Robyn Magalit Rodriguez

Curriculum Vitae

Department of Asian American StudiesUniversity of California, Davis

rrodriguez@ucdavis.edu

Academic Appointments

2011-Present

2005-2010

Associate Professor, Asian American StudiesUniversity of California, Davis.

Associate Professor, Department of SociologyRutgers University, New Brunswick-Piscataway

Faculty Affiliate, Department of Women and Gender StudiesRutgers University, New Brunswick-Piscataway

June 2009 Visiting Professor, Faculty of Social SciencesKassel University, Germany

2003-2004 Part-Time Lecturer, Department of SociologyUniversity of San Francisco

Academic Preparation

University of California, Berkeley Sociology PhD, 2005

University of California, Berkeley Sociology MA, 1999

University of California, Santa Barbara Sociology BA, 1996

Publications

Books

Forthcoming 2014

2010

(Co-authored with Pawan Dhingra) Asian-America: Sociological and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.

Migrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers

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Workers to the World. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

In PreparationIn Lady Libery’s Shadow: Race and Immigration in Post-9/11 New Jersey.

Refereed Articles

Forthcoming Fall 2013

“Migrant Labor Transnationalism,” in Transnational and Diasporic Citizenship Across the Americas, Special Issue of Identities, edited by Robyn Rodriguez and Ulla Berg.

“Introduction,” in Transnational and Diasporic Citizenship Across the Americas, Special Issue of Identities, edited by Robyn Rodriguez and Ulla Berg.

2013 (Co-authored with Helen Schwenken) “Becoming a Migrant at Home: Subjectivation Processes in Migrant-Sending Countries Prior to Departure.” Population, Place and Space.

2011 “Philippine Migrants in the Middle East.” International Labor and Working Class History 78 (1).

2008 “The Labor Brokerage State and the Globalization of Filipina Care Workers.” Signs: Journal of Women and Culture in Society 33: 794-799.

2008 “(Dis)unity and Diversity in Post-9/11 America.” Sociological Forum 23: 379-389.

2004 Rodriguez, Robyn Magalit and Nerissa Balce-Cortes. “American Security and Radical Filipino Community Politics Post-9/11.” Peace Review 1:131-140.

2002 “Migrant Heroes: Nationalism, Citizenship and the Politics of Filipino Migrant Labor.” Citizenship Studies, 6: 342-356.

1999 “Outline of a Theory of the Labor-Sending State: The State and Migration Global Economy.” Philippine Sociological Review 47: 101-115.

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Journal Editor

Forthcoming Fall 2013

2008

Co-edited with Ulla Berg. “Transnational and Diasporic Citizenship Across the Americas.” Special Issue of Identities.

“Comparative Perspectives Symposium: Gendered Migrations.” Signs: Journal of Women and Culture in Society 33: 761-808.

Book Chapters

Forthcoming

Forthcoming

2012

2011

2010

(co-authored with Valerie Francisco) “Globalization and the Rise of Undocumented Migration,” in Hidden Lives and Human Rights: Understanding the Controversies and Tragedies in Undocumented Immigration. Lois Lorentzen (editor). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio.

“The Interiorization and Localization of Border Control: A U.S. Case,” inNew Border and Citizenship Politics,” in Helen Schwenken and Sabine Russ, eds., Hampshire, UK: Palgrave MacMillian.

(Translated into Chinese) “The Labor Brokerage State and the Globalization of Filipina Care Workers,” in Min Zhou and Guoxiong Zhang, eds., International Migration and Social Development. Guangzhou: Sun Yat-sen University Press, 2012.

“Fighting for Fatherhood.” in Gender and Culture at the Limit of Rights edited by Dorothy Hodgson. Philadephia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

“On the Question of Expertise: A Critical Reflection on ‘Civil Society’ Processes.” in Learning from the Ground Up: Global Perspectives on Social Movements and Knowledge Production, edited by Aziz Choudry and Dip Kapoor. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.

