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Kuwentuhan as a Method
I often think of collecting qualitative research as opportunities to build relationships with participants in my research projects. There are definitely times when participants don’t want to build with me, and I’m cool with that. But more times than not, with the particular research I am able to do with the workers and worker organizations…
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A chat with Robyn Rodriguez
Robyn and I tap in to chat about Caring for Caregivers! https://uwpressblog.com/2024/10/23/critical-filipinx-studies-qa-with-valerie-francisco-menchavez-author-of-caring-for-caregivers-by-series-editor-robyn-magalit-rodriguez/
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Accumulating Delay
In the summer of 2022, I had the great privilege of conducting research in a province in Cebu, Philippines, the ancestral home of my partner and, now, my children. The 3-month period of living in Cebu was not only a productive research trip, it was also transformative for my family of four, in terms of…
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Harmful care, careful harm: relational entanglements in migration
I’ve been lucky enough to find collaborators across the globe! Leah Williams Veazy, Michelle Peterie, Sukhmani Khorana and Stephanie Raymond in Australia have been kind enough to include me as a speaker for the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies event, Harmful Care, Careful Harm: Relational Entanglements in Migration on September 8 at 5 PM PST.…
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Proofs
The page proofs for my second book are in my hands. Of course, I printed it out, three hole punched it and begged Aya if I could use her Hello Kitty school supplies for a week (the pen has erasable ink!) to finish reading through the pages. This is my second time reading through my…
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Communities of Care (CFP)
I was so pleased to meet, Dr. Leah Williams Veazey, at the University of Sydney, and envision a project that lifts up the idea of Communities of Care that I wrote about in The Labor of Care, a concept that taught me so much about radical care in migrant networks, that Leah continues to develop…
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“Re-turning”
In Pinoy Capital a book about Filipinos in Daly City, Benito “Sonny” Vergara Jr. discuss the act of “re-turn” as an alternative to assimilation for this community. He writes: “repeated turning…through political activism, assertions of ethnic pride, nostalgia, consumerism or just vague remembering. Re-turn is obliquely opposed to the narrative of assimilation. The tension between…
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Going, going, back, back
The last time I was in the Philippines was when my daughter was growing in my womb. She’s now 7 years old. She now has a brother who is 5 years old. And for the first time, my partner, Raul, and I will be taking them to the Philippines. For three months, supported by funding…
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Labor of Care for FREE for FAHM
For Filipino American History Month, an eBook copy of The Labor of Care is free through the University of Illinois Press’ celebration of Fil-Am history! This feels a little self-promote-y but it’s kind of a dream come true for me. I wrote this book for Filipina migrant workers and the movements that are invested building…
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CARE Project at the Bulosan Center Conference
I’ve been working with some amazing student research collaborators this academic year! I never think of them as research “assistants” because that’s feudal and hella inaccurate. Rather, I think of students who I am working with as collaborators. They are trained in sociological research methods. They collect research with care and intention from Filipino/a caregivers.…
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