Contributors
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Aeriel A. Ashlee is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Educational Leadership at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Her research interests include critical and poststructural considerations of racial identity formation, autoethnography as a transformative research method, and the racialized experiences of transracial Asian American adoptees in college.
Ramon Bultron is currently the General Manager of the Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants (APMM), a regional migrant center that works for the protection and promotion of the rights and well-being of migrants in the Asia Pacific and Middle East regions. He has been known in Hong Kong and the Asia Pacific region as an organizer, educator, and researcher who helps develop and strengthen the migrants' movement at the national, regional, and international levels.
Valerie Francisco-Menchavez is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University. Her recently published book, Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants Transnational Families in the Global Digital Age (2018), explores the dynamics of gender and technology of care work in Filipino transnational families in the Philippines and the United States. She also writes on the transnational activism that emerges from the social conditions of migration, separation, and migrant labor.
Justin D. García is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Millersville University of Pennsylvania. He earned his PhD from Temple University in 2011. His teaching and research interests include U.S. immigration, social constructions of race/ethnicity, and the anthropology of sports (particularly boxing and professional wrestling).
Hsiao-Chuan Hsia is Professor at the Graduate Institute for Social Transformation Studies of Shih Hsin University, Taipei, Taiwan. Her publications analyze issues of immigrants, migrant workers, citizenship, empowerment, and social movements. She is also an activist. She helped establish the TransAsia Sisters Association, Taiwan (TASAT) and was instrumental in forming the Alliance of Marriage Migrants Organizations for Rights and Empowerment (AMMORE). Additionally, she serves as a member of the international coordinating body of the International Migrants Alliance (IMA).
Ji In Kit Lee is an IJC Community Fellow at the MinKwon Center for Community Action. She studies and organizes to interrogate the crossroads between the U.S. immigration system and the prison-industrial complex. She graduated with a BA in politics from Pomona College.
Yuki Obayashi is a doctoral candidate in literature with a designated emphasis on critical race and ethnic studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her dissertation examines the contesting U.S. and Japanese imperialistic visions of the Pacific in the twentieth century.
Geraldina Polanco is Assistant Professor of Labour Studies and Sociology at McMaster University. She is a sociologist by training, and her areas of expertise include the study of work and employment; culture and migration; globalization and transnationalism; intersections of race, class, and gender; and qualitative methodologies. Empirically, she has conducted research on labor migration of service-sector workers from the Philippines and Mexico to western Canada. She has published in venues like Third World Quarterly and Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power.
Robyn Magalit Rodriguez is Professor and Chair of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis. She is also the founding director for the Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies. A longtime scholar-activist and sociologist by training, she researches, teaches, and writes on Asian/American transnational labor migration, immigration, and activism with specific focus on the Filipinx experience. She works closely with the National Alliance for Filipino Concerns.
Michael Tayag was the Northern California Regional Coordinator of the National Alliance for Filipino Concerns and a community organizer with the Pilipino Association of Workers and Immigrants–Silicon Valley. In conjunction with these and other organizations, he helped lead successful campaigns resulting in legislation that strengthened legal mechanisms to deter wage theft and collect wage judgments. His community-based research has supported such pro-worker advocacy efforts. He is currently pursuing a JD at Yale Law School.
Alex Tom is the former Executive Director of the Chinese Progressive Association in San Francisco. With nearly twenty years of experience, he has played a leadership role in building CPA's service, organizing, and civic engagement programs. He is also the Executive Director of the Center For Empowered Politics, a new movement capacity building project, and serves...