2009 “Challenging the Limits of the Law.” Pp. 49-63 in

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Globalization and Third World Women: Exploitation, Coping and Resistance edited by Ligaya McGovern and Isidor Wallimann. Hampshire, United Kingdom: Ashgate Press.

2007 Rodriguez, Robyn Magalit and Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez. “Asian American Auto/biographies: The Gendered Limits of Consumer Citizenship.” Pp. 247-270 in Alien Encounters: Popular Culture and Asian America edited by Thuy Tu and Mimi Nguyen. Durham: Duke University Press.

2003 Gonzalez, Vernadette Vicuña and Rodriguez, Robyn Magalit. “Filipina.com: Filipina Bodies on the Cyberfrontier.” Pp. 215-234in Asian America.net edited by Rachel Lee and Sau-Ling Wong. New York and London: Routledge.

Reprinted in Grewal, Inderpal and Caren Kaplan (Eds). 2005. An Introduction to Women’s Studies: Gender in a Transnational World. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Book Chapters (Under Review)

“Towards a Critical Filipino Studies Approach to Philippine Migration,” in Philippine Palimpsests: Essays for the 21st Century. Martin Manalansan and Augusto Espiritu, eds.

“Globalization,” in Keywords in Asian American Studies. Linda Trinh Vo, K. Scott Wong, and Cathy Schlund-Vials, eds.

Journal Articles (not refereed)

2007 “Immigration, Homeland (In)security & Immigrants’ Collective Mobilizations in the United States After 9/11.” Leben in der Illegalität: Ein Dossier. Berlin, Germany: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung.http://boell.de

Electronic Publications (refereed)

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2008 “Domestic Debates: Constructions of Gendered Migration from the Philippines.” Scholar & Feminist Online 6.3. (http://www.barnard.columbia.edu/sfonline/immigration/)

Conference Proceedings

2007 “Challenging the Limits of the Law: Migrant Women’s Organizing in the Philippines.” The Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law and Justice 22: 337-341.

Book Reviews

Forthcoming2013

2011

2010

Review of Geraldine Pratt. 2012. Families Apart: Migrant Mothers and the Conflicts of Labor and Love Minneapolis: University of Minnesota in AAG Review of Books.

Review of Leah Briones. 2009. Empowering Migrant Women: Why Agency and Rights are Not Enough London: Ashgate Publishing in International Feminist Journal of Politics.

Review of David Fitzgerald. 2009. A Nation of Emigrants: How Mexico Manages its Migration Berkeley, University of California Press in Social Forces.

2008 Review of Paul Kramer. 2006. The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press in Social History 33: 483-485.

In Preparation

Review of Rahel Kunz. 2011. Global Remittances: Gender, Governmentality and Neoliberalism New York: Routledge Press in International Feminist Journal of Politics.Review of Immanuel Ness. 2011. Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism Chicago, University of Illinois Press in Social Forces.

Review of Anna Romina Guevarra. 2009. Marketing Dreams, Manufacturing Heroes New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press in International Review of Modern Sociology.

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Other Publications/Working Papers

2012

2009

“Filipino Labor for Sale. Will Deliver.” Hyphen Magazine. http://www.hyphenmagazine.com/blog/archive/2012/06/filipino-labor-sale-will-deliver

http://sas.rutgers.edu/news-a-events/feature-archive/1148-from-student-to-professor-robyn-rodriguez-shares-her-story

“The Global Forum on Migration and Development: Critical Overview through a Case-study of the Phillipines.” Migrationonine.cz. (Czech Republic).http://www.migrationonline.cz/e-library/?x=2182704

2008 “Criminalizing Undocumented Migration after 9/11.” Women on Campus: The Newsletter of the New Jersey City University (NJCU) Women’s Center and the Women and Gender Studies Program 16:16-17.

