Ethel Tungohan
Ethel Tungohan is a Canada Research Chair in Canadian Migration Policy, Impacts and Activism and an Associate Professor of Politics at York University. Her work looks at temporary labour migration policies, migrant justice movements, and everyday practices of citizenship using critical ethnography, mixed methods, participatory action research and socially engaged research methodologies, as well as critical discourse analysis and Intersectionality Policy Analysis.
Her latest Social Sciences and Humanities Research (SSHRC)-funded project examines the experiences of immigrant and migrant direct care workers’ transitioning to post-COVID societies and economies, in partnership with migrant justice and care worker advocacy organizations in Ontario and in Alberta.
Recent Publications
Tungohan, E. (2023). Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Communities of Care and Movement-Building (external link) . University of Illinois Press. (National Women’s Studies Association First Book Prize series)
Abu-Laban, Y., Tungohan, E. & Gabriel, C. (2022). Containing Diversity: Canada and the Politics of Immigration in the 21st Century. (external link) University of Toronto Press.
Tungohan, E. (2021). The ‘Ideal’ Female Migrant as Grateful and Uncomplaining: Gendered Colonial Ideologies, Pre-Departure Orientation Sessions, and the #UngratefulFilipina (external link) . Alon: Journal for Filipinx American and Diasporic Studies 1(1): 35-50.