Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far
and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

ARTICLES ◊ BOOK CHAPTERS

JOURNAL ARTICLES

2022. "Myth, History and Contemporary Politics in Japan: Introduction." Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives 58 (1): i-iv.

2018. "Fierté et honte: les émotions des enfants japono-philippins qui migrent pour études." Migrations Société 30 (172): 35–56. 

2014. “In Fulfillment of Motherhood: An Exploratory Study of Migrant Mothers on Welfare in Japan.” Global Social Welfare 1 (4): 179–89.

BOOK CHAPTERS

2023. “International Marriage, Migration and Transnational Family Life in Asia: The Case of Japanese-Filipino Families.” In Handbook of Transnational Families, edited by Javiera Cienfuegos, Rosa Maria Brandhorst, and Deborah Fahy Bryceson, 131-145. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. 

2022. "Intergenerational Intimacies and Mobilities in Transnational Families: The Experiences of Japanese-Filipino Children." In Tangled Mobilities: Places, Affects, and Personhood across Social Sphere, edited by Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot and Gracia Liu-Farrer, 157-181. New York: Berghahn Books.
2021. "Settling for Welfare? Shifting Access to Welfare, Migration and Settlement Aspirations of Filipina Single Mothers in Japan.” In Migration to and from Welfare States: Lived Experiences of the Welfare–Migration Nexus in a Globalised World, edited by Oleksandr Ryndyk,  Brigitte Suter, and Gunhild Odden, 87–104. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature.
2020. "Mixed Racial and Ethnic Classification in the Philippines." In The Palgrave Handbook of Mixed Racial and Ethnic Classification, edited by Zarine L. Rocha and Peter J. Aspinall, 693–709. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan (Co-authored with Megumi Hara).

2019. "Philippine Foreign Relations: A Look Back in 2018." In 2018 Philippine Development Report, edited by Joefe B. Santarita and Noel Christian Moratilla, 141–58. Hainan: Hainan Normal University.

2018. “Bonds, Bridges and Links of Hope: Migrant Support Organizations (MSOs) as Agents of Social Integration of Japanese-Filipino Families." In Thinking Beyond the State: Migration, Integration, and Citizenship in Japan and the Philippines, edited by Johanna Zulueta, 221–54. Manila and Sussex: De La Salle University Publishing House and Sussex Academic Press.

2018. “Growing Up in Transnational Families: Children’s Experiences and Perspectives.” In The Routledge Handbook on Asian Migrations, edited by Gracia Liu-Farrer and Brenda Yeoh, 250–63. London and New York: Routledge. Coauthored with Theodora Lam, Shirlena Huang, and Brenda S.A. Yeoh.

2017. "Minami: Two Centerstages as One." In Moving Portraits: Life Stories of Children of Migrant and Multicultural Families in Asia, edited by Maruja M.B. Asis and Karen Anne Liao, 79–84. Quezon City: Scalabrini Migration Center. 

2017. "Rumi and Sachi: Sisterly Love that Binds."  In Moving Portraits: Life Stories of Children of Migrant and Multicultural Families in Asia, edited by Maruja M.B. Asis and Karen Anne Liao, 85–90. Quezon City: Scalabrini Migration Center.

2017. “Mothering (in) Which Nation?” Parenting, Citizenship and Politics of Belonging of Filipino Mothers Raising Japanese-Filipino Children.” In Mothers, Mothering, and Globalization, edited by Dorsía Smith Silva, Laila Malik, and Abigail Palko, 183–208. Toronto: Demeter Press.

2015. “Towards a Shared Future?”: Transnational Identity and Belonging of Japanese-Filipino Families in Japan. In The Age of Asian Migration: Continuity, Diversity and Susceptibility Vol. II, edited by Yuk Wah Chan, Heidi Fung, and Grazyna Szymanska Matusiewicz, 67–94. UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

2014. “Bicultural Parenting in the Eyes of a Mother: Filipino Women’s Politics of Mothering Japanese-Filipino Children." In Migration and Creation of Multicultural Society in Japan, edited by Lydia Yu-Jose and Johanna Zulueta, 80–90. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press.