Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora by Sharon Quinsaat

TERESA R. MELGAR

Ahead of Print • Volume 29 (2025)

Submitted 13 January 2026  •  Accepted 14 January 2026  •  Published 16 January 2026

ABSTRACT

Book review of Quinsaat, Sharon M. Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora. Ateneo de Manila University Press. xx, 226 pp.

This is a revised version of a commentary given by the author during the launch of Insurgent Communities, 3 June 2025, Pilar Herrera Lecture Hall, Palma Hall, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, sponsored by the Third World Studies Center and the Ateneo University Press.