Home bound : Filipino American lives across cultures, communities, and countries / Yen Le Espiritu.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Espiritu, Yen Le, 1963-
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003], ©2003.
Subjects:
Filipino Americans > Social conditions.
Filipino Americans > Ethnic identity.
Families > United States.
Transnationalism.
Racism > United States.
United States > Relations > Philippines.
Philippines > Relations > United States.
Physical Description:xi, 271 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Home making
  • Leaving home : Filipino migration/return to the United States
  • "Positively no Filipinos allowed" : differential inclusion and homelessness
  • Mobile homes : lives across borders
  • Making home : building communities in a Navy town
  • Home, sweet home : work and changing family relations
  • "We don't sleep around like white girls do" : the politics of home and location
  • "What of the children?" : emerging homes and identities
  • Homes, borders, and possibilities.