{"product_id":"balikbayan-a-revenant-history-of-the-filipino-homeland-paperback","title":"Balikbayan: A Revenant History of the Filipino Homeland - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAdrian de Leon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRobyn Magalit Rodriguez\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eHow migrants imagined a country through their acts of return\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWhat does it mean to go back home, especially when \"home\" is shaped by conquest, labor, and longing? This question has animated the experiences of global migrants displaced by imperialism, capital, and the nation-states that have sought to manage their movements for their own political and economic benefit. Through vivid storytelling, Adrian De Leon traces how Filipinos, both at home and overseas, have both shaped the societies they've settled in and transformed the very idea of the Philippines itself. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy following the emergence of the Filipino return migrant (balikbayan), De Leon explores how statecraft in the Philippines--from the late Spanish period through the post-1946 independent state--attempted to co-opt value from migrant communities. \u003ci\u003eBalikbayan\u003c\/i\u003e shows how diasporic labor and transpacific political imaginations were central to the development of a modern Philippine nation-state, through enabling the continued conquest of the islands' frontiers, and sustaining the economic recovery of a nation indebted by native elites and overseas empires. In turn, these lands were reframed by the state as the birthright of overseas Filipinos who yearned to connect with their roots. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCompiled through deep and thoughtful research in community archives, the itinerant histories brought to life in \u003ci\u003eBalikbayan\u003c\/i\u003e coalesce around a new cultural-economic form that has come to define contemporary nationhood: the homeland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eAdrian De Leon\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and assistant professor of history at New York University. He is author of \u003ci\u003eBundok: A Hinterland History of Filipino America\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 17, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52071176372525,"sku":"9780295754321","price":43.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/balikbayan-a-revenant-history-of-the-filipino-homeland-paperback-9504936.webp?v=1780165986","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/balikbayan-a-revenant-history-of-the-filipino-homeland-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}