Is the Filipino Diaspora a Diaspora?

• Main Author: Aguilar, Filomeno V, Jr
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2015
• Subjects: Overseas Filipinos; Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs); Filipino Americans; immigration; labor migration; diaspora; transnationalism; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/history-faculty-pubs/5; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14672715.2015.1057392
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Despite the widespread popularity of the discourse on diasporas since the 1980s, the recognition of a Filipino diaspora in the wider Anglophone scholarly world did not occur until the mid 2000s. A major factor for this recognition was the considerable number of scholarly works on Filipino Americans...