Migrant returns : Manila, development, and transnational connectivity / Eric J. Pido.
Pido, Eric J., author.; ProQuest (Firm)
2017
JV8685 .P536 2017
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Title Migrant returns : Manila, development, and transnational connectivity / Eric J. Pido.
Author Pido, Eric J., author.
ISBN 9780822373124 (electronic bk.)
0822373122 (electronic bk.)
9780822363538
0822363534
9780822363699
0822363690
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Copyright ©2017
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xv, 211 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number JV8685 .P536 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.9/069109599
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
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Available in Other Form Migrant returns.
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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.

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