In this episode, We speak to Prof. Sharon Quinsaat, faculty of Grinnell College and author of the new book, "Insurgent Communities: How Protest create a Filipino Diaspora?." In the book, she documents the emphatic activism among Filipino migrants abroad and how they contribute to Filipino politics despite being far from the homeland, giving us new ways on how to look at what it means to be a Filipino.


0:00 Music
0:15 Intro
3:00 Prof. Sharon's Origin
8:50 Why write the book?
12:30 Who are the insurgent communities?
18:30 Why are they insurgent?
24:05 Diaspora in the United States and the Netherlands
31:30 Conflict building Diaspora
44:12 Polarization in the Diaspora
51:15 How effective are these insurgent communities?
58:50 Oppositional Consciousness
59:40 Strengths and weakness of insurgent communities
1:03:20 Social Media and Diaspora
1:06:40 Regarding overseas Filipinos
1:09:05 New answers to What is a Filipino?
1:23:00 Recommendations

You may get a copy of Prof. Sharon's book here:
https://www.amazon.com/Insurgent-Communities-Protests-Filipino-Diaspora/dp/0226831663

You can find more of Prof. Sharon's work at the links below:
Website:https://sharonquinsaat.com/
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/misharona/?hl=en
X(Formerly Twitter):https://x.com/smquinsaat?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Recommendations:

Transnational Repression in the Age of Globalisation edited by Dana Moss and Saipira Furstenberg
https://www.amazon.com/Transnational-Repression-Globalisation-Edinburgh-Transnationalism/dp/1399506064

Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building and Communities of Care by Ethel Tungohan
https://www.amazon.com/Care-Activism-Domestic-Movement-Building-Communities/dp/0252087402

Unfree: Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States
https://www.amazon.com/Unfree-Migrant-Domestic-Work-States/dp/1503629651


Courting Migrants: How States Make Diasporas and Diasporas Make States. By Katrina Burgess
https://www.amazon.com/Courting-Migrants-States-Make-Diasporas-ebook/dp/B08D342R3G

When you left me on that Boulevard by Kayla Abuda Galang
https://vimeo.com/887931553

Sunday Beauty Queen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB_bwb7K-7E&t=1505s&ab_channel=TBAStudios