Bakwit : the power of the displaced /

Canuday, Jose Jowel.

Bakwit : the power of the displaced / Jose Jowel Canuday. - Quezon City : Ateneo de Manila University Press, c2009. - xv, 211 pages : illustrations, maps 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Framing displacement : perspectives, concepts, and method -- The Bakwit as makers of history : persistence, creativity, and capability -- The Bakwit as movers of space : migrating people, mutating maps -- Bakwit as social movement : interacting, strategizig, mobilizing -- Reframing displacement : research in solidarity.

This book won the 2010 National Book Awards for Social Sciences category. According to Albert E. Alejo, S.J., this book "renders long overdue respect for the dignity and struggle of the bakwit-the people displaced by conflict and, at times, disenfranchised by aid. Canuday reminds us that the first and lasting fact in any rigorous and reverent social analysis is the resilience of the human spirit.

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Forced migration--Mindanao.
Migration, Internal--Philippines
Refugees--Philippines--Mindanao.--Mindanao.--Philippines

HV 640.4.P6 / .C169 2009