Ethnic Studies at the Library: Caring for Caregivers: Filipina Migrants and Community Building

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Community Engagement, Cultural Appreciation
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Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, PhD is an award-winning scholar-activist, researcher, writer and educator whose academic and political work calls attention to the experiences of Filipina migrants in care work industries and their indelible abilities to form solidarities and organize with one another. Dr. Francisco will discuss her newest book Caring for Caregivers (University of Washington Press, Critical Filipinx Studies Series, November 2024). Drawing on surveys, individual interviews, and caregivers’ stories as told through kuwentuhan, a Philippine cultural practice of collective storytelling, Caring for Caregivers offers an intimate examination of intergenerational care work in the Filipino American community. 

About the Speaker

Dr. Francisco is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University. Dr. Francisco’s body of work aims to recognize the multifaceted experiences of migration and transnationalism for people in the Filipina/x/o diaspora exploring their communities of care, political activism, conditions of low-wage work, and intergenerational dialogue. Her academic writing critically interrogates systems of capitalism that produce the conditions for historic and continued labor migration from the Philippines. Her development of innovative methods such as kuwentuhan in her research explores Filipino cultural practices as valid ways of knowing and navigation.

Dr. Francisco’s second book project, Caring for Caregivers: Filipina Migrant Workers and Community Building during Crisis, will be the inaugural book in the University of Washington Press, Critical Filipinx Studies Series, published in November 2024. Her academic work has been published in journals such as Critical Sociology, The Philippine Sociological Review, Alon: Journal of Filipinx Studies, and mainstream media outlets such as VICE, NPR, and SF Chronicle.

Website: https://valeriefm.com/

 

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