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  • Migrants for Export

    How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World

    by Robyn Magalit Rodriguez ...
    Migrant workers from the Philippines are ubiquitous to global capitalism, with nearly 10 percent of the population employed in almost two hundred countries. In a visit to the United States in 2003, Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo even referred to herself as not only the head of state but also “the CEO of a global Philippine enterprise of eight million Filipinos who live and work ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Balikbayan

    A Revenant History of the Filipino Homeland

    by Adrian De Leon, Robyn Magalit Rodriguez ...
    Series series Critical Filipinx Studies
    How migrants imagined a country through their acts of returnWhat does it mean to go back home, especially when “home” is shaped by conquest, labor, and longing? This question has animated the experiences of global migrants displaced by imperialism, capital, and the nation-states that have sought to manage their movements for their own political and economic benefit. Through vivid storytelling, ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • In Lady Liberty's Shadow

    The Politics of Race and Immigration in New Jersey

    by Robyn Magalit Rodriguez ...
    Home to Ellis Island, New Jersey has been the first stop for many immigrant groups for well over a century. Yet in this highly diverse state, some of the most anti-immigrant policies in the nation are being tested. American suburbs are home to increasing numbers of first and second-generation immigrants who may actually be bypassing the city to settle directly into the neighborhoods that their ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Contemporary Asian American Activism

    Building Movements for Liberation

    Edited by Diane C. Fujino, Robyn Magalit Rodriguez ...
    In the struggles for prison abolition, global anti-imperialism, immigrant rights, affordable housing, environmental justice, fair labor, and more, twenty-first-century Asian American activists are speaking out and standing up to systems of oppression. Creating emancipatory futures requires collective action and reciprocal relationships that are nurtured over time and forged through cross-racial ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Rurality and Education

    Edited by Barbara Pini, Robyn Mayes, Laura Rodriguez Castro ...
    This book broadens the scope of the subject of rural education and enlivens the ways in which the subject may be studied. Through textual and visual analysis of a range of sources – including young adult novels, the farming simulation game ‘Hay Day’ and reality television programs – the contributors investigate how the lives of young people in rural spaces are mediated by a range of social ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Transnational Citizenship Across the Americas

    Edited by Ulla Berg, Robyn Rodriguez ...
    Mass migrations, diasporas, dual citizenship arrangements, neoliberal economic reforms and global social justice movements have in recent decades produced shifting boundaries and meanings of citizenship within and beyond the Americas. In migrant-receiving countries, this has raised questions about extending rights to newcomers. In migrant-sending countries, it has prompted states to search for new ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • We Are Revolution

    Transnational Filipino American Activism for Liberation

    by Joy Sales, Robyn Magalit Rodriguez ...
    Series series Critical Filipinx Studies
    Radicals across borders unite against empire, dictatorship, and enduring legacies of oppressionReframing Filipino American history through the radical politics of its diaspora, Joy Sales uncovers how generations of Filipinos, scattered across the Pacific, forged transnational movements that confronted US empire and Philippine authoritarianism. From the sugarcane strikes of the 1920s to the student ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Asian America

    by Pawan Dhingra, Robyn Magalit Rodriguez ...
    Asian Americans are the fastest growing minority population in the country. Moreover, they provide a unique lens on the wider experiences of immigrants and minorities in the United States, both historically and today. Pawan Dhingra and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez’s acclaimed introduction to understanding this diverse group is here updated in a thoroughly revised new edition. Incorporating cutting-edge ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Caring for Caregivers

    Filipina Migrant Workers and Community Building during Crisis

    by Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, Robyn Magalit Rodriguez ...
    Series series Critical Filipinx Studies
    A transformative look at the lives of Filipina care workers and their mutual aid practicesMigrant workers have long been called upon to sacrifice their own health to provide care in facilities and private homes throughout the United States. What draws them to such exploitative, low-wage work, and how do they care for themselves? In Caring for Caregivers, Valerie Francisco-Menchavez centers the ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Fight the Tower

    Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy

    by Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde, Wei Ming Dariotis, Shirley Hune, W P, Eliza Noh, Jane Junn, Mai’a K. Davis Cross, Cara Maffini Pham, Melody Yee0, Jing Mai1, Shannon Deloso2, Kaozong N. Mouavangsou3, Cindy Nhi Huynh4, Akiko Takeyama5, Rani Neutill6, Brett J. Esaki7, Grace J. Yoo8, Melissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano9, Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales0, Genevieve Erin O’Brien1, Robyn Magalit Rodriguez2 ...
    Asian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the particular ways they are marginalized by the intersectionalities of race and gender in academia. Although Asian American studies critics have long since debunked the model minority myth that constructs Asian Americans as the ideal academic subject, university administrators still treat Asian ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

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  • Gender and Migration

    by Caroline B. Brettell ...
    Series series Immigration and Society
    Gender roles, relations, and ideologies are major aspects of migration. This timely book argues that understanding gender relations is vital to a full and more nuanced explanation of both the causes and the consequences of migration, in the past and at present. Through an exploration of gendered labor markets, laws and policies, and the transnational model of migration, Caroline Brettell tackles a ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Contemporary Asian America (third edition)

    A Multidisciplinary Reader

    Edited by Min Zhou, Anthony Christian Ocampo ...
    The third edition of the foundational volume in Asian American studiesWho are Asian Americans? Moving beyond popular stereotypes of the “model minority” or “forever foreigner,” most Americans know surprisingly little of the nation’s fastest growing minority population. Since the 1960s, when different Asian immigrant groups came together under the “Asian American” umbrella, they have tirelessly ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD