Lopez, M: Making Home Faith, Love and the Politics of Belonging in Japanese-Filipino Families

"Written with the care and sensitivity typical of Lopez' work, Making Home places faith and intimacy at the heart of Japanese-Filipino family life. Exemplifying the value of slow ethnography, it opens new and compelling ways of thinking about affect, marriage, and migration in Japan." - Jamie Coates, University of Sheffield

"Allow this book to welcome you to the intimate spaces of Filipino and Japanese marriages in Japan. An essential read for migration studies scholars, Mario provides us entry into the everyday lives of Filipinos in Japan and how their faith navigates these spaces. Key to this brilliant work is how readers can see the religious reflections of their Japanese partners. This slow research will inspire younger scholars to hopefully do the same." - Karl Ian Uy Cheng Chua, Asian Center, University of the Philippines-Diliman

"This book examines how Filipino migrant wives employ their religious faith as a form of agentive and persuasive power and re-negotiate and transform their affective relations with their Japanese husbands. The result is a very readable ethnography based on compelling personal narratives about how migrant religiosity influences intimate familial contexts." - Takeyuki Tsuda, Arizona State University