Migrant returns : Manila, development, and transnational connectivity / Eric J. Pido.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Pido, Eric J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Return migration--Philippines.
• Filipino Americans--Migrations.
• Filipino Americans.
• Return migration.
• Philippines--Emigration and immigration.
• Philippines.
• Emigration and immigration.
• United States--Emigration and immigration.
• United States.

Physical Description:

xv, 211 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.

Summary:

In Migrant Returns Eric J. Pido examines the complicated relationship among the Philippine economy, Manila's urban development, and balik-bayans-Filipino migrants visiting or returning to their homeland-to reconceptualize migration as a process of connectivity. Focusing on the experiences of balikbayans returning to Manila from California, Pido shows how Philippine economic and labor policies have created an economy reliant upon property speculation, financial remittances, and the affective labor of Filipinos living abroad. As the initial generation of post-1965 Filipino migrants begin to age, they are encouraged to retire in their homeland through various state-sponsored incentives. Yet, once they arrive, balikbayans often find themselves in the paradoxical position of being neither foreign nor local. They must reconcile their memories of their Filipino upbringing with American conceptions of security, sociality, modernity, and class as their homecoming comes into collision with the Philippines' deep economic and social inequality. Tracing the complexity of balikbayan migration, Pido shows that rather than being a unidirectional event marking the end of a journey, migration is a multidirectional and continuous process that results in ambivalence, anxiety, relief, and difficulty. Book jacket.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Pido, Eric J. Migrant returns.

ISBN:

• 9780822363538
• 0822363534
• 9780822363699
• 0822363690

OCLC:

956339823