Filipino Diasporas in an Open City in the Gulf States

这项研究调查了在阿拉伯联合酋长国迪拜工作的菲律宾人的经历，并比较了两个民族语言群体，即来自东部Visayas的基督徒和来自棉兰老岛西南部的穆斯林之间的身份重建。它辩称，通过在这个全球城市的日常接触，他们作为“菲律宾人”的身份可能会得到加强，尽管有时阶级和宗教差异可能会减少这种联系。基督徒菲律宾人和穆斯林菲律宾家庭佣工之间的接触被认为是最不可能发生的，除非是紧急情况，因为他们在离开之前的社会经济条件不同。

This study looked into experiences of Filipinos working in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and compared identity reconstruction between two ethnolinguistic groups, namely Christians from the Eastern Visayas and Muslims from the South-Western Mindanao. It argued that, through everyday contacts in this global city, their identity as "Filipinos" was likely to be strengthened, although sometimes class and religious differences may lessen such contacts. Contacts between Christian Filipinos and Muslim Filipina domestic workers were found least likely to happen except emergency cases, due to the disparity in their socio-economic conditions prior to the departure.