Maria Cecilia Hwang

Maria Cecilia Hwang is assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Studies and the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at McGill University.

Exit denied: women losing the right to leave in the Philippines

The global campaign against trafficking has proved more powerful than the constitution in the Philippines

By Maria Cecilia Hwang

/ 2 Nov 2021

Exit denied: women losing the right to leave in the Philippines

Hero nurses, untrustworthy domestic workers, and vilified sex workers

In times of pandemic, women migrants are facing restrictions on their mobility and the devaluation of their labor.

By Rhacel Salazar Parreñas and Maria Cecilia Hwang

/ 17 Nov 2020

Hero nurses, untrustworthy domestic workers, and vilified sex workers