Ghosts of Futures Present: Photographs in the Filipino Migrant Archive |
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| Authors: | Deirdre McKay |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Dept. of Sociology &2. Anthropology , Hebrew University , Jerusalem, Israel |
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| Abstract: | This article explores the role of photographs in shaping the social selves of Filipino temporary labor migrants. Examining the production of photographic self-images by Filipino migrants in Hong Kong and their reception in the Philippines, I show how people deploy photography as a technology to bring into being their desired future selves. By making present ghosts of the future, photographs of the self shape distinctive translocal subjectivities. |
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