ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a comparative analysis of the working-class experience of everyday racism and the kinds of strategies they deploy as forms of everyday resistance. It explores how the bodies and identities of working-class Filipino migrants are racially ascribed through their labour. The working class view racism as harmful to their esteem and dignity just as the middle class do. But, in addition, they significantly see racism as a violation of rights. While working-class Filipinos may not have the cultural and economic capital of the middle class, they see themselves as 'good people' who are not domineering. Structural and cultural contexts importantly shape differences in the experience of racism and related coping mechanisms. Across both the middle-class and working-class experience, racialised orders endure but strategies of resistance reveal how power is negotiated, showing itself as rarely static but as always circulating in multi-routed ways.
