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The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in a Digital Age

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The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in a Digital Age (University of Illinois Press, Spring 2018) is anchored in the experiences and lives of Filipina migrants and their families in the Philippines and the main objective of this book is to make visible all of the forms, roles and definitions of social reproductive labor and care work required in the maintenance … Read more

Exploring Spanish and American Colonialism to Post-Colonialism: A Filipina American’s Creative Process

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Filmmaker Angel Velasco Shaw will screen her first two experimental documentaries and discuss the creative process and relationship to her own on-going interest in exploring the effects of Spanish and American colonialism, and empire building on Filipino/American experiences from a transnationalist perspective. BALIKBAYAN (Return To Home): Super-8 film mastered on 3/4.” 13 minutes. 1988. Documentary … Read more