Transportation: Translating Filipino and Filipino American Tomboy Masculinities through Global Migration and Seafaring
@article{Fajardo2008TransportationTF, title={Transportation: Translating Filipino and Filipino American Tomboy Masculinities through Global Migration and Seafaring}, author={Kale Bantigue Fajardo}, journal={GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies}, year={2008}, volume={14}, pages={403 - 424} }
Recently, the New York Times featured a report on the rising numbers of global migrants who collectively send oceanic-size remittances back home to the global south. The Sunday Magazine cover includes a photograph of a Filipina nurse — posed as abandoned, forlorn, and castaway — wearing medical scrubs, white shoes in hand, barefoot on a distant shore (Abu Dhabi?), aquamarine waters in the background; while inside the magazine a lengthy article discusses growing waves of migration from the…
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