Giving Back
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Giving Back

Filipino America and the Politics of Diaspora Giving

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Giving Back

Filipino America and the Politics of Diaspora Giving

About this book

Many Filipino Americans feel obligated to give charitably to their families, their communities, or social development projects and organizations back home. Their contributions provide relief to poor or vulnerable Filipinos, and address the forces that maintain poverty, vulnerability, and exploitative relationships in the Philippines. This philanthropy is a result of both economic globalization and the migration of Filipino professionals to the United States. But it is also central to the moral economies of Filipino migration, immigration, and diasporic return. Giving-related practices and concerns—and the bonds maintained through giving—infuse what it means to be Filipino in America.

Giving Back shows how integral this system is for understanding Filipino diaspora formation. Joyce Mariano "follows the money" to investigate the cultural, social, economic, and political conditions of diaspora giving. She takes an interdisciplinary approach to reveal how power operates through this charity and the ways the global economic and cultural dimensions of this practice reinforce racial subordination and neocolonialism. Giving Back explores how this charity can stabilize overlapping systems of inequality as well as the contradictions of corporate social responsibility programs in diaspora.

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2
Homeland 
Disorientations
Toward 
Antidevelopmentalist 
Diaspora-Giving 
Politics
C
hapter 
1 
suggests 
that 
constructed 
divisions 
within 
the 
Fili-
pino 
diaspora, 
particularly 
between 
the 
figures 
of 
the 
Filipino 
American 
balikbayan
and 
the 
OFW, 
serve 
as 
a 
force 
for 
global 
capital 
and 
alibi 
for 
the 
exclusions 
inherent 
in 
the 
American 
dream. 
Diaspora-giving 
discourse—both 
popular 
and 
official 
state—can 
distract 
us 
from 
identifying 
and 
engaging 
transnational 
labor 
issues, 
thus 
narrowing 
the 
possibilities 
of 
diaspora 
politics 
in 
problematic 
ways. 
Moving 
away 
from 
the 
cultural 
work 
of 
diasporic 
returns, 
this 
chapter 
focuses 
on 
the 
multiplicity 
of 
homes 
and 
homeland 
orienta-
tions 
as 
dimensions 
of 
diasporic 
life.
U.S.-based 
Filipina 
novelist, 
journalist, 
activist, 
and 
organizer 
Ni-
notchka 
Rosca, 
in 
interviews 
both 
printed 
and 
with 
me, 
proposes 
a 
diasporic 
framework 
of 
social 
transformation 
that 
accounts 
for 
the 
consequences 
of 
the 
Philippine 
economy’s 
dependence 
on 
labor 
mi-
gration.
1
Rosca 
critically 
examines 
the 
meaning 
of 
home 
that 
is 
pro-
duced 
in 
the 
institutionalization 
of 
labor 
migration. 
She 
connects 
the 
Philippines’ 
policies 
of 
out-migration 
to 
the 
bifurcation 
of 
migrant 
Filipino 
subjectivities, 
a 
temporal, 
spatial, 
and 
psychic 
split 
created 
by 
a 
personal 
and 
collective 
sense 
of 
transience. 
The 
Philippine 
pro-
gram 
for 
economic 
development 
institutionalizes 
circular 
migration, 
which 
occurs 
when 
Filipinos, 
whose 
mobility 
is 
controlled 
by 
the 

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction: “Charity Begins at Home”
  4. 1. Good Diasporic Returns: Immigrant Philanthropy, Overseas Labor Remittances, and the American Dream
  5. 2. Homeland Disorientations: Toward Antidevelopmentalist Diaspora-Giving Politics
  6. 3. Incorporating Dreams: Discourses of Poverty and Responsibility in Diaspora
  7. 4. Philippine Environments and Critical Ecologies of Diaspora Giving
  8. Epilogue: Diasporic Love
  9. Notes
  10. Index