East by Mid-East - Studies in Cultural, Historical and Strategic Connectivities - Anchi Hoh
7. The Middle East and the Philippines: Transnational Linkages, Labor Migration and the Remaking of Philippine Islam
East by Mid-East - Studies in Cultural, Historical and Strategic Connectivities - Anchi Hoh
Vivienne S.M. Angeles
Description
This chapter looks at the transnational linkages between the Middle East and the Philippines. To demonstrate the continuing connections and their changing characteristics, the author starts with the historical connections between the Philippines and the Middle East and then focus on the issue of Philippine labor migration to Saudi Arabia.