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 uses socially engaged research methods to examine social reproduction and labour and immigration policies in Canada and in comparative perspective and their effects on migrant communities. She is also a social movement scholar who examines the strategies and goals of migrant movements worldwide. Most recently, she was the Principal Investigator that examined Filipina Care Workers’ experiences during COVID-19, in partnership with Migrant Resource Centre Canada and Gabriela-ON. Ethel joined the Carework Network Steering Committee in 2023.

Select Publications:

Tungohan, Ethel  (2023). Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Communities of Care and Movement-Building. Champaign: Illinois: University of Illinois Press.

 Tungohan, Ethel (2019). “Global Care Chains and the Spectral Histories of Care Migration,” International Journal of Care & Caring 3 (2): 229-245.

Tungohan, Ethel (2017). “The Transformative and Radical Feminism of Grassroots Migrant Women’s Movement(s) in Canada,” Canadian Journal of Political Science 50 (2): 479-494