Pido Migrant Returns

Manila, Development, and Transnational Connectivity
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7312-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pido, Eric J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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