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Exploring Home, Differential Inclusion, and Transnational Ties in Filipino Immigration

This text delves into the complex nature of "home" as both an imagined and physical space, particularly in the context of Filipino immigration to the US. It examines macro and micro forces shaping this migration, addressing concepts of differential inclusion, which refers to how Filipinos are seen as vital to the US economy while remaining marginalized. The role of transnational ties in resisting this status is discussed, alongside how memories of the homeland influence adaptation to new environments. This analysis highlights the intersection of identity, agency, and systemic challenges faced by immigrant communities.

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Exploring Home, Differential Inclusion, and Transnational Ties in Filipino Immigration

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  1. Making Home Differential Inclusion & Transnational Ties

  2. Questions, Chs 1-4 of Homebound What does it mean to say that” home is both an imagined and an actual geography” (2)? What are the macro and micro forces that influence Filipino immigration into the US (24)? What does YLE mean when she states that the position of Filipinos in the US is one of “differential inclusion”47? How do transnational ties sustained by Filipino immigrants resist this position of “differential inclusion” (71)?

  3. Where is home? • Home as more than physical space and location • Two meanings of home: • Private domestic space • Larger geographic place – community, village, city, country • Homemaking • How memories of homeland are used to negotiate new home locations • Processes of inclusion & exclusion; nurturing & conflict • Reaction to state-enforced homelessness and scattered hegemonies

  4. Macro & Micro • Push/pull vs macro/micro forces • Powerlessness vs agency • Macro forces • US (neo)colonial exploitation • Ex. Filipino naval stewards • Mismanagement of Philippine economy • Needs of globalized capitalism • OFW – overseas Filipino worker • Mirco forces • Gender, generation, class, culture • Kinship, hometown, and other ties of affiliation

  5. Differential Inclusion • Definition: “the process whereby a group of people is deemed integral to the nation’s economy, culture, identity and power – but integral only or precisely because of their designated subordinate standing” (47) • “to be included in the US nation is simultaneously to be rendered homeless” (47) • Challenges myth of “voluntary” immigration & highlights parallels between differential inclusion of Filipinos, Native Americans, African Americans (53) • “the Philippines and its people were forcibly and differentially included in the American empire because they were absolutely critical to American economic development, to the reconstruction of white manhood, and to the larger project of nation building” (56)

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