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dc.contributor.authorHilsdon, Anne-Marie
dc.contributor.authorGiridharan, Beena
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T10:43:12Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T10:43:12Z
dc.date.created2014-10-28T02:23:20Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.identifier.citationHilsdon, A. and Giridharan, B. 2008. Racialised sexualities: the case of Filipina migrant workers in East Malaysia. Gender, Place and Culture. 15 (6): pp. 611-628.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/5005
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09663690802518529
dc.description.abstract

In national narratives of ‘Malayness’, a specific language (Malay) and religion (Islam) have become key aspects of an identity that excludes migrants and those of ‘questionable’ sexualities. Consequently Filipina migrants working in the nightlife industries in East Malaysia have been subjected to disciplinary discourses of ethnicity and sexuality that underpin these national narratives. Attempts to tighten migration laws and curb nightlife activities have resulted in a racialisation of Filipina migrant sexualities. Using ethnographic methods, this article explains the impacts of dominant state and public discourses of migration, ethnicity and gender, which Filipinas encounter in their everyday lives in their destination country. In the process the article also reveals how Filipinas resist these discourses and hence participate in the formation of their subjectivity.

dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.titleRacialised sexualities: the case of Filipina migrant workers in East Malaysia
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume15
dcterms.source.number6
dcterms.source.startPage611
dcterms.source.endPage628
dcterms.source.issn0966-369X
dcterms.source.titleGender, Place and Culture
curtin.departmentSchool of Social Sciences and Asian Languages
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