TY - BOOK ID - 80748344 TI - An archipelago of care : Filipino migrants and global networks PY - 2016 SN - 0253024986 9780253024985 9780253024671 0253024676 9780253024831 0253024838 PB - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Service industries workers KW - Household employees KW - Kankanay (Philippine people) KW - Foreign workers, Filipino KW - Domestic employees KW - Domestic service employees KW - Domestic service workers KW - Domestics KW - Household staff KW - Household workers KW - Servants KW - Service employees, Domestic KW - Service workers, Domestic KW - Employees KW - Central Kankanaey (Philippine people) KW - Kangkanay (Philippine people) KW - Kankana-ey (Philippine people) KW - Kankanaey (Philippine people) KW - Kankanai (Philippine people) KW - Southern Kankana-ey (Philippine people) KW - Southern Kankanai (Philippine people) KW - Ethnology KW - Igorot (Philippine people) KW - Alien labor, Philippine KW - Filipino foreign workers KW - Foreign workers, Philippine KW - Philippine foreign workers KW - Service industries KW - Social networks KW - #SBIB:39A6 KW - Etniciteit / Migratiebeleid en -problemen UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80748344 AB - "Focusing on the experience of Filipino caregivers in London, some of whom are living and working illegally in their host country, Deirdre McKay considers what migrant workers must do to navigate their way in a global marketplace. She draws on interviews and participant observations, her own long-term fieldwork in communities in the Philippines, and digital ethnography to present an intricate consideration of how these caregivers create stability in potentially precarious living situations. McKay argues that these workers gain resilience from the bonding networks they construct for themselves through social media, faith groups, and community centers. These networks generate an elaborate "archipelago of care" through which migrants create their sense of self"-- ER -