Diasporic Journeys, Ritual, and Normativity among Asian Migrant Women

Introduction Part 1: Spiritual Sojourners and Religious Journeys (a) Ritual and Performance 1. Popular Religiosity and the 'Transnational Journey': Inscribing Filipino identity in the Santo Nino Fiesta in New Zealand 2. Becoming Pilgrims in the 'Holy Land': On Filipina Domestic Workers' Struggles and Pilgrimages for a Cause in Israel 3. Buddhism by Other Means: Sacred Sites and Ritual Practice Among Sri Lankan Domestic Workers in Jordan (b) Experiences of Conversion, 'Difference' and Transnationalism 4. Explanation is Not the Point: Domestic Work, Islamic Da'wa and Becoming Muslim in Kuwait 5. Telling Tales of Migrant Workers in Hong Kong: Transformations of Faith, Life Scripts, and Activism 6. A Transnational Pig: Reconstituting Kinship Among Filipinos in Hong Kong (c) Religious Institutions as Havens: Gender and Normativity 6. The Catholic Church in the Lives of Irregular Migrant Filipinas in France: Identity Formation, Empowerment and Social Control 7. 'I need work!': The Multiple Roles of the Church, Ranking and Religious Piety Among Domestic Workers in Egypt 8. Erasure of Sexuality and Desire: State Morality and Sri Lankan Migrants in Beirut, Lebanon Part 2: Ethical claims, Intimacy and the Limits of Normativity 9. Filipino Women Workers in Saudi: Making Offerings for the Here and Now and the Hereafter 10. "They think we are just caregivers": the Ambivalence of Care in the Lives of Filipino Medical Workers in Singapore 11. Diasporic Dreams, Middle-Class Moralities and Migrant Domestic Workers Among Muslim Filipinos in Saudi Arabia. 13. Afterword Martin Manalansan IV