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Migrant returns : Manila, development, and transnational connectivity
Author
Title
Migrant returns : Manila, development, and transnational connectivity / Eric J. Pido.
ISBN
9780822373124
0822373122
9780822363538
0822363534
9780822363699
0822363690
Publication
Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 211 pages) : illustrations
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Variant and related titles
e-Duke books scholarly collection 2017.
Other formats
Print version: Pido, Eric J. Migrant returns. Durham : Duke University Press, 2017
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 24, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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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