Overseas Filipino Workers: The Emergence of an Asian-Pacific Diaspora

by: E San Juan Jr November 10, 2009

The Philippine nation-state often gets world attention only when calamities—such as the recent typhoon Ondoy’s unprecedented flooding of metropolitan Manila, with thousands of homes destroyed and several hundreds killed, due to government neglect; or the nearly 100,000 refugees created by… Read the rest

Returning from the Diaspora, Re-discovering the Homeland

by: E San Juan Jr December 10, 2008

I am pleased and honored to congratulate the alumni of the Philippine Studies Program at this time when so many events here and in the Philippines—disasters, crises, emergencies–are forcing us to think what we should do to advance social justice… Read the rest

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