Books by Yen Espiritu

Filipino Americans are the second largest group of Asian Americans as well as the second largest immigrant group in the United States. This collection reflects on their lives, which represent the diversity of the immigrant experience and their narratives are a way to understand ethnic identity and Filipino American history.

Explores the construction of large-scale affiliations, in which unrelated groups submerge their differences and assume a common identity. Making use of interviews and statistical data, this book examines how Asian panethnicity protects the rights and interests of all Asian American groups.

Filipino Americans, who experience life in the United States as immigrants, colonized nationals, and racial minorities, are one of our largest immigrant groups. This title investigates how Filipino women and men are transformed through the experience of migration, and how they in turn remake the social world around them.