Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far
and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

Celero

RESEARCH NOTES

2023. Researching the Intimate: Methodological Issues and Insights into Studying Japanese-Filipino Intermarriages/Pagsasaliksik ng Personal na Buhay: Mga Isyu at Kabatirang Metodolohikal sa Pagsasaliksik ng mga Pamilyang Japanese-Filipino. In intermarriage.asia, 7 April.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

2023. "From Migrant Workers to Professional Teachers: The Reintegration of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) through "Sa Pinas, Ikaw ay Ma'am, Sir" (SPIMS) Program. The Migration Conference 2023 Selected Papers. Series No. 27. Transnational London Press. (Co-authored with Rowena R. Hibanada). 
2023. A Quantitative Analysis of Barriers to International Telemedicine Education: The Case of the Philippines. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - ICT4AWE. ISBN 978-989-758-645-3; ISSN 2184-4984. SciTePress: 75-80. (Co-authored with T. Oga, K. Panganiban, K. Kudo, S. Ueda, S. Tomimatsu, J. Domino, and T. Moriyama)

POLICY PAPERS/BRIEFS

2024. Promoting Literacy in Philippine Systems of Health and Social Security among Filipino Migrant Domestic Workers: Challenges and Ways Forward. PIDS Policy Note. (Co-authored with Melissa R. Garabiles and Evangeline Katigbak-Montoya) [Forthcoming].
2023. “Creating Gender-Responsive Literacy Programs toward Health and Social Security Systems Inclusion of Filipino Migrant Domestic Workers in East Asia." PIDS Discussion Paper Series. No. 36: 1-32. (Co-authored with Melissa R. Garabiles and Evangeline O. Katigbak-Montoya).
2023. How Literate are Filipino Migrant Workers in East Asia on Health and Social Security Systems? PIDS Policy Note, 2023-06. (Co-authored with Melissa R. Garabiles and Evangeline Katigbak-Montoya).
2022. “Scoping Study on Health and Social Security Systems Literacy of Filipino Migrant Workers in East Asia”. PIDS Discussion Paper Series. No. 46: 1-79. (Co-authored with Melissa R. Garabiles and Evangeline O. Katigbak-Montoya).

ESSAYS

2023. Review of the Politics of International Marriage in Japan. In Asian and Pacific Migration Journal  (0): 1–4.

2023. “Tungkol sa Oras, Panahon at mga Danas bilang Mag-aaral sa Japan.” In Banwa at Layag: Antolohiya ng mga Kwentong Paglalakbay ng mga Pilipino sa Ibayong Dagat. Edited by Axle Christien Tugano, 151-58. Manila: Limbagang Pangkasaysayan.

2020. "Narrating belonging and intimacy through food: Sinigang and transnational Japanese-Filipino Families." Routed, Issue 11, 15 August.

2020. Review of Being a Mother in a Strange Land: Motherhood Experiences of Chinese Migrant Women in the Netherlands. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 0 (0): 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1177/0117196820920741

2019. "Japan in Reiwa Era: Embracing Global Change in a Society with Foreigners" (世界的視野で変化受け入れを外国人と共に生きる社会に). Manila Shimbun, 4 April, p. 1.

POETRY

2003. "Mga Hibik na Pumatak sa Batuhan." In Ang Aklat Likhaan ng Tula at Maikling Kuwento, edited by Domingo Landicho and Lilia Quindoza Santiago, 45. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press.

COURSES TAUGHT

  • AS 201 Asia in Antiquity
  • AS 201 A Modern Asia
  • AS 210 Theories and Perspectives on Area Studies
  • AS 230 Seminar in Northeast Asia
  • AS 234 Special Problems in Northeast Asia (Social Welfare and Policy in East Asia)
  • AS 234 Special Problems in Northeast Asia (Globalization and Society in East Asia)
  • AS 234 Special Problems in Northeast Asia (Migration, Identity, and Citizenship in East Asia)
  • AS 234 Special Problems in Northeast Asia (Media, Minorities, and Everyday Marginality in East Asia)
  • AS 236.1 Social and Economic Development in Japan
  • AS 236.2 Politics and Governance of Japan
  • AS 236.3 Society and Culture in Japan
  • PS 212 Filipino Identities
  • PS 215 Philippine Language and Cultures
  • PS 216 Filipino Diaspora
  • PS 268 Philippine Foreign Relations and East Asia
  • Life and Works of Jose Rizal (DLS-College of St. Benilde)
  • Philippine History (DLS-College of St. Benilde)
  • Introduction to Global Migration (Sophia University, Tokyo)

JOURNAL ARTICLES

2022. "Myth, History and Contemporary Politics in Japan: Introduction." Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives 58 (1): i-iv.

