My research engages with community-based, intersectional, and anti-colonial/imperial praxis to examine the relationships between migrant status, migrant labor, care, and the experiences of racialized, gendered, and queer bodies. I am particularly interested and involved in migrant labor and welfare movements, and grassroots activism to-and-from the Philippines. My current explorations look at the intimate connections between discard/waste studies and migrant care workers.