2005 “Domestic Insecurities: Female Migration from the Philippines, Development and National Subject-Status.” Working Paper 114, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego.http://www.ccis-ucsd.org/PUBLICATIONS/wrkg114.pdf

2002 “Striking Filipino Workers in Brunei: Globalisation, Migrant Workers and Migration Policy in a Labour-Sending State.” Working Paper, Asian Pacific Migration Network and Ford Foundation.http://piasdgserver.usp.ac.fj/apmrn1/fileadmin/files/projects/striking_filipino_workers.pdf

Fellowships, Research Grants and Other Awards

2013

2012

University of California Humanities Institute Faculty Collaborative Compositions GrantHonorable mention for the 2010 Book Award in Social Sciences from Association for Asian American StudiesBook Honoree by Geographical Perspectives on Women (GPOW), Association of American Geographers

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20112009-2010

Association of American Geographers Enrichment GrantCalifornia Cultures Initiative Course Development Grant10th annual ASUCD Excellence in Education Award NomineeRutgers Immigrant Infrastructure and Mapping ProjectResearch Council Grant, Rutgers University

2009-2010 Rutgers University for Faculty Advancement and Institutional Re-Imagination (RU FAIR) Grant (with Dr. Zaire Dinzey-Flores)

2009 Faculty “Leader in Diversity,” Rutgers University2008-2009 Institute for Research on Women Faculty Fellowship,

Rutgers University2007-2008 Global Opportunity Award, Rutgers University2005-2006 Institute for Research on Women Faculty Fellowship,

Rutgers University2006-2007 Research Council Grant, Rutgers University

Invited Presentations

International

February 13, 2013

July 18-19, 2012

July 13-15, 2012

April 14-16 2011

October 4, 2010

Migrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Labour to the World

Book LecturePhilippine Studies Series, University of British Columbia

Labour Migration Programs in Comparative PerspectiveUniversity of Vienna, Austria

International Symposium of the Critical Migration and Border Regime NetworkKassel University, Germany

Migration and Borderlands: Dynamics of Exclusion and InclusionIstanbul, Turkey

The Labor Brokerage State: Understanding Philippine MigrationBook Lecture

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Department of Sociology, McGill UniversityMontreal, Canada

October 4, 2010

On the Question of Expertise: A Critical Reflection on "Civil Society" ProcessesDepartment of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill UniversityMontreal, Canada

October 4, 2010

Immigrant Rights Struggles in the United StatesFrom Arizona to Montreal: Migrants fight back! PanelQuebec Public Interest Research Group, McGill UniversityMontreal, Canada

July 13, 2010

New Subjects of Labor: Philippine Labor Sociology and the Migrant WorkerRC 44 Research Committee on Labor MovementsInternational Sociological AssociationXVII World Congress of SociologyGothenburg, Sweden

June 20, 2009

The Limits and Possibilities of Transnational Feminisms: Perspectives From Migrant Women WorkersCluster of Excellence "Formation of Normative Orders"Frankfurt Research Center for Postcolonial Studies (FRCPS),Goethe University, Germany

May 29-30, 2009

Gender Knowledge and Philippine Migration Policy: The Role of The Media, NGOs, the Church and the StateThe Knowledge Behind: The Role of Gender Knowledge in Policy Making International SymposiumHumboldt University, Germany

June 22-23, 2009

New Migrant Transnationalisms in AsiaLabour Struggles in Asia and the Diaspora ConferenceInstitute of Asia Pacific StudiesUniversity of Nottingham, United Kingdom

June 19, 2006

Immigration Legislation, Homeland Insecurities and Immigrants’ Collective Mobilizations in the United States After 9/11Department of Global PoliticsKassel University, Germany

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June 8, 2006

Gendered Labor, Development & the Globalization of FilipinasStates and Emigrants Seminar SeriesCenter for Migration and Policy Studies (COMPAS)Oxford University, United Kingdom

United States

2013

February 15 Neoliberalism and the Rescaling of American Citizenship: Rethinking the Politics of CitizenshipPortland Center for Public Humanities, Portland State University

February 14 Transnational Feminist Perspectives from Migrant Women Workers

Women, Gender and Sexuality Department, Portland State University

January 17 Transnational and Diasporic Citizenship (with Ulla Berg) University of California Humanities Research Institute

