Concepcion

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A journalist offers a powerful and incisive account of the forces shaping his Filipinx-American family's fate, reframing the immigrant experience. Approaching the age at which his mother migrated to the U.S. as part of the post-1965 wave of non-European immigrants, Albert Samaha questions the belief in a better future that motivated her family to leave their homeland. As inequality and discrimination rise, he reflects on whether their decision to leave a middle-class life in the Philippines was worth the sacrifice. He examines his family's history, tracing it back to the region's geopolitical roots in Spanish colonialism, Japanese occupation, and American intervention, positioning their story within the broader narrative of global migration influenced by superpower dynamics. With warmth, affection, and clear-eyed skepticism, Samaha explores the implications of confronting imperialism's unjust legacy, living with contradictions and hope, and striving for the unrealized ideals of an inherited homeland.