A Nation on the Line: Call Centers as Postcolonial Predicaments in the Philippines by AAST Affiliate Faculty Dr. Jan Padios
The Asian American Studies Program is pleased to announce a new book by AAST Affiliate Faculty Dr. Jan Padios.
By Dr. Jan Padios
I am pleased to announce the publication of my new book, A Nation on the Line: Call Centers as Postcolonial Predicaments in the Philippines (Duke University Press), which examines the massive call center industry in the Philippines in the context of globalization, race, gender, transnationalism, and postcolonialism, outlining how it has become a significant site of efforts to redefine Filipino identity and culture, the Philippine nation-state, and the value of Filipino labor.
"A Nation on the Line provides a fascinating and provocative lens to view the central role of the Philippines in the call center industry. Jan M. Padios's ethnographic study illuminates the impact of outsourcing jobs from the United States on Filipino lives and Philippine national identity formations, exploring both the promise and precarity of this new type of labor for its workforce and our increasingly global economy." — Catherine Ceniza Choy, author of Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History.
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