Diasporic Journeys, Ritual, and Normativity Among Asian Migrant Women (Hardcover)

Introduction  Part 1: Spiritual Sojourners and Religious Journeys  (a) Ritual and Performance  1. Popular Religiosity and the 'Transnational Journey': Inscribing Filipino identity in the Santo Nino Fiesta in New Zealand  2. Becoming Pilgrims in the ‘Holy Land’: On Filipina Domestic Workers’ Struggles and Pilgrimages for a Cause in Israel  3. Buddhism by Other Means: Sacred Sites and Ritual Practice Among Sri Lankan Domestic Workers in Jordan  (b) Experiences of Conversion, ‘Difference’ and Transnationalism  4. Explanation is Not the Point: Domestic Work, Islamic Da’wa and Becoming Muslim in Kuwait  5. Telling Tales of Migrant Workers in Hong Kong: Transformations of Faith, Life Scripts, and Activism   6.  A Transnational Pig: Reconstituting Kinship Among Filipinos in Hong Kong  (c) Religious Institutions as Havens: Gender and Normativity  6. The Catholic Church in the Lives of Irregular Migrant Filipinas in France: Identity Formation, Empowerment and Social Control  7. 'I need work!': The Multiple Roles of the Church, Ranking and Religious Piety Among Domestic Workers in Egypt  8. Erasure of Sexuality and Desire: State Morality and Sri Lankan Migrants in Beirut, Lebanon  Part 2: Ethical claims, Intimacy and the Limits of Normativity  9. Filipino Women Workers in Saudi: Making Offerings for the Here and Now and the Hereafter  10. "They think we are just caregivers": the Ambivalence of Care in the Lives of Filipino Medical Workers in Singapore  11. Diasporic Dreams, Middle-Class Moralities and Migrant Domestic Workers Among Muslim Filipinos in Saudi Arabia.  13. Afterword  Martin Manalansan IV