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Contact: dia.flores.09@ucl.ac.uk
Primary
Supervisor: Ruth Mandel
Secondary
Supervisor: Daniel Miller
Research
Thesis Title: Debt of Gratitude, Shame, and Religion amongst Filipina Immigrants in London
My research focuses on Filipina immigrants’ lives and how they engage and disengage, adapt and readapt their interpretations of ‘traditional’ Filipino concepts of shame and debt of gratitude. This thesis also examines the singleton or lesbian status of the Filipina women and how this may implicate their longings for autonomy, their standing as a member of their household, and how they shift meanings of the concepts of debt of gratitude and shame towards their relationship with God.
Education
BSc Communications, University of Miami 2001
MA Anthropology, California State University 2006
MSc Anthropology and Development, London School of Economics 2009
Research Interests
Philippines and Sri Lanka
Transnationalism
Migration
Domestic Work and Labour
Seminars and Workshops Attended
Understanding the Migrant Experience Seminar Series--Who Tells the Story: the ‘Politics of the Migrant Voice’, Swansea University, Participant, July 2010
Visa Stories: Experiences Between Law and Migration, University of Kent, Canterbury, Presenter, October 2011
Affiliations
American Anthropological Association (AAA)
Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI)
