Migrant returns : Manila, development, and transnational connectivity /

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Eric J. Pido examines the complicated relationship between the Philippine economy, Manila's urban development, and Filipino migrants visiting or returning to their homeland, showing migration to be a multidirectional, layered, and continuous process with varied and often fraught outcomes.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pido, Eric J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Manila
Return migration > Philippines.
Filipino Americans > Migrations.
Migration de retour > Philippines.
Américains d'origine philippine > Migrations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Asian American Studies.
Emigration and immigration.
Return migration.
Filipinos
Einwanderung
Rückwanderung
Philippines > Emigration and immigration.
United States > Emigration and immigration.
Philippines.
United States.
USA
Philippines > Émigration et immigration.
États-Unis > Émigration et immigration.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: An ethnography of return
  • Departures
  • The Balikbayan economy: Filipino Americans and the contemporary transformation of Manila
  • The foreign local: Balikbayans, overseas Filipino workers, and the return economy
  • Transnational real estate: selling the American dream in the Philippines
  • Returns
  • The Balikbayan hotel: touristic performance in Manila and the anxiety of return
  • The Balikbayan house: the precarity of return migrant homes
  • Domestic affects: the Philippine retirement authority, retiree visas, and the national
  • Discourse of homecoming
  • Conclusion: Retirement landscapes and the geography of exception.

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