Racism and Resistance among the Filipino Diaspora: Everyday Anti-racism in Australia

Filipino migrants in Australia experience, understand, and negotiate racism in their everyday lives, with the notion of everyday anti-racism being explored. The book draws on theoretical approaches in critical race scholarship and the sociology of everyday life to illuminate the operation of racism in a multicultural society. It sheds light on a neglected corner of the global Filipino diaspora and highlights the complexity of lived experiences in translocal and transnational social fields.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 144 pages
Publication date: 31 March 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Filipino migrants are one of the largest global diasporas today, and their settlement in Australia is shaped by the country's ongoing nation-building project, which continues to racialize immigrants and delineate the possibilities and limits of belonging to the national community. This book explores the ways in which Filipino migrants in Australia experience, understand, and negotiate racism in their everyday lives. It focuses on the notion of everyday anti-racism, the strategies individuals deploy to manage racism in their day-to-day lives. Through case studies based on extensive fieldwork, the author shares ethnographic observation and interview material that demonstrate the ways in which Filipinos are racially constituted in Australian society and are subject to everyday racisms that criss-cross different modes of power and domination. Drawing on theoretical approaches in critical race scholarship and the sociology of everyday life, this book illuminates the operation of racism in a multicultural society that persists insidiously in exchanges across a range of public and private spaces. More importantly, it explores the quotidian ways in which 'victims of racism cope with routine racialized domination, an area underdeveloped in anti-racism research that has tended to focus on institutional anti-racism politics. Shedding light on a neglected corner of the global Filipino diaspora and highlighting the complexity of lived experiences in translocal and transnational social fields, this book will be of interest to academics in the field of diaspora and migration studies, the study of race and racism, and ethnic minorities, with particular reference to the Asian diaspora.

Weight: 286g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367787219