Abstract
This article explores the role of photographs in shaping the social selves of Filipino temporary labor migrants. Examining the production of photographic self-images by Filipino migrants in Hong Kong and their reception in the Philippines, I show how people deploy photography as a technology to bring into being their desired future selves. By making present ghosts of the future, photographs of the self shape distinctive translocal subjectivities.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 381-92 |
| Journal | Visual Anthropology |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2008 |