Migrant Returns : Manila, Development, and Transnational Connectivity /
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.
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2017.
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.