2018. "Fierté et honte: les émotions des enfants japono-philippins qui migrent pour études." Migrations Société 30 (172): 35–56. 

2014. “In Fulfillment of Motherhood: An Exploratory Study of Migrant Mothers on Welfare in Japan.” Global Social Welfare 1 (4): 179–89.

BOOK CHAPTERS

2023. “International Marriage, Migration and Transnational Family Life in Asia: The Case of Japanese-Filipino Families.” In Handbook of Transnational Families, edited by Javiera Cienfuegos, Rosa Maria Brandhorst, and Deborah Fahy Bryceson, 131-145. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. 

2022. "Intergenerational Intimacies and Mobilities in Transnational Families: The Experiences of Japanese-Filipino Children." In Tangled Mobilities: Places, Affects, and Personhood across Social Sphere, edited by Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot and Gracia Liu-Farrer, 157-181. New York: Berghahn Books.
2021. "Settling for Welfare? Shifting Access to Welfare, Migration and Settlement Aspirations of Filipina Single Mothers in Japan.” In Migration to and from Welfare States: Lived Experiences of the Welfare–Migration Nexus in a Globalised World, edited by Oleksandr Ryndyk,  Brigitte Suter, and Gunhild Odden, 87–104. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature.
2020. "Mixed Racial and Ethnic Classification in the Philippines." In The Palgrave Handbook of Mixed Racial and Ethnic Classification, edited by Zarine L. Rocha and Peter J. Aspinall, 693–709. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan (Co-authored with Megumi Hara).

2019. "Philippine Foreign Relations: A Look Back in 2018." In 2018 Philippine Development Report, edited by Joefe B. Santarita and Noel Christian Moratilla, 141–58. Hainan: Hainan Normal University.

2018. “Bonds, Bridges and Links of Hope: Migrant Support Organizations (MSOs) as Agents of Social Integration of Japanese-Filipino Families." In Thinking Beyond the State: Migration, Integration, and Citizenship in Japan and the Philippines, edited by Johanna Zulueta, 221–54. Manila and Sussex: De La Salle University Publishing House and Sussex Academic Press.

2018. “Growing Up in Transnational Families: Children’s Experiences and Perspectives.” In The Routledge Handbook on Asian Migrations, edited by Gracia Liu-Farrer and Brenda Yeoh, 250–63. London and New York: Routledge. Coauthored with Theodora Lam, Shirlena Huang, and Brenda S.A. Yeoh.

2017. "Minami: Two Centerstages as One." In Moving Portraits: Life Stories of Children of Migrant and Multicultural Families in Asia, edited by Maruja M.B. Asis and Karen Anne Liao, 79–84. Quezon City: Scalabrini Migration Center. 

2017. "Rumi and Sachi: Sisterly Love that Binds."  In Moving Portraits: Life Stories of Children of Migrant and Multicultural Families in Asia, edited by Maruja M.B. Asis and Karen Anne Liao, 85–90. Quezon City: Scalabrini Migration Center.

2017. “Mothering (in) Which Nation?” Parenting, Citizenship and Politics of Belonging of Filipino Mothers Raising Japanese-Filipino Children.” In Mothers, Mothering, and Globalization, edited by Dorsía Smith Silva, Laila Malik, and Abigail Palko, 183–208. Toronto: Demeter Press.

2015. “Towards a Shared Future?”: Transnational Identity and Belonging of Japanese-Filipino Families in Japan. In The Age of Asian Migration: Continuity, Diversity and Susceptibility Vol. II, edited by Yuk Wah Chan, Heidi Fung, and Grazyna Szymanska Matusiewicz, 67–94. UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

2014. “Bicultural Parenting in the Eyes of a Mother: Filipino Women’s Politics of Mothering Japanese-Filipino Children." In Migration and Creation of Multicultural Society in Japan, edited by Lydia Yu-Jose and Johanna Zulueta, 80–90. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press.

EDUCATION

  • BSE Major in History, Philippine Normal University-Manila, 2002
  • MA Asian Studies, (Southeast Asian Studies), University of the Philippines-Diliman, 2008
  • MA Global Studies, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, 2012
  • Ph.D. International Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, 2016

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Japan Studies
  • Filipino Migration to Japan
  • Japan and Philippine (and Southeast Asia) Relations
  • Social welfare, development and policy in East Asia