00000nam a22000004a 4500 UP-8027390931316662133 Buklod 20260311084948.0 m |o d | cr ||||||||||| 260311s2017 enk u eng d 9780822373124 (ebook) Fi-2051eb Megatexts ₱12,210.00 DMLF rda eng DMLUC JV 8685 P53 2020eb Pido, Eric J. author. Migrant returns Manila, development, and transnational connectivity Eric J. Pido. Durham Duke University Press 2017. ©2020. [1 online resource] xv, 211 pages. text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. 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. Return migration Philippines. Filipino Americans Migrations. Philippines. Emigration and immigration. Remote access thru OpenAthens account https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9780822373124/html FI UPD DMLF JV 8685 P53 2020eb Electronic Resource