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Migrant Returns – Manila, Development, and Transnational Connectivity

Autor Eric J. Pido
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 iun 2017
In Migrant Returns Eric J. Pido examines the complicated relationship between the Philippine economy, Manila's urban development, and balikbayans--Filipino migrants visiting or returning to their homeland--to reconceptualize migration as a process of connectivity. Focusing on the experiences of balikbayans returning to Manila from California, Pido shows how Philippine economic and labor policies have created an economy reliant upon property speculation, financial remittances, and the affective labor of Filipinos living abroad. Now as the initial generation of post-1965 Filipino migrants are beginning to age, they are encouraged to retire in their homeland through various state-sponsored incentives. Yet, once arriving, balikbayans often find themselves in the paradoxical position of being neither foreign nor local. They must reconcile their memories of their Filipino upbringing with American conceptions of security, sociality, modernity, and class as their homecoming comes into collision with the Philippines' deep economic and social inequality. Tracing the complexity of balikbayan migration, Pido shows that rather than being a unidirectional event marking the end of a journey, migration is a multidirectional and continuous process that results in ambivalence, anxiety, relief, and difficulty.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822363699
ISBN-10: 0822363690
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

Cuprins

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

Notă biografică

Eric J. Pido