"Valuable in expanding the breadth of analytic scholarship devoted to addressing late-twentieth century population movements and unstable moorings.offer(s) much needed depth to the localized specificities of the transnational experience with all its complex textures, patterns, and consequences. A valuable contribution to the growing scholarship on diaspora as well as on Asian American and Filipino American studies." -- JAAS
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Diaspora as Transnational Social Construction; Chapter 3 Filipino Americans as the Marginalized Minority; Chapter 4 Beyond Adaptation: Immigrant Filipino Ethnicity in Hawai'i; Chapter 5 Writing the Filipino Diaspora in Hawai'i; Chapter 6 Siting the Filipino American Diaspora in Space, Time and Ethnicity; Chapter 7 Imagining the Global Filipino Diaspora References; INDEX;