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
Ethel Tungohan is the Canada Research Chair in Canadian Migration Policy, Impacts and Activism, and Associate Professor of Politics 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 labour, specifically assessing migrant activism.
Dr. Tungohan specializes in socially engaged research and is actively involved in grassroots migrant organizations such as Gabriela-Ontario and Migrante-Canada.
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.