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Title: "We all share the same blood" : the glocalization of the Philippine diaspora : the case for Malta
Authors: Romano, Jeffrey (2008)
Keywords: Filipino diaspora
Filipinos -- Malta
Glocalization -- Malta
Issue Date: 2008
Citation: Romano, J. (2008). "We all share the same blood": the glocalization of the Philippine diaspora: the case for Malta (Bachelor's dissertation).
Abstract: The notion of 'diaspora' suggests the idea of a people who have departed from their homeland yet still maintain links with fellow friends and family back in the migrants' place of origin. The vast increase in the amount of migration all throughout the world has proliferated the number of diasporas beyond the original Jewish Diaspora. Today several types of diaspora exist. In the case of the Philippine diaspora, the majority of the migrants voyage between various countries mostly for labour purposes. In continuity with the rest of Philippine migration worldwide, in Malta, most of the migrants are women working as domestic workers or else in the caring industry. Despite only arriving in Malta in the late 1970s, the Filipinas have made efforts to formally organize themselves into a community. More significantly, the migrants are continuously creating and maintaining transnational links with other parts of the diaspora, partly for purposes of bettering their socio-economic position. A number of migrants choose to return to their homeland after achieving their original goals for migrating. However, these are not always clear-cut and due to processes such as integration and re-diasporization, the migrants end up forging important relationships delaying the eventual return to the homeland.
Description: B.A.(HONS)ANTHROPOLOGY
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/79525
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