Migrant returns : Manila, development, and transnational connectivity /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Pido, Eric J. (Author)
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Subjects:	Return migration > Philippines. Filipino Americans > Migrations. Philippines > Emigration and immigration. United States > Emigration and immigration. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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.