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.
Research Interests: Immigration , Social movements, Migrant activism, Public policy, Socially engaged research, Intersectionality, Canadian and comparative politics, Immigration and citizenship policy, Gender analysis, Critical race theory
| Institution: | University of Toronto |
| Fields of Expertise: | Borders Canadian Politics Gender Politics and Policy Migration Social Movements and Political Mobilization Social Policy, Welfare and Labour Market |
| Research groups: | Migration/Citizenship/Borders |
| Email: | tungohan@yorku.ca |
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| Languages: | English |
| Publications: | Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Ethel Tungohan, and Christina Gabriel. Containing Diversity: Canada and the Politics of Immigration in the 21st Century. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022. 346 pp. Tungohan, Ethel. (2020). Settlement, separation and forming new families: A multi-scalar intersectional analysis of Filipino family immigration in Saskatchewan, Canada. Women's Studies International Forum. 83. 102403. 10.1016/j.wsif.2020.102403. Francisco-Menchavez, Valerie & Tungohan, Ethel. (2020). Mula Sa Masa, Tungo Sa Masa, From the People, To the People: Building Migrant Worker Power through Participatory Action Research. Migration Letters. 17. 257-264. 10.33182/ml.v17i2.768. “Canada Should Talk to the Provinces: Irregular Migrants in Alberta and Inter-Provincial Legal Consciousness.” International Migration. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12506 (2018). “Intersectionality and Social Movements: Exploring Trans-National and Local Solidarity through a Discussion of Black Lives Matter, the March against Islamophobia and White Supremacy.” With Rachel Brown. Western Political Science Association Annual Conference. San Francisco, CA, April 2018. “International Approaches to Governing Temporary Labour Migrants: A Critical Assessment of the UN Committee on Migrant Workers, the ILO Conventions on Labour Migration, and the International Migrants Alliance,” in Will Kymlicka & Jane Boulden (editors), International Approaches to Governing Ethnic Diversity. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press (2015). Disturbing Invisibility: Filipinos in Canada. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press (2012), with Roland Coloma, Bonnie McElhinny, JP Catungal, & Lisa Davidson. |
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