Valerie Francisco-Menchavez
Biographic Data
| ID | 389857 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valerie Francisco-Menchavez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valerie |
| FAMILY NAME | Francisco-Menchavez |
| SIGNATURE | FRANCISCO-MENCHAVEZ V |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Francisco State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7268-5799 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Accumulating delay: Filipino Time, Covid-19 and experiences of male returnees in Cebu
Unique to this paper is a gendered examination of return migration from the point of view of male return migrants. I analyze the perspectives of repatriated male migrant workers during their return migration in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. Through a discussion of time as “accumulated delay,” I suggest that the (de)constructions of masculinity concerning overseas Filipino workers’ (OFWs) experiences of waiting and delay under repatriation an…
Filipino Formal Caregivers to the Elderly and Normalized Exploitation in the Workplace
The goal of this exploratory study was examine formal Filipino/a caregivers' sociocultural contexts in working as caregivers for the elderly and its impacts on their health. As the demand for care workers for the aging Baby Boomer generation grows in the United States, Filipinos/as migrant workers are among the ethnic migrants who answer this call. In a mixed-methods study, we find that Filipino/a formal caregivers normalize exploitation in their…
Filipino Home Care Workers: Invisible Frontline Workers in the Covid-19 Crisis in the United States
Filipino home care workers are at the frontlines of assisted living facilities and residential care facilities for the elderly (RCFEs), yet their work has largely been unseen. We attribute this invisibility to the existing elder care crisis in the United States, further exacerbated by COVID-19. Based on quantitative and qualitative data with Filipino workers before and during the COVID-19 crisis, we find that RCFEs have failed to comply with labo…
Researching Queenila and living in-between: Multi-sited Ethnography, migrant epistemology and transnational families
I explore multi-sited ethnography as a method and methodology in an increasingly globalized world wherein migration and separation are social facts in the histories of families in the Philippines. I argue that multi-sited ethnography and migrant epistemology is a compelling methodology in investigating precarity under neoliberalism as the method mirrors the social realities both migrants abroad and their families in their homelands. In this paper…
Mula Sa Masa, Tungo Sa Masa, From the People, To the People: Building Migrant Worker Power through Participatory Action Research
In this article, we explore the possibilities of Participatory Action Research (PAR) producing ethical and nuanced knowledge that contributes to developing Filipino migrant workers’ capacity for sustainable political organizing. We discuss our projects with Filipino migrant organizations in the U.S. and Canada. We theorize on the potential of PAR with migrants who are part of highly precarious workforces in global cities. Additionally, we, as imm…
All in the family: Transnational families and stepwise migration strategies
Filipino transnational families often hold the histories of stepwise migration carried out by earlier generations. In this article, I argue that considering the transnational family as the unit of analysis for studying stepwise migration can help us understand onward migratory trajectories in two important ways. First, stepwise migratory choices are affected by how past generations within the transnational family have fared in particular location…
A Mother Who Leaves is a Mother Who Loves: Labor Migration as Part of the Filipina Life Course and Motherhood
A Mother Who Leaves is a Mother Who LovesLabor Migration as Part of the Filipina Life Course and Motherhood Valerie Francisco-Menchavez (bio) Filipinas have accepted that migration is a part of the rubric of their life course and motherhood, a simple and perhaps basic principle in the study of Filipina migration.1 However, this straightforward idea shifts how Filipinas are redefining their understanding of what it means to be a mother in their li…
The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age
The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age
"For generations, migration moved in one direction at a time: migrants to host countries, and money to families left behind. The Labor of Care argues that globalization has changed all that. Valerie Francisco-Menchavez spent five years alongside a group of working migrant mothers. Drawing on interviews and up-close collaboration with these women, Francisco-Menchavez looks at the sacrifices, emotional and material consequences, and recasting of ro…
Sukli: Uneven exchanges of care work of children left behind in Filipino transnational families
This article explores the complicated affective realities of children in the Philippines who engage in the labour of caring from the place of being ‘left behind’. I explore how children demonstrate care for their migrant mothers through various schooling tasks, undergirded by emotional dissonance, and often not through an idealized notion of love or tenderness. These acts demonstrate children allocate care work in transnational families in spite …
Claiming Kapwa: Filipino Immigrants, Community-Based Organizations, and Community Citizenship in San Francisco
Filipino immigrants and Filipino-serving community-based organizations (CBOs) in San Francisco work to meet community members’ immediate needs. At the same time, it activates political participation for Filipinos to make claims on traditional citizenship from the city agencies under an albeit xenophobic climate. Although city-level legislation marks San Francisco as politically progressive, Filipino community members experience the national anti-…
The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age
"For generations, migration moved in one direction at a time: migrants to host countries, and money to families left behind. The Labor of Care argues that globalization has changed all that. Valerie Francisco-Menchavez spent five years alongside a group of working migrant mothers. Drawing on interviews and up-close collaboration with these women, Francisco-Menchavez looks at the sacrifices, emotional and material consequences, and recasting of ro…
All in the family: Transnational families and stepwise migration strategies
Filipino transnational families often hold the histories of stepwise migration carried out by earlier generations. In this article, I argue that considering the transnational family as the unit of analysis for studying stepwise migration can help us understand onward migratory trajectories in two important ways. First, stepwise migratory choices are affected by how past generations within the transnational family have fared in particular location…
Filipino Home Care Workers: Invisible Frontline Workers in the Covid-19 Crisis in the United States
Filipino home care workers are at the frontlines of assisted living facilities and residential care facilities for the elderly (RCFEs), yet their work has largely been unseen. We attribute this invisibility to the existing elder care crisis in the United States, further exacerbated by COVID-19. Based on quantitative and qualitative data with Filipino workers before and during the COVID-19 crisis, we find that RCFEs have failed to comply with labo…
