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

▼ JOURNAL ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

JOURNAL ARTICLES

2025. "Conversations with Social Scientists: Sociologist Maruja Milagros Billones Asis, PhD Sojourns of a Filipino Migration Scholar." Social Science Diliman 19 (2): 97 - 109.

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 REVIEWS

2025. "Navigating the Cultures of Health Care and Health  Insurance: Highly Skilled Migrants in the US, Nina Zeldes  (2023): A Book Review." Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration 9 (1): 142 - 5.