnson.

Imprint

London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Werbner, Pnina. Editor

Johnson, Mark. Editor

Research Call Number

JFF 15-1202