2012

October 5 The Importance of Filipino-American History: Bridging Scholarship With Community Antioch University, Seattle

September 20 Neoliberalism and the Rescaling of American Citizenship: Rethinking the Politics of CitizenshipMiddlebury College

2011

Nov. 4 Migants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World

Book LectureAsian American Studies CollectiveUniversity of Washington, Seattle

April 28 Migants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World

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Book Lecture Department of SociologyOberlin College

March 23 8th Annual “Celebration of Recently Published Faculty Authors” Exhibition and Reception

Featured SpeakerRutgers University Library

March 9 Migrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Workers to the World

Book LectureDepartment of Asian American StudiesUniversity of California, Santa Barbara

February 24 Migrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Workers to the World

Book LectureAsian American Studies ProgramUniversity of Pennsylvania

February 10 Migrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Workers to the World

Book LectureDepartment of Asian American StudiesUniversity of California, Davis

2010

November 30

November 15

October 9

Migrant for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the WorldDistinguished Lecture Series, Center for International StudiesCollege of Mount Saint Vincent

Migrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the WorldBook LectureDepartment of SociologySarah Lawrence College

Filipina Migrants for SaleBook Lecture7th Filipina Leadership Summit, Filipina Women’s Network

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Las Vegas, Nevada

October 8 Migrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the WorldBook LectureUCLA Migration Study Group, Dept. of Asian American Studies, and the Center for Southeast Asian StudiesUniversity of California, Los Angeles

October 5 Neoliberalism and the Rescaling of American Citizenship: Rethinking the Immigration DebateCenter on Migration and the Global City, Rutgers University, Newark

Aug.14 Global Workers, Migrant Citizens: Transnational Labor and the Deterritorialization ofRights in Southeast Asia,Featured Thematic SessionAmerican Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia

April 3 The State as a Labor Broker?Labor Brokers and Global Migration ConferenceCenter for Labor Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz,

March 20

February 18

Transnational Labor MovementsThe Center Cannot Hold: Rekindling the Radical ImaginationPace University

2009

November 20

Neoliberal Globalization and Contemporary ImmigrationKeynote AddressImmigration, Race, and the Future of Work ConferenceLabor Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

November 18

Faculty Panel PresentationGender Identity, Sexuality, Social Justice IssuesRutgers Libraries' Diversity Education Initiative, Rutgers University

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April 13 Migrant Workers in Asia: Issues and StrugglesChristian Legal Society, Brooklyn Law School

April 3 Transnational Feminisms: Perspectives from Migrant WomenKeynote AddressNew Jersey Women and Gender Studies Consortium 5th Annual Conference

March 26 Transnational Working Class Feminisms: Women Migrant Workers in Asia and BeyondFeminism for the Planet, 5th Annual Women’s Studies SymposiumDepartment of Women’s Studies, Rutgers University (Newark)

Feb. 26-27 Rights and Belonging in New Jersey After 9/11The Culture of Rights/The Rights of Culture Symposium,Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University

Feb. 12-13 The Local Politics of Homeland Security in New JerseyThe Professor and the Spy ConferencePolitics of Global Security Faculty Cluster, Rutgers University

2008

April 4 The Labor Brokerage State: Migration and Development in the PhilippinesDepartment of Sociology, University of Arizona

March 7-8 Empire, Neocolonialism and the Filipino DiasporaPhilippine Palimpsests: Filipino Studies in the 21st CenturyUniversity of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

2007

October 15

Global Workers, Migrant Citizens: Philippine Labor and the Brokerage StateWomen and Society Seminar, Columbia University

August 10-

Embodying Migration: Color and Class amongst Filipina Return Migrants in the Philippines

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12 Special Session: Color Struck: The Social and Cultural Significance of Skin ToneAnnual Meeting, Society for the Study of Social Problems

April 20 Documenting Immigrant Experiences in New Jersey CommunitiesCenter for Race and Ethnicity, Rutgers University

