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Ghosts of Futures Present: Photographs in the Filipino Migrant Archive

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McKay, Deirdre

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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.

dc.contributor.authorMcKay, Deirdre
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-08T22:40:20Z
dc.identifier.issn0894-9468
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/36457
dc.description.abstractThis 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.
dc.publisherRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group
dc.sourceVisual Anthropology
dc.titleGhosts of Futures Present: Photographs in the Filipino Migrant Archive
dc.typeJournal article
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.citationvolume21
dc.date.issued2008
local.identifier.absfor160403 - Social and Cultural Geography
local.identifier.ariespublicationu9008537xPUB136
local.type.statusPublished Version
local.contributor.affiliationMcKay, Deirdre, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.bibliographicCitation.issue4
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage381
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage92
local.identifier.doi10.1080/08949460802156466
dc.date.updated2015-12-08T10:22:47Z
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-47949109776
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