Sexualised Citizenship : A Cultural History of Philippines-Australian Migration.
Espinosa, Shirlita Africa.
Sexualised Citizenship : A Cultural History of Philippines-Australian Migration. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (267 pages) - Gender, Sexualities and Culture in Asia Series . - Gender, Sexualities and Culture in Asia Series .
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Philippine Migration in Multicultural Australia -- Migration Down Under -- Hyperfeminised Migration -- Sexualised Citizenship -- Complications of Multiculturalism -- Chapter 3 Writing a Cultural History -- Migrant Material Culture -- Cultural History and the Multicultural Economy -- The Uses of Oral and Archival Histories -- Reflections on Doing Migrant Cultural History -- Chapter 4 Representations of a Sexualised Citizen -- The Politics of Representation -- The 'Filipino', the 'Filipina', the 'Philippines': A Look at Australian Dailies -- Chapter 5 Fil-Oz in Blacktown: A Cultural Geography -- 'Whites', 'Wogs' and 'Wongs' -- Western Sydney: Imagining a Ghetto -- Fil-Oz, a Fair Go? -- Filipino-Australian Newspapers -- Australia's Ethnic Media -- Chapter 6 Questionable Solidarity: 'Romances, After All, Start in Various Ways' -- I, the 'Mail-Order Bride': Documenting Feminised Migration -- Race for Distinction: Because not All 'Brides' Are Created Equal -- The Politics of 'Achievement': Surfacing the Hidden Trauma -- Chapter 7 Class and Filipino-Australians -- The Philippines and Its Classes -- Filipinos as Working Class Australians -- Chinese- and Spanish-Filipino Mestizos -- Old Manila: 'What Those Times Were!' -- Valorising Middle Class Migrants -- For the Masses -- Chapter 8 Male-Ordered Bodies -- Body, Sex and Reproductive Labour -- The 'Puta', the Wife and the Bourgeois Intellectual -- The Story of Adelia Netty -- Nativist and Sexist Points of View -- Passing: Anything but Filipino -- Learning Australian English -- Chapter 9 The Filipino Elderly: To Love Is to Labour -- The Ani Anthology -- Love and Domesticity Amongst the Elderly -- Who Is Taking Care of the Elderly? -- 'Hidden' Immigrants and Their Labour. Chapter 10 Filipino-Australian Activism: Decolonising Solidarity and the Search for Identity -- Pacific Intersections: Communism and 'Trotskyite' Australians -- From International Solidarity to Migrant Activism -- The 'First Split': Decolonising Solidarity -- Claiming Epistemic Privilege: Who Is the Local Now? -- The 'Second Split': To Reject or to Reaffirm -- Chapter 11 Conclusions: The Culturalisation of Sexualised Citizenship -- References -- Index.
9789811047442
Ethnology-Asia.
Electronic books.
JV6001-9480
Sexualised Citizenship : A Cultural History of Philippines-Australian Migration. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (267 pages) - Gender, Sexualities and Culture in Asia Series . - Gender, Sexualities and Culture in Asia Series .
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Philippine Migration in Multicultural Australia -- Migration Down Under -- Hyperfeminised Migration -- Sexualised Citizenship -- Complications of Multiculturalism -- Chapter 3 Writing a Cultural History -- Migrant Material Culture -- Cultural History and the Multicultural Economy -- The Uses of Oral and Archival Histories -- Reflections on Doing Migrant Cultural History -- Chapter 4 Representations of a Sexualised Citizen -- The Politics of Representation -- The 'Filipino', the 'Filipina', the 'Philippines': A Look at Australian Dailies -- Chapter 5 Fil-Oz in Blacktown: A Cultural Geography -- 'Whites', 'Wogs' and 'Wongs' -- Western Sydney: Imagining a Ghetto -- Fil-Oz, a Fair Go? -- Filipino-Australian Newspapers -- Australia's Ethnic Media -- Chapter 6 Questionable Solidarity: 'Romances, After All, Start in Various Ways' -- I, the 'Mail-Order Bride': Documenting Feminised Migration -- Race for Distinction: Because not All 'Brides' Are Created Equal -- The Politics of 'Achievement': Surfacing the Hidden Trauma -- Chapter 7 Class and Filipino-Australians -- The Philippines and Its Classes -- Filipinos as Working Class Australians -- Chinese- and Spanish-Filipino Mestizos -- Old Manila: 'What Those Times Were!' -- Valorising Middle Class Migrants -- For the Masses -- Chapter 8 Male-Ordered Bodies -- Body, Sex and Reproductive Labour -- The 'Puta', the Wife and the Bourgeois Intellectual -- The Story of Adelia Netty -- Nativist and Sexist Points of View -- Passing: Anything but Filipino -- Learning Australian English -- Chapter 9 The Filipino Elderly: To Love Is to Labour -- The Ani Anthology -- Love and Domesticity Amongst the Elderly -- Who Is Taking Care of the Elderly? -- 'Hidden' Immigrants and Their Labour. Chapter 10 Filipino-Australian Activism: Decolonising Solidarity and the Search for Identity -- Pacific Intersections: Communism and 'Trotskyite' Australians -- From International Solidarity to Migrant Activism -- The 'First Split': Decolonising Solidarity -- Claiming Epistemic Privilege: Who Is the Local Now? -- The 'Second Split': To Reject or to Reaffirm -- Chapter 11 Conclusions: The Culturalisation of Sexualised Citizenship -- References -- Index.
9789811047442
Ethnology-Asia.
Electronic books.
JV6001-9480