| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.2

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Book Review

Home Bound: Filipino American Lives across Cultures, Communities, and Countries. By Yen Le Espiritu (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xi + 271 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography. $21.95, paper.)

Based on a rich array of major works in ethnic, Asian American, women's, and transnational studies, and in-depth interviews, Home Bound is a highly readable ethnography on the diverse and complex lives of Filipinos in the navy town of San Diego. The book is well researched and lucidly written, providing a good balance of quantitative data and qualitative sources. The microstructures of home, family, and the domestic realm are also effectively integrated with macro debates about globalization, the nation, and community. Throughout the book, Yen Le Espiritu drives home the point that Filipino American lives and identities are determined not only by the social, economic, and political forces in the United States, but also by U. S. (neo)colonialism in the Philippines and capital investment in Asia.

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