With Insurgent Communities, Sharon Quinsaat provides us with a bold and insightful analysis of how a diaspora is invented through the political mobilizations of migrants. Skillfully articulating political sociology, transnational studies and migration studies, the book is a masterful empirical study of Filipinos’ anti-dictatorship actions in the Netherlands and in the United States, as well as a profound and original reflection about the social and political construction of migrant communities.