Join the CMS Borders research group on February 28, from 3:00 to 5:00 PM at The Liu Institute for Global Issues, The Place of Many Trees, for a book talk by Dr. Sharon Quinsaat on Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Sociologist Sharon M. Quinsaat sheds new light on the formation of diasporic connections through transnational protests.
When people migrate and settle in other countries, do they automatically form a diaspora? In Insurgent Communities, Quinsaat explains the dynamic process through which a diaspora is strategically constructed. She looks to Filipinos in the United States and the Netherlands—examining their resistance against the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos, their mobilization for migrants’ rights, and the construction of a collective memory of the Marcos regime—to argue that diasporas emerge through political activism. Social movements provide an essential space for addressing migrants’ diverse experiences and relationships with their homeland and its history. A significant contribution to the interdisciplinary field of migration and social movements studies, Insurgent Communities illuminates how people develop collective identities in times of social upheaval.
Sharon Quinsaat is a scholar of social movements and migration and currently Associate Professor of Sociology at Grinnell College. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Association of University Women among others. She has published her research in edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Mass Communication and Society, Sociology Compass, and Asian Survey.
This event is co-sponsored by the UBC Pacific Islands Research Network.
