ISBN:
9780822373124
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (233 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Pido, Eric J Migrant Returns : Manila, Development, and Transnational Connectivity
DDC:
305.9069109599
Keywords:
Return migration - Philippines
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Return migration - Philippines
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Electronic books
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USA
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Filipinos
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Rückwanderung
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Manila
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction: An Ethnography of Return -- Part I: Departures -- 1. The Balikbayan Economy: Filipino Americans and the Contemporary Transformation of Manila -- 2. The Foreign Local: Balikbayans, Overseas Filipino Workers, and the Return Economy -- 3. Transnational Real Estate: Selling the American Dream in the Philippines -- Part II: Returns -- 4. The Balikbayan Hotel: Touristic Performance in Manila and the Anxiety of Return -- 5. The Balikbayan House: The Precarity of Return Migrant Homes -- 6. Domestic Affects: The Philippine Retirement Authority, Retiree Visas, and the National Discourse of Homecoming -- Conclusion: Retirement Landscapes and the Geography of Exception -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W
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