Sukli: Uneven exchanges of care work of children left behind in Filipino transnational families
This article explores the complicated affective realities of children in the Philippines who engage in the labour of caring from the place of being ‘left behind’. I explore how children demonstrate care for their migrant mothers through various schooling tasks, undergirded by emotional dissonance, and often not through an idealized notion of love or tenderness. These acts demonstrate children allocate care work in transnational families in spite …
A Mother Who Leaves is a Mother Who Loves: Labor Migration as Part of the Filipina Life Course and Motherhood
A Mother Who Leaves is a Mother Who LovesLabor Migration as Part of the Filipina Life Course and Motherhood Valerie Francisco-Menchavez (bio) Filipinas have accepted that migration is a part of the rubric of their life course and motherhood, a simple and perhaps basic principle in the study of Filipina migration.1 However, this straightforward idea shifts how Filipinas are redefining their understanding of what it means to be a mother in their li…
Claiming Kapwa: Filipino Immigrants, Community-Based Organizations, and Community Citizenship in San Francisco
Filipino immigrants and Filipino-serving community-based organizations (CBOs) in San Francisco work to meet community members’ immediate needs. At the same time, it activates political participation for Filipinos to make claims on traditional citizenship from the city agencies under an albeit xenophobic climate. Although city-level legislation marks San Francisco as politically progressive, Filipino community members experience the national anti-…
The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age
The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age
"For generations, migration moved in one direction at a time: migrants to host countries, and money to families left behind. The Labor of Care argues that globalization has changed all that. Valerie Francisco-Menchavez spent five years alongside a group of working migrant mothers. Drawing on interviews and up-close collaboration with these women, Francisco-Menchavez looks at the sacrifices, emotional and material consequences, and recasting of ro…
Sukli: Uneven exchanges of care work of children left behind in Filipino transnational families
This article explores the complicated affective realities of children in the Philippines who engage in the labour of caring from the place of being ‘left behind’. I explore how children demonstrate care for their migrant mothers through various schooling tasks, undergirded by emotional dissonance, and often not through an idealized notion of love or tenderness. These acts demonstrate children allocate care work in transnational families in spite …
Claiming Kapwa: Filipino Immigrants, Community-Based Organizations, and Community Citizenship in San Francisco
Filipino immigrants and Filipino-serving community-based organizations (CBOs) in San Francisco work to meet community members’ immediate needs. At the same time, it activates political participation for Filipinos to make claims on traditional citizenship from the city agencies under an albeit xenophobic climate. Although city-level legislation marks San Francisco as politically progressive, Filipino community members experience the national anti-…
A Mother Who Leaves is a Mother Who Loves: Labor Migration as Part of the Filipina Life Course and Motherhood
A Mother Who Leaves is a Mother Who LovesLabor Migration as Part of the Filipina Life Course and Motherhood Valerie Francisco-Menchavez (bio) Filipinas have accepted that migration is a part of the rubric of their life course and motherhood, a simple and perhaps basic principle in the study of Filipina migration.1 However, this straightforward idea shifts how Filipinas are redefining their understanding of what it means to be a mother in their li…
Researching Queenila and living in-between: Multi-sited Ethnography, migrant epistemology and transnational families
I explore multi-sited ethnography as a method and methodology in an increasingly globalized world wherein migration and separation are social facts in the histories of families in the Philippines. I argue that multi-sited ethnography and migrant epistemology is a compelling methodology in investigating precarity under neoliberalism as the method mirrors the social realities both migrants abroad and their families in their homelands. In this paper…
Mula Sa Masa, Tungo Sa Masa, From the People, To the People: Building Migrant Worker Power through Participatory Action Research
In this article, we explore the possibilities of Participatory Action Research (PAR) producing ethical and nuanced knowledge that contributes to developing Filipino migrant workers’ capacity for sustainable political organizing. We discuss our projects with Filipino migrant organizations in the U.S. and Canada. We theorize on the potential of PAR with migrants who are part of highly precarious workforces in global cities. Additionally, we, as imm…
All in the family: Transnational families and stepwise migration strategies
Filipino transnational families often hold the histories of stepwise migration carried out by earlier generations. In this article, I argue that considering the transnational family as the unit of analysis for studying stepwise migration can help us understand onward migratory trajectories in two important ways. First, stepwise migratory choices are affected by how past generations within the transnational family have fared in particular location…
Filipino Formal Caregivers to the Elderly and Normalized Exploitation in the Workplace
The goal of this exploratory study was examine formal Filipino/a caregivers' sociocultural contexts in working as caregivers for the elderly and its impacts on their health. As the demand for care workers for the aging Baby Boomer generation grows in the United States, Filipinos/as migrant workers are among the ethnic migrants who answer this call. In a mixed-methods study, we find that Filipino/a formal caregivers normalize exploitation in their…
Filipino Home Care Workers: Invisible Frontline Workers in the Covid-19 Crisis in the United States
Filipino home care workers are at the frontlines of assisted living facilities and residential care facilities for the elderly (RCFEs), yet their work has largely been unseen. We attribute this invisibility to the existing elder care crisis in the United States, further exacerbated by COVID-19. Based on quantitative and qualitative data with Filipino workers before and during the COVID-19 crisis, we find that RCFEs have failed to comply with labo…
Accumulating delay: Filipino Time, Covid-19 and experiences of male returnees in Cebu
Unique to this paper is a gendered examination of return migration from the point of view of male return migrants. I analyze the perspectives of repatriated male migrant workers during their return migration in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. Through a discussion of time as “accumulated delay,” I suggest that the (de)constructions of masculinity concerning overseas Filipino workers’ (OFWs) experiences of waiting and delay under repatriation an…
Migration and Labor Dynamics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Economics (4 works)