Ethel Tungohan is a Broadbent Fellow and an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Politics at York University and a Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Canadian Migrant Policy, Impacts, and Activism. Her work looks at migrant social movements and at immigration policy, with a specific focus on temporary labour migration.
‘Care Activism’ challenges the stereotype of a downtrodden migrant caregivers by showing that care workers have distinct ways of caring for themselves, for each other, and for the larger transnational imagined community of care workers and their families.
Ethel Tungohan illuminates how the goals and desires of migrant care worker activists go beyond political considerations like policy changes and overturning power structures.
Without the care work provided by Filipino migrant care workers, many countries would have a difficult time coping with high health care demands, particularly during a pandemic.
