In Migrant Returns Eric J. Pido examines the complicated relationship between the Philippine economy, Manila's urban development, and balikbayans--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. Now as the initial generation of post-1965 Filipino...

In Migrant Returns Eric J. Pido examines the complicated relationship between the Philippine economy, Manila's urban development, and balikbayans--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. Now as the initial generation of post-1965 Filipino...