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Next up, Dr. Ethel Tungohan of York University presents: Care Activism in Comparative Perspective: Migrant Domestic Worker Activism in Manila, Hong Kong and Singapore

Details:
Migrant domestic workers worldwide have been at the forefront in campaigns drawing attention to the need for more just occupational health and safety, labour and immigration policies. Through the organizations that they have formed, they have successfully established “communities of care” that allow them to navigate frequently indifferent and occasionally hostile urban landscapes which render them as ‘necessary threats’ to the receiving state. In this presentation, I compare migrant domestic worker activism across the three cities of Manila, Hong Kong, and Singapore to argue that regardless of differences in national setting, migrant domestic worker activists are united by the way they harness ‘critical hope’ to think of more sustainable and more socially just futures.

About Ethel Tungohan:
Ethel Tungohan is the Canada Research Chair in Canadian Migration Policy, Impacts and Activism, and Assistant Professor of Politics and Social Science at York University. She has also been appointed as a Broadbent Institute Fellow. Previously, she was the Grant Notley Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta’s Department of Political Science. She received her doctoral degree in Political Science and Women and Gender Studies from the University of Toronto.

Her research looks at migrant labor, specifically assessing migrant activism. Her forthcoming book, “From the Politics of Everyday Resistance to the Politics from Below,” which will be published by the University of Illinois Press, won the 2014 National Women’s Studies Association First Book Prize. Her work has been published in academic journals such as the International Feminist Journal of Politics, Politics, Groups, and Identities, and Canadian Ethnic Studies. She is also one of the editors of “Filipinos in Canada: Disturbing Invisibility,” which was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2012.

Dr. Tungohan specializes in socially engaged research and is actively involved in grassroots migrant organizations such as Gabriela-Ontario and Migrante-Canada.