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Filipino Americans, who experience life in the United States as immigrants, colonized nationals, and racial minorities, are one of our largest immigrant groups. This title investigates how Filipino women and men are transformed through the experience of migration, and how they in turn remake the social world around them.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments 1. Home Making 2. Leaving Home: Filipino Migration/Return to the United States 3. "Positively No Filipinos Allowed": Differential Inclusion and Homelessness 4. Mobile Homes: Lives across Borders 5. Making Home: Building Communities in a Navy Town 6. Home, Sweet Home: Work and Changing Family Relations 7. "We Don't Sleep Around Like White Girls Do": The Politics of Home and Location 8. "What of the Children?": Emerging Homes and Identities 9. Homes, Borders, and Possibilities Notes Bibliography Index

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 05/05/2003
      ISBN13: 9780520235274, 978-0520235274
      ISBN10: 0520235274
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Filipino Americans, who experience life in the United States as immigrants, colonized nationals, and racial minorities, are one of our largest immigrant groups. This title investigates how Filipino women and men are transformed through the experience of migration, and how they in turn remake the social world around them.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments 1. Home Making 2. Leaving Home: Filipino Migration/Return to the United States 3. "Positively No Filipinos Allowed": Differential Inclusion and Homelessness 4. Mobile Homes: Lives across Borders 5. Making Home: Building Communities in a Navy Town 6. Home, Sweet Home: Work and Changing Family Relations 7. "We Don't Sleep Around Like White Girls Do": The Politics of Home and Location 8. "What of the Children?": Emerging Homes and Identities 9. Homes, Borders, and Possibilities Notes Bibliography Index

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