The Performance of Property

Suburban Homeownership as a Claim to Citizenship for Filipinos in Daly City

Bibliographic Data

ID12469264
AuthorsEric J Pido (University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume15
Issue1
Pages69-104
Publication date2012-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Asian American Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1096-8598 • E-ISSN: 1097-2129
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jaas.2012.0009
OpenAlexW2000214866
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited51

Contrary to the prevailing literature on immigrant homeownership, I argue that the high rate of homeownership amongst Filipinos, coupled with their tendency to live in suburbs, can only be partially explained as an attempt to produce capital and assimilate within American culture. Just as significant are the ways in which Filipinos utilize homeownership as a means of performing citizenship and signaling their belonging in the U.S. nation. Through in-depth interviews of Filipino realtors and their clients in the Californian suburb of Daly City, I describe how various middle-class enactments reflect a larger cultural logic used to navigate within the differentiating effect of U.S. citizenship

Citizenship · Criminology · Demographic economics · Economics · Epistemology · Political science · Property (philosophy · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Philosophy · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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