Valerie Francisco is a doctoral
candidate in the Department of Sociology at City University of New
York, The Graduate Center. Francisco's academic interests
include transnationalism and diaspora with a special interest on
the Philippine migration, family, gender and labor, and
globalization. Her dissertation research is with Filipino migrant
women working as domestic workers in New York City and their
families in the Philippines. In journals like The Philippine
Sociological Review and International Review of
Qualitative Research, Francisco writes about how families are
changing under neoliberal immigration policies and what types of
political subjectivities emerge from those conditions. In the
2011-2012 academic year, Francisco was the Dissertation Writing
Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of San
Francisco.
