Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
In Caring for Caregivers: Filipina Migrant Workers and Community Building during Crisis (University of Washington Press, 2025), Valerie Francisco-Menchavez centers the perspectives of Filipino caregivers in the San Francisco Bay Area from 2013 to 2021, illuminating their transnational experiences and their strategies and practices to help each other navigate the crumbling U.S. healthcare system.
FOR GENERATIONS, IN INDIA AND AROUND THE WORLD, school teachers in classrooms have struggled to contain the impulse that children have to move around. Hundreds of psychologists, on the hunt for explanations for the comparatively poor performance of boys in schools, and their apparently increasing disdain for formal education, allege that children, and boys in … Read more
Filmmaker Siyan Liu discusses her current documentary project, FACTORY GIRLS, on China’s female migrant workforce. In 2014, Siyan and her production team traveled to Dongguan, China, a major manufacturing hub and home to 1.7 million female factory workers, to conduct research into the lives of these workers, their struggles and motivations. FACTORY GIRLS challenges our … Read more
This talk examines the transformation of migrant labor in China in the context of post-socialist economic and social shifts, exploring the experiences of laborers amidst rapid urbanization and changing policies. It provides critical insights into the intersection of migration, labor rights, and state governance in contemporary China.
The California Supreme Court posthumously awards a law licence to a Chinese immigrant who was barred from becoming a lawyer 125 years ago. Source: Chinese migrant given US law licence 125 years on – BBC News
Ha Jin has published over ten books of poetry and fiction and won numerous rewards including PEN/Hemingway Award, PEN/Faulkner Award, Flannery O’Conner Award, and the American Book Award. The Writer as Migrant is his first work of nonfiction. In this collection of essays he reflects on the handicaps and advantages of a migrant writer, the … Read more