Youth Economic Solidarities and Subjectivities (YESS) led by Philip Kelly and Melissa Gibson, investigates the social relationships created when the second-generation goes ‘home’ for social change through structured activities such as volunteering and exposure trips. In particular, the case study queries the ways in which Filipino-Canadian and Filipino-American youth identity is forged and transformed via the encounter with lived realities in the Philippines, as well as what this might mean for transnational solidarity and development.
How does engagement with transnational activism and development issues foster the formation of new subject positions for second-generation youth, and how might they articulate these positions among family, friends and communities in Canada? How might the process of philanthropic engagement with ‘distant strangers’ change alongside personal identification and social solidarity?
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