19. The Social Construction of ‘Filipina/o Studies’: Youth Spaces and Subjectivities

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations xi
4. List of Tables xiii
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. Part One: Difference and Recognition
7. 1. Spectres of (In)visibility: Filipina/o Labour, Culture, and Youth in Canada 5
8. 2. Filipino Canadians in the Twenty-First Century: The Politics of Recognition in a Transnational Affect Economy 46
9. 3. Filipino Immigrants in the Toronto Labour Market: Towards an Understanding of Deprofessionalization 68
10. My Folks 89
11. Part Two: Gender, Migration, and Labour
12. Artist Statement 94
13. 4. The Recruitment of Filipino Healthcare Professionals to Canada in the 1960s 97
14. 5. The Rites of Passage of Filipinas in Canada: Two Migration Cohorts 123
15. 6. (Res)sentiment and Practices of Hope: The Labours of Filipina Live-In Caregivers in Filipino Canadian Families 142
16. 7. Debunking Notions of Migrant ‘Victimhood’: A Critical Assessment of Temporary Labour Migration Programs and Filipina Migrant Activism in Canada 161
17. 8. Toronto Filipino Businesses, Ethnic Identity, and Place Making in the Diaspora 181
18. 9. Between Society and Individual, Structure and Agency, Optimism and Pessimism: New Directions for Philippine Diasporic and Transnational Studies 201
19. Part Three: Representation and Its Discontents
20. Artist Statement 220
21. 10. Meet Me in Toronto: The Re-exhibition of Artifacts from the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition at the Royal Ontario Museum 223
22. 11. From the Pearl of the Orient to Uptown: A Collaborative Arts-Based Inquiry with Filipino Youth Activists in Montreal 243
23. 12. Borrowing Privileges: Tagalog, Filipinos, and the Toronto Public Library 265
24. 13. Abject Beings: Filipina/os in Canadian Historical Narrations 284
25. 14. Between the Sheets 305
26. Part Four: Youth Spaces and Subjectivities
27. Artist Statement 318
28. 15. Scales of Violence from the Body to the Globe: Slain Filipino Youth in Canadian Cities 321
29. 16. Kapisanan: Resignifying Diasporic Post/colonial Art and Artists 341
30. 17. Educated Minorities: The Experiences of Filipino Canadian University Students 360
31. 18. Mas Maputi Ako sa ’yo (I’m lighter than you): The Spatial Politics of Intraracial Colourism among Filipina/o Youth in the Greater Toronto Area 382
32. 19. The Social Construction of ‘Filipina/o Studies’: Youth Spaces and Subjectivities 402
33. Part Five: Afterword
34. 20. Contemplating New Spaces in Canadian Studies 417
35. Contributors 427
36. Index 435