
Faculty Associate
tungohan[at]yorku.ca
Canada Research Chair in Canadian Migration Policy, Impacts and Activism; Associate Professor
Department of Politics, York University
Research Keywords:
Migrant activism; temporary labour migration and immigration policies; care work; social movements
Research Region(s):
Philippines
Research Diaspora(s):
Asian Diaspora, Filipino Diaspora
Dr. Ethel Tungohan is a Canada Research Chair in Canadian Migration Policy, Impacts and Activism and an Associate Professor of Politics. She received her PhD in Political Science and a Collaborative Degree in Gender & Women’s Studies from the University of Toronto. Her recent publications are: Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Communities of Care and Movement-Building (University of Illinois Press 2023, National Women’s Studies Association First Book Prize series; and Containing Diversity: Canada and the Politics of Immigration in the 21st Century (University of Toronto Press 2022), co-authored with Yasmeen Abu-Laban and Christina Gabriel and and awarded an honourable mention for the Seymour Lipset Best Book Prize. Her research looks at the Filipino diaspora’s engagement in social movement activism, global migration, and Filipino Diaspora studies.