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, and Critical Border Studies, Social Movements, Canadian Politics, Comparative Politics, Feminist Political Theory, and Public Policy
| Institution: | University of Toronto |
| Fields of Expertise: | Borders Canadian Politics Gender Politics and Policy 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: | Migrant Care Worker Activism in Canada: From the Politics of Everyday Resistance to the Politics from Below. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press (under contract). Containing Diversity: Canada and the Politics of Immigration in the 21st Century. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press (under contract), with Yasmeen Abu-Laban & Christina Gabriel. The Transformative and Radical Feminism of Grassroots Migrant Women’s Movement(s) in Canada, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Volume 50(2), 479-494 | doi:10.1017/S0008423917000622 (2017). “Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada: Reconstructing ‘belonging’, remaking citizenship.” Social and Legal Studies. (Article accepted). “From Encountering Confederate Flags to Finding Refuge in Spaces of Solidarity.” Space and Polity DOI: 10.1080/13562576.2017.1270637 (2016). “Intersectionality and Social Justice: Assessing Activists’ Use of Intersectionality through Grassroots Migrants Organizations in Canada.” Politics, Groups, and Identities 4(3): 347-362 (2016). “After the Live-in Caregiver Program: Filipina Caregivers’ Experiences of Uneven and Graduated Citizenship.” First Author, with Rupa Banerjee, Wayne Chu, Petronilla Cleto, Conely De Leon, Mila Garcia, Philip Kelly, Marco Luciano, Cynthia Palmaria, and Chris Sorio. Canadian Ethnic Studies 47 (1): 87-105 (2015). “Reconceptualizing Motherhood, Reconceptualizing Resistance: Migrant Domestic Workers,Transnational Hyper-Maternalism, and Activism.” International Feminist Journal of Politics 15(1): 39-57 (2013). Disturbing Invisibility: Filipinos in Canada. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press (2012), with Roland Coloma, Bonnie McElhinny, JP Catungal, & Lisa Davidson. 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 J. Boulden and W. Kymlicka (Eds.), International Approaches to Governing Ethnic Diversity (pp. 102-127), Oxford University Press (2015). “Debunking Notions of Migrant ‘Victimhood’: A Critical Assessment of Temporary Labour Migration Programs and Filipina Migrant Activism in Canada,” in Roland Coloma, Bonnie McElhinny, Ethel Tungohan, JP Catungal & Lisa Davidson (eds.), Disturbing Invisibility: Filipinos in Canada. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, pp. 161-180 (2012). “Protecting Temporary Labour Migrants: An Emerging Role for Global Cities,” in Harald Bauder (ed.), Immigration and Settlement: Challenges, Experiences, and Opportunities in Global and Local Contexts. Toronto, ON: Canadian Scholars Press, pp. 75-93. (2012). “Spectres of (In)visibility: Filipina/o Labour, Culture, and Youth in Canada,” in Roland Coloma, Bonnie McElhinny, Ethel Tungohan, JP Catungal & Lisa Davidson (editors), Disturbing Invisibility: Filipinos in Canada. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, pp. 5-45 (2012). With Bonnie McElhinny, Lisa Davidson, JP Catungal, & Roland Coloma.“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 (In Press). |
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