Labour Migration and Ties of Relatedness: Diasporic Houses and Investments in Memory in a Rural Philippine Village
Putting migrant remittances into house construction and rebuilding is generally seen as either conspicuous consumption or productive investment, but in both cases the perspective is economistic. This article argues that only when the cultural dimension of economic action is understood will it be pos...
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Main Author: | Aguilar, Filomeno V, Jr |
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Archīum Ateneo
2009
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Online Access: | https://archium.ateneo.edu/history-faculty-pubs/47 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0725513609105485 |
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