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Manila, development, and transnational connectivity
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.