Differentiating Sedimented from Modular Transnationalism: The View from East Asia

• Main Author: Aguilar, Filomeno V, Jr
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2012
• Subjects: South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/history-faculty-pubs/14; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/011719681202100202
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

The dominant literature on transnationalism regards it as an alternative way of framing immigration, but the a priori exclusion of labor migrants from the scope of migrant transnationalism is untenable. Evidence from East Asia suggests that labor migrants, who are compelled by the prevailing policy...