April 18 The Labor Brokering State: Migration, Development and Globalization in the PhilippinesDepartment of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

March 24 Domestic Debates32nd annual Scholar & Feminist Conference: Fashioning Citizenship: Gender and ImmigrationBarnard Center for Research on Women, Barnard College

March 17 Introduction to Filipino American HistoryFilipino Inter-Collegiate Networking Dialogue ConferenceRamapo College, New Jersey

January 31 Immigration in New Jersey After 9/11Department of American Studies, Rutgers University

2006

Nov. 3-4 The Turn to Empire in Filipino/Filipina American StudiesEast of California Conference, Ohio State University

May 5-7 Other Septembers: The Global War on Terror and Martial Law in the PhilippinesAsian American Studies Conference, Dartmouth College

April 7-9 Keynote AddressEmpowering Our Minds, Strengthening Our Voice ConferenceNorthwest Filipino-American Student Alliance, Portland, Oregon

March 22-26

Empire, Neocolonialism and Diaspora: Critical Reflections on Filipino Im/migration Studies for the 21st CenturyMegasession: Centennial of Filipino Immigration to HawaiiAnnual Meeting, Association for Asian American Studies

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January 23 Migrants’ Transnational Organizing: A Case Study of Migrante InternationalLabor and Popular Struggles Seminar, Columbia University

2005

Dec. 2 and 3

Color and Status in the PhilippinesHierarchies of Color ConferenceCenter for Race and Gender, University of California, Berkeley

November 18

Challenging the Limits of the Law: Migrant Women’s Organizing in the Philippines

Gender and Migration SymposiumBerkeley Journal of Gender, Law and JusticeBoalt Hall Law School, University of California, Berkeley

Other Presentations

2012

Nov. 15-18 Discussant for Articulations of Empire and the Perils and Possibilities of Comparative Work American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Puerto Rico

April 11-14 Chair for Perspectives on Critical Filipino Studies Association for Asian American Studies Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.

April 1-4 Discussant for Technologies of Migration and Citizenship International Studies Association Annual Meeting, San

Diego, CA

Feb 24-28 “The Labor Sending State as a Determinant of Internationals Migration: A Conceptual Framework” Brokering Bodies Across Borders: Intermediaries and the State in the Age of Mobility SessionAssociation for American Geographers, New York, NY

Discussant for Brokering Bodies Across Borders: Intermediaries and the State in the Age of Mobility

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Association for American Geographers, New York, NY

Sex, Love, Labor and Spaces In-Between: New Books on the Filipina/o Diaspora, Association for American Geographers, New York, NY

2011

May 18-21 Discussant for Cultural Politics of Global Production and Consumption in the Filipino Diaspora SessionAssociation for Asian American Studies, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA

May 12 Countertopographies of Migrant Transnational Feminism: Family, Labor and Citizenship (with Valerie Francisco)Feminist Fantasies Conference, Institute for Research on

WomenRutgers University

Mar. 30-Apr. 3 Philippine International Migration and the Labor Brokerage State

Annual Meeting, Association for Asian Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii

Mar.13-16 Towards the Global Governance of Labor Migration? Critical Reflections on the Global Forum on Migration and DevelopmentAnnual Meeting, International Studies Association

March 10-12 Respondent for The Limits of Citizenship SessionCritical Ethnic Studies Conference, University of California, Riverside

March 3 Discussant for New Muslim Cool film Center for Latino Arts and Culture, Rutgers University

Feb. 24-27 Author Meets Critics Discussant--Brokered Boundaries: Creating Immigrant Identity in Anti-Immigrant Times by Douglas S. Massey and Magaly Sanchez

Author Meets Critics Discussant--The Managed Hand: Race, Gender and the Body in Beauty Service Work by Miliann KangEastern Sociological Association, Boston, MA

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2010

April 7-10 Discussant for American Immigration Narratives and the Construction of Neoliberal Philippine CitizenshipAnnual Meeting, Association for Asian American Studies

March 5 Presenter for Feminist Futures: New Directions in Gender and Feminist StudiesInstitute for Research on WomenRutgers University

