Transnational Filipinx Diaspora Studies

Our research cluster brings together students from English, Education, Geography, and other departments to explore influential and contemporary scholarship in cultural diaspora studies. We will focus on the social, cultural, economic, and political implications of transnational settlements of Filipinx peoples. As more than a million Philippine overseas workers move throughout the Middle East, Asia, and North America while retaining Filipino citizenship, our graduate research will investigate Filipinx diaspora beyond the U.S.-Philippines binary axis to ask questions about race, decolonization, and labor.

Image: Assaulting the Eye with Ecstasy by Pacita Abad (1984; acrylic, embroidery, buttons, mirrors on stitched and padded canvas). Image used with permission.