... balikbayans remittances home habitus ...

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... This chapter analyzes waiting as a form of work and an essential condition that enables and perpetuates transnational migration. It situates remittances as a particular form of money with a future-oriented temporality, functioning not only as pure money but also as gifts. It shows that, while...

... making care for the body more difficult and prolonging its exploitation by intensive labor. work visas repetitive migration time bodies This chapter analyzes waiting as a form of work and an essential condition that enables and perpetuates transnational migration. It situates remittances...

...Returns This chapter shifts the scholarly discussion around global patterns of remittance sending by introducing the unique figure of the balikbayan, the Filipino visiting or returning to their homeland. It describes the unique formation of balikbayans within the sociopolitical context...

... persisted through decades of remittance sending and eventually created the foundation for an economy built on property speculation. balikbayan economic development Philippines Ferdinand Marcos property development In order to explain the material transformations occurring throughout Metro...

... balikbayans invest, rebuild, and resettle are often unremarkable, in contrast to the “remittance landscapes” transformed by money sent home by transnational migrants. Balikbayans remake their homes and lives from a particular nostalgia for their childhoods in the Philippines. At the same time, they merge...

... This chapter explores the rapid urbanization and economic development of Yanbian, China, a remarkable change driven by the flow of remittances from South Korea. It also examines the way that internal migration, of both Korean Chinese and Han Chinese within China, intersects...

... of migration, anti-immigrant sentiment within the region, the consequence of migration on families, the architecture of remittances and changes to urban space, memory and mapmaking in migration, resilience of unaccompanied child migrants, and other intricacies of Central American migration. Central American...

...Dreaming Anew This chapter explores the rapid urbanization and economic development of Yanbian, China, a remarkable change driven by the flow of remittances from South Korea. It also examines the way that internal migration, of both Korean Chinese and Han Chinese within China, intersects...

.... As the Philippines struggles to compete alongside these growing economies, balikbayans, or Filipinos visiting and returning to their homeland specifically from the United States, provide a key component linking together a larger economy of decades of remittance sending and contemporary property development...

... This chapter shifts the scholarly discussion around global patterns of remittance sending by introducing the unique figure of the balikbayan, the Filipino visiting or returning to their homeland. It describes the unique formation of balikbayans within the sociopolitical context of a post-Marcos...

... social reproduction of Kuwaiti families, and through their remittances, the everyday provisioning of the households and communities they have migrated from. This chapter underscores how domestic workers’ “temporariness” is produced amidst—and belied by—past and present transnational connections that knit...

... through decades of remittance sending and eventually created the foundation for an economy built on property speculation. balikbayan economic development Philippines Ferdinand Marcos property development ...