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Giving back : Filipino America and the politics of diaspora giving / L. Joyce Zapanta Mariano.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Description: 1 online resource (xii, 182 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781439918418
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • E184 .G585 2021
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Contents:
Good Diasporic Returns : Immigrant Philanthropy, Overseas Labor Remittances, and the American Dream -- Homeland Disorientations : Toward Anti-Developmentalist Diaspora Giving Politics -- Incorporating Dreams : Discourses of Poverty and Responsibility in Diaspora -- Philippine Environments and Critical Ecologies of Diaspora Giving -- Epilogue -- Diasporic Love.
Subject: "Examines Filipino diaspora through the complex of meanings associated with "giving back" and explores the process of diaspora formation. Argues that giving-related institutions and discourse-such as aid, development, altruism, and benevolence-are integral to understanding diaspora formation today"--
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Includes bibliographies and index.

"Charity Begins at Home" -- Good Diasporic Returns : Immigrant Philanthropy, Overseas Labor Remittances, and the American Dream -- Homeland Disorientations : Toward Anti-Developmentalist Diaspora Giving Politics -- Incorporating Dreams : Discourses of Poverty and Responsibility in Diaspora -- Philippine Environments and Critical Ecologies of Diaspora Giving -- Epilogue -- Diasporic Love.

"Examines Filipino diaspora through the complex of meanings associated with "giving back" and explores the process of diaspora formation. Argues that giving-related institutions and discourse-such as aid, development, altruism, and benevolence-are integral to understanding diaspora formation today"--

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