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In the Country
by Mia Alvar
Nine Filipinos. Nine countries. One diaspora holding them together.
For you if
you want to understand the Filipino diaspora through the specific cost it extracts from the people who live it
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Nine stories about Filipinos in motion — in Manila, in Bahrain, in New York, in Saudi Arabia — all of them displaced, all of them sending money home, all of them navigating the specific experience of being Filipino in a world that needs Filipino labor but has no category for Filipino personhood. Alvar writes with precision about the OFW — the Overseas Filipino Worker — and what that designation does to a family, a marriage, a self. The most contemporary Filipino dispatch on this shelf and the one that understands the diaspora as a structure rather than a personal choice.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Philippines • Southeast Asia
- Voice
- Written by a Filipino author
- Themes
- War & Displacement
