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Robyn Rodriguez Reviews Labor of Care
An amazing review of Labor of Care from long-time scholar activist and full professor at UC Davis, Robyn Magalit Rodriguez! Rodriguez is the author of several books Migrants for Export and In Lady Liberty’s Shadow, books about the life, trials and resilience of migrants.
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Fly Pinay Summit
Looking forward to attending the 2nd annual Fly Pinay Leadership Summit this weekend. As the closing keynote speaker, I’ll be spending my time reflecting on the remarkable resilience of migrant women. Much like the women in The Labor of Care, my mother and the fly Filipinas organizing for dignity and justice for our community in the U.S. and in…
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Ai-Jen Poo Reviews The Labor of Care
Ai-Jen Poo is the director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance. She is a 2014 recipient of the MacArthur “Genius” Award and her book, The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America was released in February 2015. In 2010, Domestic Workers United, where she was a former lead organizer, was…
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Labor of Care book party!
Join us and celebrate the launching of two Filipino-Authored books, TOMORROW! The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in a Digital Age looks at the sacrifices, emotional and material consequences, and recasting of roles that emerge from family separation. Francisco-Menchavez pays particular attention to how technologies like Facebook, Skype, and recorded video open…
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To this year’s Filipina/o Graduate
Dear Filipina/o American graduate, I see you. At the end of my first tenure track year at San Francisco State University, it was you that reminded me that I’m exactly where I need to be. No matter how long and hard the journey has been just to get here and how much harder…
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And they are also always breathing…
Its taken me a while to figure out what I wanted to write about Alex Tizon’s story about Eudocia Tomas Pulido, better known to Tizon’s family as Lola. Reading Tizon’s account of Lola’s life brought up different emotions for me. One of which was to question how the life of Lola was being written about;…
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What’s the point of protesting Donald Trump?
Dear Papa, Yesterday, over dinner, you asked me an honest question,”If you go protest, will it stop Donald Trump’s inauguration?” In that question, I heard so many people’s despair and hopelessness. I answered, “No, it won’t.” And then I took a couple of minutes, taken aback by your very real question, to muster up an…
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#MyAsianAmericanStory
Jason Fong, a high school student in California, created the hashtag #MyAsianAmericanStory in August of 2015 in response to Republican presidential candidate, Jeb Bush, referring to Asian children as “anchor babies” that undocumented Asian immigrants count on for status. A storm of stories that represent the diversity of Asian America followed. In my SJSU Asian American Studies…
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Teaching about Transnational Families
(Photo in New York Magazine, 2007) Teaching about Transnational Families In my global sociology class, I teach a unit on migration and mobility, both of capital and people. The unit covers the multinational corporation and flexible labor, export processing zones and zones of sovereignty, constraints on people over capital and ends with the transnational family…
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America Is In the Heart
My journey with Carlos Bulosan has been a windy one. I was acquainted with “Allos” (as Bulosan refers to himself in America Is In the Heart) in an undergraduate class called Filipino American literature taught by the indomitable Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales. We had a book a week to read and if my memory serves me correctly,…
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