Articulating Filipinx Canadian Studies In, On, and Through British Columbia

Authors

  • JP Catungal
  • May Farrales

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.no227.201697

Keywords:

Filipinx, Indigeneity, transnationalism, Filipinos, diaspora, decolonization

Abstract

Introduction to the special issue. 

Author Biographies

JP Catungal

John Paul (JP) Catungal is an assistant professor in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice and Co-Director of the Centre for Asian Canadian Research and Engagement at the University of British Columbia. An interdisciplinary scholar trained in the nexus of intersectional feminist studies, queer of colour theorizing, and critical human geography, his research examines community organizing by LGBTQ+, migrant and racialized communities as practices of knowledge production and placemaking. He co-edited Filipinos in Canada: Disturbing Invisibility (University of Toronto Press, 2012).

May Farrales

May Farrales is an assistant professor in the departments of Geography and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University on the unceded territory of the səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), q̓íc̓əy̓ (Katzie), kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem), Qayqayt, Kwantlen, Semiahmoo and Tsawwassen peoples.

Photo taken at the UBC vigil featuring bouquets of flowers, a small Philippine flag, and a candle.

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Published

20-01-2026

Issue

No. 227 (2025): Filipino Canadian Studies In, On, and Through British Columbia (Autumn)

Section

Introduction