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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Filipina"”.
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Embodying scales of Filipina/o American sporting life: transnational sporting cultures and practices in the Filipina/o diaspora
This multi-sited ethnographic study examines how Filipina/o Americans take up sporting cultures and practices in Southern California in the twenty-first century. Sporting cultures and practices broadly refers to playing, actively engaging, and consuming sports. Filipina/o Americans have long been …
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Transition program for internationally educated Filipina nurses
… lived experiences of internationally educated Filipina nurses (IEFNs) who migrated to Alabama to join the U.S. nursing workforce and to help alleviate the critical shortage of nurses. The goal of this research was to address the lack of transition programs for IEFNs in facilitating their …
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The appearance of Filipina nationalism: body, nation, empire
… the connections between gendered embodiment and Filipina nationalism from 1898 to 1941. In both the colonial Philippines and the United States, Filipino women actively constructed their own national identities through the stylized presentation of their physical bodies in order to navigate through …
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The Educational Dimensions of Filipina Migrant Workers’ Activist Identities
… workers worldwide, with the large majority of Filipina migrants working in traditional gendered labor such as domestic work, care giving, nursing, teaching, and factory work (Ruiz, 2013). Because of the private nature of household work, Filipina migrants are vulnerable to mental and physical …
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Spatial empowerment : the appropriation of public spaces by Filipina domestic workers in Hong Kong
On a typical Sunday afternoon, hundreds of Filipina domestic workers (FDW) gather on the floor of public spaces in prime real estate areas of downtown Hong Kong. Over the last few decades, Hong Kong experienced rapid economic growth and industrialization, which led to an increase of middle class …
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Medical modernity: Rethinking the health work of Filipina women under Spanish and U.S. colonial rule, 1870-1948
“Medical Modernity: Rethinking the Health Work of Filipina Women Under Spanish and U.S. Colonial Rule, 1870-1948,” is a history of colonial medicine from the perspective of women who had a range of health encounters with colonial officials. It makes three claims. First, I argue that modern medicine …
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Caring Work: Opening a Space of Possibility for Exploring Transnational Feminist Solidarity Between Privileged and Marginalized Women
… I examine specifically the narratives of a Filipina caregiver and a Filipina care administrator in the Inland Empire. I argue that caring work opens a space of possibility for building transnational feminist alliances because it enables BeLonging, loving, and transformation.</p>
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Anti -Imperialism During the Philippine -American War: Protesting 'Criminal Aggression' and 'Benevolent Assimilation
… protested the use of extreme violence against Filipinas/os, including the ""water cure"" (precursor to ""waterboarding"") and ""reconcentration"" camps, during the Philippine-American War. The project focuses on two related issues: (1) the chronological development of anti-imperialisms in the …
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Mission policies of the Episcopal Church in the Philippines (ECP), 1901-1980: their contribution to the regional character of the Church
… Filipinos in partnership with the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI), the concentration of its work amongst the marginalized people in the Cordillera and Mindanao was further enhanced. From 1962 to 1980, the church adopted parallel policies of devolution – Filipinization of leadership - …