Insurgent Communities : How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora
ISBN: 9780226831671
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / University of Chicago Press
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Subjects: Social Science; History;

Sociologist Sharon M. Quinsaat sheds new light on the formation of diasporic connections through transnational protests.

When people migrate and settle in other countries, do they automatically form a diaspora? In Insurgent Communities , Sharon M. Quinsaat explains the dynamic process through which a diaspora is strategically constructed. Quinsaat looks to Filipinos in the United States and the Netherlands--examining their resistance against the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos, their mobilization for migrants' rights, and the construction of a collective memory of the Marcos regime--to argue that diasporas emerge through political activism. Social movements provide an essential space for addressing migrants' diverse experiences and relationships with their homeland and its history. A significant contribution to the interdisciplinary field of migration and social movements studies, Insurgent Communities illuminates how people develop collective identities in times of social upheaval.

Sharon M. Quinsaat is a scholar of social movements and migration and an associate professor of sociology at Grinnell College. She has published her research in Mobilization , Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies , Ethnic and Racial Studies , Mass Communication and Society , Sociology Compass, and Asian Survey .

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