Author: Robyn Rodriguez

Robyn Magalit Rodriguez (she/her, San Ramon, CA) is an Associate Professor of the Asian American Studies Department at the University of California, Davis. She earned her PhD in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley

Dr. Rodriguez’s research is broadly concerned with understanding how processes of globalization, particularly international migration, impact the societies that migrants leave and the societies to which they move. She has explored these concerns with a particular focus on Philippine migrant workers in the U.S. and globally. Her research has appeared in numerous academic journals and she's spoken both nationally and internationally about her work. Rodriguez's book, Migrants for Export: How the Philippines Brokers Labor to the World (University of Minnesota Press, 2010), won an Honorable Mention for Best Book in Social Science by the Association for Asian American Studies.

Along with Dr. Pawan Dhingra, Rodriguez co-authored the textbook Asian American: Sociological and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Polity Press, 2014). Most recently, Dr. Rodriguez has turned to examining questions of race, immigration and space in her soon to be published book, In Lady Liberty's Shadow: Race and Immigration in Post-9/11 New Jersey (under contract with Rutgers University Press).

Dr. Rodriguez is also a committed community advocate and has been standing up for the rights of Filipino immigrants for over 20 years. She has worked especially closely with the National Alliance for Filipino Concerns or NAFCON.

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