Remittances and returnees : the cultural economy of migration in Ilocos / edited by Raul Pertierra.

Includes bibliographies.

This book is a collective product not only on the part of the writers but also on the part of the writers but also on the part of our informants. We largely report their story and their efforts to obtain for their families and themselves what is often denied them in their home communities. Raul Pertierra is the senior author and the organizer of this research project. He is responsible for the Introduction, Chapter One and the Conclusion. This project was financed by a grant from the Australian International Development Assistance Bureau. Following the anthropological convention we have changed the names of the villages' studies. This was done to protect the privacy of our informants as well as to indicate he artifactual nature of ethnographic research. The main period of fieldwork was from February to June 1990 but many of our informants have been well-known to us before this time. We hope this study will contribute to a fuller understanding of Ilocano migration so that in the future more Ilocanos may decide to develop their region instead of using their talents elsewhere. --Preface of the book