Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor

This book examines how a variety of immaterial labor performed by Filipinos in the Philippines and around the world generate and explore vital affects, multiple networks, and other worlds. These forms of living capture life-making capacities within the capitalist world of disruptions and circulations of bodies and time.

An interdisciplinary and diasporic approach to Filipino migrant life in the U.S., Italy, Bahrain, Israel, and the Philippines’s “off-shore” call center industry to rethink time, communality, and how people make sense of dislocation and their everyday lives.