Ethel Tungohan

(she/her)
  • Associate Professor in Politics, Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Canadian Migration Policy, Impacts and Activism, York University, Canada

Ethel Tungohan is the Canada Research Chair in Canadian Migration Policy, Impacts and Activism, and an Associate Professor of Politics at York University. She has also been appointed as a Broadbent Institute Fellow. She received her doctoral degree in Political Science and Women and Gender Studies from the University of Toronto. Her research looks at migrant labor, specifically assessing migrant activism. She is the author and editor of numerous books, including "Knowledge, Power and Migration: Contesting the North/South Divide" (co-editor, McGill-Queens University Press, 2025) and "Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Communities of Care and Movement-Building" (University of Illinois Press, 2023).

Experience

  • 2021–present
    Associate professor and Canada Research Chair, York University

Education

  • 2013 
    University of Toronto, PhD Political Science

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