ABSTRACT
This chapter draws on feminist, anti-racist, decolonial and queer approaches to transnationalism. Grounded in the literature on the Filipino diaspora, it considers how mobility across nations creates the conditions for subjectivities and subjects to emerge in new ways and to congeal around old patterns, norms and power relations. Further, we attempt to unsettle what is typically taken to be the relatively static part of transnationalism (the nation) by considering Indigenous critiques of normative notions and dominant forms of nation in settler colonial contexts. We question what building a transnational approach into a settler nation might bring to studies of transnationalism.
