Hello! I am a PhD candidate at the Department of Politics at York University, in Toronto, Canada. My masters research was in the field of urban planning, and asked questions about how migrant foreign workers employed in Canadian homes through the Live-In Caregiver Program (1992-2013) navigated expectations and realities of un/safety in the privacy of the domestic sphere. Building upon that, my doctoral research focuses on the affective relationships of citizen/ships & nation/alisms as experienced by the Filipino labour diaspora in Canada; I was awarded the Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS-D scholarship in 2020 for this ongoing work. As a child of the Filipina labour diaspora who was also one of the wave of Filipino nursing graduates in the 2010s, this project is close to my heart; the relationships I have with my families, both kin and found, are at the heart of my scholarly endeavours. My focus is informed by my own relations of care and kinship with the Filipino-Canadian community. My research is firmly situated at the juncture where labour & migration studies, Canadian studies, and Filipino-Canadian studies intersect.
In my free time, I can be found trying out new recipes, attempting to make a dent in my endless TBR list, and trying to visit all of the used bookstores in Toronto.
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