Migrant returns
Subtitle: Manila, development, and transnational connectivity
By: Eric J. Pido
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780822363538; 9780822363699
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; Filipino Americans; Migrations; Return migration
Description: 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.--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: An ethnography of return; title: Departures; title: The Balikbayan economy: Filipino Americans and the contemporary transformation of Manila; title: The foreign local: Balikbayans, overseas Filipino workers, and the return economy; title: Transnational real estate: selling the American dream in the Philippines; title: Returns; title: The Balikbayan hotel: touristic performance in Manila and the anxiety of return; title: The Balikbayan house: the precarity of return migrant homes; title: Domestic affects: the Philippine retirement authority, retiree visas, and the national; title: Discourse of homecoming; title: Conclusion: Retirement landscapes and the geography of exception.