Changing Migration Policy from the Margins: Filipino Activism on Behalf of Victims of Domestic Violence in Australia, 1980s–2000

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The Filipino Migration Experience: Global Agents of Change by Mina Roces, Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2021, ix + 254 pp.

“…Part 3 has three original chapters, except Chapter 6 previously published as a book chapter (Roces 2019). Filipina/o/x American migrants have become historians and custodians of their “heroic narrative” of Filipinos in the United States as “hardworking laborers who suffered terrible racial discrimination, relentless exploitation, and extremely harsh environments, including physical violence” (p. 91).…”