Transformation
By explaining homosexuality in the Philippines, we can examine how international
migration have transformed the social and cultural facet of life in recent decades (Eithne
Luibhéid 2008, 169). Not only is international migration an influence on culture and identity, but
is also influenced by the “overlapping regimes of power and knowledge [that] transform identity
categories” (Luibhéid 2008, 170).
Eithne Luibhéid explains how “histories