2009

August 8-11

The Labor Sending State as a Determinant of International MigrationRegular Session: Migration Patterns and Settlement Processes in the Local, Regional and Global ContextAnnual Meeting, American Sociological Association

August 7 Countertopographies of Globalization: Diasporic Nationalism and Migrant Transnationalism (with Valerie Francisco)Cross-Border Organizing and Transnational Activism SessionThe Social and Natural Limits of Globalization and the Current Conjuncture Conference

June 22-24 Labor ‘Diplomacy’: International Relations and the Brokerage of Migrant WorkersDiscourse and Power in Critical Policy Studies4th International Conference in Interpretive Policy Analysis

March 26-28

Domestic Debates: Feminism and the Feminization of Migration from the PhilippinesTaking Stock: Transformative Scholarship, Transforming PracticesMid-Atlantic Women’s Studies Association

Feb. 15-18 Domestic Debates: Feminism and the Feminization of MigrationGendered Crossings: Interdisciplinary ExplorationsAnnual Convention, International Studies Association

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2008

September 15

Discussant on film, Cash Flow FeverGlobal Initiatives Film Series on Human Rights: Content and DiscontentRutgers University

Sept 5-8 Migrant Workers and New Forms of Labor Transnationalism in AsiaRC 44 SessionFirst Forum of Sociology, International Sociological Association

June 6-8 Transnationalism and Filipino Immigrant Worker Organizing in the USPacific Northwest Labor History Association (PNLHA) and the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) Conference

April 16-20

Globalization and the New Challenges of Im/migrant Professional Workers: A Case Study of Filipina NursesSession on Globalization and Asian Pacific Islander Worker OrganizingAnnual Meeting, Association for Asian American Studies

March26-

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Securitization of Migration in the United States After 9/11Annual Convention, International Studies Association

2007

October 5 Race and Immigration in NJ After 9/11Forum on Race and EthnicityCenter for Race and Ethnicity, Rutgers University

August 10-14

New Forms of Labor Transnationalism: A Case Study of Philippine Migrant OrganizingRegular Session: Labor and Labor MovementsAnnual Meeting, American Sociological Association

April 4-7 ‘From the Bay to the Middle East, We've Got to Stop this US Beast’: Filipino and Arab Trans-nationalisms and Solidarities

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Arab Americans, Asian Americans and Civil Rights SessionAnnual Meeting, Association for Asian American Studies

2006July 23-29 The Securitization of Migration and its Impacts on

Migrant Students: Comparative U.S. and German Perspectives (co-authored with Helen Schwenken)RC 30 SessionWorld Congress of Sociology, International Sociological Association

July 23-29 Transnational Filipino Migrant Organizing: A Case-Study of Migrante InternationalRC 44 SessionWorld Congress of Sociology, International Sociological Association

March 30-April 2

Challenging the Limits of the Law: A Case Study of Migrante InternationalAnnual Meeting, Midwest Sociological Society

March 10 Work and ImmigrationColloquium on Race and EthnicityCenter for Race and Ethnicity, Rutgers University

February 21

The State, Transnationalism and Labor Migration from the Philippines

Research BriefingDepartment of Women and Gender Studies, Rutgers University

January 26 The Labor Brokering State: The Philippine State and the Globalization of Citizen-WorkersInstitute for Research on Women Diasporas and Migrations Seminar, Rutgers University

Courses Taught

Graduate• Ethnographic Methods• Labor and Globalization

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• Nationalism, Migration, Citizenship

Undergraduate • Globalization and Migration: U.S. and Comparative

Perspectives• Immigrant Minorities in the U.S.• Immigrant States: Jersey’s Global Routes/Immigration in New

Jersey Today• Introduction to Sociology• Race Relations• Sociology of Gender• Sociology of the Third World• Filipino-American Experience• Asia/Asian America• Contemporary Asian American Issues• Asian American Internship Course

Professional Service

International

Present

February 12, 2013

2006-2010

Advisory Board, Plaridel:  A Journal of Philippine Communication, Media and Society

