Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
On Transliteration
Introduction: The Parade
1. Finding the Village
2. Becoming a Global Kind of Woman
3. Failing to Progress
4. New Territories
5. Haunted by Images
6. Moving On
7. Come What May
Conclusion: The Virtual Village
On Affect: A Methodological Note
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

Changes and continuities produced by globalization

About the Author

Deirdre McKay is Senior Lecturer in Geography and Environmental Politics at Keele University.

Reviews

"A unique and important study that adds a refreshing and necessary reminder that, on the most fundamental level, a village is part of the global world." Nicole Constable, author of Maid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Migrant Workers "A luminous, elegant, and well-argued multi-sited ethnographic study." Martin F. Manalansan IV, author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora