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This 3 page paper reviews Yen Le Espiritu's “Mobile Homes: Lives across Borders” and Laura Briggs' “Making 'American' Families”. No additional sources are listed.
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not just by physical relocation but by psychological transitions. This process affects the immigrants themselves but it also affects the country they are leaving and the country they are
migrating to. Le Espiritu (2003) contends that Filipino immigrants in San Diego, for example, are simultaneously "mobile and spatially bounded" (2). They live in one place yet they
can return home at will "through their imagination" (Le Espiritu, 2003, 2). To them "home is both an imagined and an actual geography" (Le Espiritu, 2003, 2). Their
existance revolves thus not just around their physical location but also around their continued psychological ties to where they came from.
To illustrate the contention presented above consider that Filipinos in the US typically regard this as their adopted country but they regard the Philippines as their home. They typically
maintain many real, and imagined, ties with that home country. Those ties, however, directly related to how they construct homes in their new country (Le Espiritu, 2003). This,
Le Espiritu (2003, 70) entails the process of "home making" and of "transnationalism". Unfortunately, while the connection most first generation Filipinos maintain with
the Philippines is positive in many regards, it is also detrimental to their ability to fully assimilate into Western culture (Le Espiritu, 2003). This garners them significant criticism from
second generation Filipinos who have been able to effectively assimilate and, surprisingly, even from young people who still reside in the Philippines but consider themselves more westernized than first generation
immigrants to the US (Le Espiritu, 2003). At the same time, however, native Filipinos have been the target of considerable criticism for their apparent abandonment of anything Filipino in
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