Dr. Diane Sabenacio Nititham presents “Making Home in Diasporic Communities: Transnational Belonging amongst Filipina Migrants”

Making Home in Diasporic Communities: Transnational Belonging amongst Filipina Migrants Making Home in Diasporic Communities

Dr. Diane Sabenacio Nititham

Based upon research in the Philippines and Ireland, Dr. Nititham examines how Filipina diasporans socially and symbolically create a sense of ‘home’. Through modalities of language, rituals and religion and food, Filipinas orient their perceptions, expectations, practices and social spaces to ‘the homeland’, thus providing insight into larger questions of inclusion and exclusion for diasporic communities. The global scope of the Filipino diaspora engages wider scholarship on globalisation and the ways dynamics of nation-state institutions, labour migration and social relationships intersect with transnational communities.

Diane Sabenacio Nititham is assistant professor of sociology at Murray State University. She is author of Making Home in Diasporic Communities: Transnational belonging amongst Filipina migrants (Routledge 2016) and co-editor of Heritage , Diaspora and the Consumption of Culture (Routledge 2014).

This event is co-sponsored by the departments of Asian and Asian American Studies, Human Development, International Studies, and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Generous support was provided by CLA’s Understanding Borders initiative.