Eric J Pido

Migrant Returns

Manila, Development, and Transnational Connectivity

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Produktbeschreibung

Eric J. Pido is Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780822363538
• ISBN-10: 0822363534
• Artikelnr.: 45605648

Autorenporträt

Eric J. Pido

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations  vii
Preface  ix
Introduction. An Ethnography of Return  1
Part I: Departures
1. The Balikbayan Economy: Filipino Americans and the Contemporary
Transformation of Manila  29
2. The Foreign Local: Balikbayans, Overseas Filipino Workers,and the Return
Economy  49
3. Transnational Real Estate: Selling the American Dream in the
Philippines  72
Part II. Returns
4. The Balikbayan Hotel: Touristic Performance in Manila and the Anxiety of
Return  115
5. The Balikbayan House: The Precarity of Return Migrant Homes  131
6. Domestic Affects: The Philippine Retirement Authority, Retiree Visas,
and the National Discourse of Homecoming  148
Conclusion: Retirement Landscapes and the Geography of Exception  163
Epilogue  179
Notes  187
References  197
Index  209