| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (159 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This book examines how a variety of immaterial labor performed by Filipinos in the Philippines and around the world generate and explore vital affects, multiple networks, and other worlds. These forms of living capture life-making capacities within the capitalist world of disruptions and circulations of bodies and time. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Accumulating Time -- 1 "I've Never Been to Me": Redirecting Arrivals and Returns -- 2 "Holding Out for Something Better": Timing and Other In-Between Times -- 3 "I Understand Where You're Coming From": Temporal Migration and Offshore Chronographies -- 4 "We Have No Time to Wallow": Death and Other Timely Diversions -- Coda: Presence and Mourning to the Future -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Foreign workers, Filipino.
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Filipinos -- Employment -- Foreign countries.
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Household employees -- Philippines.
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Contract labor -- Social aspects.
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Philippines -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Asian American Studies. |
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Contract labor -- Social aspects |
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects |
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Filipinos -- Employment -- Foreign countries |
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Foreign workers, Filipino |
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Household employees |
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Philippines |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Isaac, Allan Punzalan. Filipino time. First edition. New York : Fordham University Press, [2022] 9780823298525 (DLC) 2021037934 (OCoLC)1233163493 |
| ISBN |
9780823298556 (electronic book) |
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0823298558 (electronic book) |
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082329854X (electronic book) |
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9780823298549 (electronic book) |
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9780823298525 (hardback) |
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0823298523 (hardback) |
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9780823298532 (paperback) |
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0823298531 (paperback) |
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