“Migration and Ethnography of the State”Migration Mentor Series, Univesity of British Columbia

Executive Board Member, Research Committee on Labor and Labor Movements (RC 44), International Sociological Association

Activities:2008 Co-organized sessions for First Forum of Sociology, Barcelona, Spain2008 Co-edited newsletter2010 Co-organized sessions for World Congress of Sociology, Gothenburg, Sweden

National

2009-2010 Editorial Board Member, Transformation: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy

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2006-2010 Editorial Board Member, SIGNS

2006-2009 National Board Member, Association for Asian American Studies.

Regular member of:American Sociological AssociationAssociation for Asian American StudiesInternational Sociological Association

Referee: Feminist Economics, Gender and Society, Meridians, Signs: Journal of Women and Society; Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, Identities, Journal of Asian American Studies, Social Forces, International Journal of Feminist Politics, Sociological Forum, International Journal of Modern Sociology, Temple University Press, University of Illinois Press, American Journal of Sociology, Global Labor Journal, Social Forces

U.C. DavisAsian American Studies

2011-Present Undergraduate Committee

2012-Present Scholarships Committee

Cultural Studies Graduate Program

2011-2012 Admissions Committee

2012-2013 Fellowship Committee

Rutgers University

2010

2010

Member, International Programs Advisory Committee for the School of Arts and Sciences

Member, Committee to Advance Our Common Purposes (CACP).

2010 Member, Center on Migration and the Global City (Rutgers, Newark).

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2010 Co-organizing lecture series in conjunction with SAS Signature Course, “Immigrant States: Jersey’s Global Routes” (with Carlos Decena).

2009-2010 Co-organizer Women of Color Scholars group (with Zaire Dinzey Flores)

Activities: Co-organized professional development workshops 2009- 2010. Co-organized Women of Color Research Symposium, Sept. 24, 2010.

2009-2010 Faculty Mentor, School of Arts and Sciences Honors Program

2007-2010 Executive Committee Member, Institute for Research on Women

2007-2010 Member, Politics of Global Security Cluster

2007-2010 Member, Migration Across the Americas ClusterActivities: Co-organized the “Transnational Citizenship Across the Americas” Conference in Spring 2010.

2006-2010 Member, Program on Immigration and Democracy, Eagleton Institute of Politics

Activities: Organized lecture series on immigration-related issues.

2005-2010 Member, Collective for Asian American StudiesRutgers University

Activities: Co-organized faculty-graduate student reading group, lecture series and Re/Siting Asian American Studies Conference in Spring 2010.

Department of Sociology

2009-2010 Committee membership: Executive Committee, Graduate Committee

2008-2009 Committee membership: Colloquium CommitteeOther Activities:Fall Semester: Organized Second Annual Career Fair; Participant in graduate student professional development workshop

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2007-2008 Committee memberships: SAS Meeting Representative; Search Committee (Gender and Globalization)

Other Activities:Summer: Represented Department at Academic Planning and Advising DaysFall Semester: Organized brown bag discussion on international farmers’ movements; Organized First Annual Career Fair, Participant in graduate student professional development workshop, Spring Semester: Oganized graduate student reading group on Bourdieu and Foucault

2006-2007 Committee memberships: Graduate Committee; FAS Meeting Representative

Other Activities:Summer: Represented department in Rutgers New Faculty Traveling SeminarFall: Organized lecture by Dr. Helen Schwenken Kassel University, “Between Gender Mainstreaming, Managing Diversity, and Anti-Discrimination; Co-coordinator of Woodshed WorkshopSpring: Represented department at Livingston College Class of 2007 Commencement Convocation

2005-2006 Committee memberships: FAS Meeting Representative; Undergraduate Committee

Other

Oct. 8, 2010

Feb. 18, 2010

2006-2008

Asian American Studies Graduate WorkshopUniversity of California, Los Angeles

Methods Workshop: An Introduction to EthnographyInstitute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging,

