Thesiss

This dissertation argues that Filipino nationalists in California from 1919 to 1946 invoked discourses about the nation in a larger strategy to constitute community. It analyzes how elites tried to define the boundaries of identity and community, instill their standards, and com…

Based upon six weeks of ethnographic field research during the summer of 2011 in Dubai, UAE with Filipina migrant workers and two years of experience living in the emirate, this thesis addresses the complex strategies such women engage in to create quasi-familial networks of soc…