Migrant returns: Manila, development, and transnational connectivity

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 Philip...

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Main Author: Pido, Eric J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham Duke University Press 2017
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Summary: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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 211 pages) illustrations
ISBN:9780822373124
0822373122