Rutgers University

Co-Coordinator, Women and Society Seminar,Columbia University Seminars

Community ServiceEducational Workshops (Selected)

February 1, 2013 “Filipino Americans in Higher Education,”

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Filipino American Educations of California, Sacramento

May 24, 2012 “Migrants for Export,”Kaibigan, Portland State University Portland

April 19, 2012 “Migrants for Export,” Filipino Advocates for Justice, Oakland

March 26, 2012 “Filipino-Mexican Labor Solidarities,” La Hermandad, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San

Diego

March 17, 2012 “The Labor Export Program and U.S. Filipinos,” National Alliance for Filipino Concerns, Bayanihan Center, San Francisco.

March 10, 2012 “The Labor Export Program and U.S. Filipinos,” SanDiwa Regional Conference, Stanford University

Feburary 21, 2012 “Emerging Issues in the Filipino Community,” Filipino Law Students Association's Culture Week, UC Davis Law School

February 5, 2012 “Asian American Student Movement,” UC Davis, Asian Pacific Islander Leadership Retreat,

Sausalito

November 22, 2011 “Filipino American History Month,” South City High School, South San Francisco

November 14, 2011 “Migranteng Pilipino” Babae/GABRIELA USA and Filipino Community

Center, Filipino Community Center, San Francisco

October 29, 2011Guest Speaker. Northwest Filipino American Students Associations,

Seattle

October 25, 2011Guest Speaker. Immigrant States, Rutgers University

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October, 11, 2011 “Hoy Gising” Filipino American History Month Lecture,

Bridge: Pilipin@ Outreach and Retention, UC Davis

June 12, 2011

May 2008

Keynote speaker, Filipino Graduation CelebrationUC Davis

Keynote speaker, Rainbow Graduation CelebrationOffice of Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities, Rutgers University

Board Memberships, Collaborations, etc.

2011-Present

2006-2007

Co-Coordinator of CARE Project, Filipino Community Center, San Francisco

National Board Member, National Alliance for Filipino Concerns

2005-2010 Philippine Forum, Board Member

2005-2008 New Jersey Civil Rights Defense Committee, Volunteer

2003-Present

Founder and Member, Critical Filipino Studies Collective

2002-2006 Founder and Board Member, Filipino Community Support (FOCUS)

Media Appearances (Selected)

“On Transnational Citizenship,” (with Ulla Berg). U.C. Humanities Forum, 2013. http://uchumanitiesforum.org/2013/02/07/3275/

“New Faculty Profile,” U.C. Davis Humanities Institution, 2012. http://dhi.ucdavis.edu/?page_id=9660

“The Art of the Lecture,” Rutgers Magazine, 2011. http://magazine.rutgers.edu/features/fall-2011/the-art-of-the-lecture

“Race, Immigration, and Belonging in New Jersey: Aresty Researchers Look at Politics Surrounding Immigration Debate,”

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Rutgers University Media Reelations, 2011. http://news.rutgers.edu/medrel/research/aresty-2011-overview-20110413/race-immigration-and-20110413

“Immigrant States,” Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences, 2011. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENr5UmeFL1A

Panelist. “Immigration: Arizona and Beyond” in Fresh Outlook Program, Ebru TV. September 6, 2010.

Featured guest on EBRU-TV’s Fresh Outlook program two times speaking on the topics, “The Arizona Immigration Bill” and “The USA and Global Migration.” September 2010.

Interview by Balitang America (a national Filipino-American news program) for her research on Philippine migration. October 8, 2010.

Interview. “After healthcare, immigration reform: Immigration will be the Democrats' next big battle, as they try to please Latino voters, business and blue collar workers” by Michael Paarlberg in The UK Guardian. March 26, 2010.

Interview. “Hot Topics: How the Immigration Issue Plays Locally” in Rutgers University Today. April 30, 2010.

Interview. “Immigration in New Jersey” by Princeton Community Television. 2007.

Interview. “Pinoy Abroad” Program, GMA-7 (Philippines). 2006.

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