Overview
- Offers a unique read of the issue of migration through the lens of Philippines-Australia cultural history
- Straddles the interdisciplinary fields of gender and cultural studies
- Challenges perceptions of cultural identity, community building and acquired citizenship
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Gender, Sexualities and Culture in Asia (GSCA)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- race, gender and class in Australia
- Migration and Filipino cultural identity
- racialised and gendered marginalisation in migration
- Filipino settlement in Australia
- Migration and the politics of community building
- Minorities and print material culture
- multicultural politics in Australia
- Australian multiculturalism and marriage migration
About this book
This book considers the intersections of race, gender and class in multicultural Australia through the lens of migration to the country. Focusing on Philippines-born migration, it presents the profile and history of this minority group through an examination of their print material culture over the last 40 years. Particularly, it examines the growth of the production of Filipino cultural identity and the politics of community building in relation to the sexualisation of their acquired citizenship. Given the promotion of Australia as a modern, multicultural, Western nation in the Asia-Pacific region, the book questions the bases on which this claim stands using the example of Filipino settlement in Australia. Considering the social contradictions that continue to shape multicultural politics in Australia, it examines how the community makes sense of its migration through print material culture. The book analyses the community’s responses to their minoritisation to understand how Filipino-Australian migration— the affective and economic appropriation of women’s labour—is instructive of the social reality of millions in the global diaspora today. Based on archival and ethnographic research, this text straddles the interdisciplinary fields of gender and cultural studies, and is a key read for all scholars of Asian and Australian area studies.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Shirlita Africa Espinosa, Ph.D. holds a Marie Curie research fellowship at the University of Luxembourg, under the Luxembourg National Research Fund, working on gendered migration, diaspora philanthropy and development. She received her PhD from the University of Sydney in Australia, supported by the Ford International Fellowship, USA, and her thesis was short-listed for Best PhD Thesis in the Social Sciences Award by the International Institute of Asia Scholars.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sexualised Citizenship
Book Subtitle: A Cultural History of Philippines-Australian Migration
Authors: Shirlita Africa Espinosa
Series Title: Gender, Sexualities and Culture in Asia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4744-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-4743-5Published: 23 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5218-8Published: 09 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-4744-2Published: 12 August 2017
Series ISSN: 2662-7884
Series E-ISSN: 2662-7892
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 261
Topics: Migration, Gender Studies, Cultural History, Asian Culture