Pinay on the Prairies: Filipino Women and Transnational Identities

For many Filipinos, one word - *kumusta,* how are you - is all it takes to forge a connection with a stranger anywhere in the world. In Canada's prairie provinces, this connection has inspired community building and created both national and transnational identities for the women who identify as *pinay.* This book is the first to look beyond traditional metropolitan hubs of settlement to explore the migration of Filipino women in Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. Based on interviews with first-generation immigrant Filipino women and temporary foreign workers, *Pinay on the Prairies* is a revealing study of identity and community in Canada and an exploration of feminism, transnational identities, migration, and diaspora in a global era.