Selected Publications
Mediations of Care: Brokering Labour in the Age of Robotics
Winner of Pacific Affairs’ William J. Holland Prize
Pacific Affairs, volume 91, number 4, December 2018
Coding Care
In Redesigning AI: Work Democracy,and Justice in the Age of Automation, edited by Daron Acemoglu, 163-171. Cambridge, MA: Boston Review Forum, 2021.
Reprinted as “Here Come the Robot Nurses” in Boston Review, August 2, 2021
Marketing Dreams, Manufacturing Heroes: The Transnational Labor Brokering of Filipino Workers
Winner of the 2010 American Sociological Association's Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award, from the Race, Gender, and Class section | Honorable mention, 2011 American Sociological Association's Section on Asia and Asian America Book Award
Immigrant Women Workers in the Neoliberal Age
Edited by: Nilda Flores-Gonzalez, Anna Romina Guevarra, Maura Toro-Morn, and Grace Chang, 2013.
Labor and Carework
In Filipinx American Studies: Reckoning, Reclamation, and Transformation, edited by Rick Bonus and Anthony Tiongson Jr., 138-148. New York: Fordham University Press, 2022.
The Source of Actual Terror: The Philippine Macho-Fascist Duterte” (with Maya Arcilla)
Feminist Studies, 46(2): 489-494, 2020.
Additional publications (click on the title for more information)
Book chapter, “Domestic Worker Movement,” in Domestic Workers Movement", The SAGE Encylopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies (Edited by: Kevin Nadal, Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, and E. J. R. David, 2022.
Expert commentary in the report “Frontline Filipinx/a/os Health Care Workers.” In Deadly Disparities in the time of COVID-19: How Public Policy Fails Black and Latinx Chicagoans,” by the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, 49-52, 2021.
“Techno-Modeling Care: Racial Branding, Dis/embodied Labor and ‘Cybraceros’ in South Korea.” Frontiers: Journal of Women’s Studies (Special Issue on Transnational Feminism), 36(3): 139-159, 2015 .
“The Public Manager.” In Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity, edited by Joshua Barker, Erik Harms, and Johan Lindquist, 29-31. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2013.
“The Legacy of Undesirability: Filipino TNTs, ‘irregular migrants,’ and ‘outlaws’ in the U.S. cultural imaginary.” Invited contribution to Filipino Studies: Palimpsests of Nation and Diaspora, edited by Martin Manalansan and Augusto Espiritu, 355-374. New York: NYU Press, 2016.
“Supermaids: The Racial Branding of Global Filipino Care Labour.” In Migration and Care Labour: Theory, Policy, and Politics, edited by Bridget Anderson and Isabel Shutes), 130-150. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
“Formalizing the Informal: Low-Wage immigrants, highly skilled Filipina caregivers and the Pilipino Workers’ Center” (co-authored with Lolita Lledo). In Immigrant Workers in the Neoliberal Age, edited by Nilda Flores-Gonzalez, Anna Romina Guevarra, Maura Toro-Morn, and Grace Chang, 247-261. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2013.
“The Balikbayan Researcher: Negotiating vulnerability in fieldwork with Filipino labor brokers.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 35(5): 526-551, 2006.
“Managing “vulnerabilities” and “empowering” migrant Filipina workers: The Philippines’ overseas employment program.” Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture, 12(5): 523-541, 2006.