Dr. Mary Janet Arnado's research work has been presented in various conferences in Asia, North America, Europe and Australia. Dr. Arnado is known for her important research activities on Filipino women and migration, in the context of labor, marriage, and war, and in places such as Mindanao, Singapore and Germany. She received the Outstanding Young Scientist award in recognition of her exemplary works in science and technology. She employed qualitative methods to examine the experiences of oppression and agency of Filipina migrants in various circumstances of geographical movement.
Sex: Female
Education
- Virginia Tech - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology, 2002
- De La Salle University, Taft Ave., Manila, Master of Arts on Health Social Science (With Distinction), 1997
- Xavier University, Corrales Ave., Cagayan de Oro, Philippines, Bachelor of Science in Development Communication, 1991
- Xavier University, Cagayan de Oro, Philippines, Master of Arts in Sociology and Anthropology (all but thesis) , 1994
Field of Specialization
Globalization and Gendered Migration, Natural Resources, violent conflict and internal displacement, Colonialism and Filipina feminism, Sustainable Agriculture, Southern Asia (Philippines, Singapore) and Europe (Germany)
Researches
Arnado, J.M., (2009) Localizing the global and globalizing the local: Global households of Filipina transmigrant workers and Singapore employers
Reframing Singapore: Memory, Identity and Trans-Regionalism (Selected Papers from the 5th International Conference of Asian Scholars), Eds. D. Heng & S.M.K. Aljunid. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
Arnado, J.M., (2008) Women's Emancipation in the Philippines: A Legacy of Western Feminism?
Globalization and its Counter-forces in Southeast Asia, ed. Terence Chong. Singapore: Institute of Souteast Asian Studies
Arnado, Janet M., (2010) Performance across time and space: Drama in the Global Households of Filipina Transmigrant Workers
International Migration Volume 48, No. 6
Arnado, J.M., & Arnado, M.A.M., (2008) Casualties of Globalization: Natural Resources, Violent Conflict and Dispalcement in Mindanao, Philippines (Saarbrücken, Germany)
VDM Verlag
Arnado, J.M., (2003) Mistresses and Maids: Inequality Among Third World Women Wage Earners
De La Salle University Press
Arnado, J.M., & Heinrich, V., (2000) Cebuano [Visaya] für die Philippinen Wort für Wort (Cebuano [Visaya] for the Philippines: word for word)
Kauderwelsch Band 136. Bielefeld: Reise Know-How Verlag Peter Rump GmbH.
Arnado, J.M., (2007) Class and Status Mobility of Filipina Local and Transnational Domestic Workers
Asian Journal of Women's Studies Volume 13, No. 4
Arnado, J.M., & Macasaet, J.A.A., (2006) A Situationer on Reproductive Health
Makati: Asian Institute of Mangement
Arnado, J.M., (2003) Maternalism in Mistress-Maid Relations: The Philippine Experience
Journal of International Women's Studies Volume 4, No. 3
Potutan, G.E., Schnitzler, W.H., Arnado, J.M., Janubas, L.G., & Holmer, R.J., (2000) Urban agriculture in Cagayan de Oro: a favourable response of city government and NGOs
Growing Cities, Growing Food: Urban Agriculture on the Policy Agenda, eds. N. Bakker, M. Dubbeling, S. Guendel, U. Sabel-Koschella & H. Zeew
Schnitzler, W.H., Potutan, G.E., Arnado, J.M., Janubas, L.G., & Holmer, R.J., (1999) Urban Agriculture in Cagayan de Oro (Philippines)
Gate - Technology and Development Volume 2
Arnado, J.M., Holmer, R.J., & Schnitzler, W.H., (1998) Sozio-ökonomische Untersuchungen zu Produktion, Verbrauch und Vermarktung von Gemüse aus periurbanem Anbau in den Philippinen (Socio-economic investigation on production, consumption, and marketing of vegetables from peri-urban areas in the Philippines)
Mitteillung der Gesellschaft für Pflanzenbauwissenschaften Volume 11
Potutan, G.E., Janubas, L.G., Arnado, J.M., Holmer, R.J., & Schnitzler, W.H., (1997) Peri-urban Vegetable Production, Consumption and marketing in Cagayan de Oro, Philippines
Kasetsart Journal (Natural Sciences) Volume 32, No. 5
Arnado, J.M., (2013) Abandoned or Abandoning Men: Economic Stress, Gender
Relations, and Migration of Filipinas to Singapore
Economic Stress, Human Capital, and Families in Asia
Arnado, J.M., & Arnado, M.A.M., (2006) Opfer der Globalisierung: Ökonomische Interessen und Krieg in den Liguasan-Sümpfen
Südostasien Informationen Volume 1
Papers Presented
- Women's emancipation in the Philippines; A legacy of western feminism?, Workshop on Cultural Globalization in Southeast Asia, sponsored by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
- Filipina marriage migration to Germany: Online discourses on everyday life. Organized by Migration and Diaspora Group Seminar, Asia Research Institute, Singapore
- Drama in Filipina domestic workers' global households (Jointly organized by Asian Research Institute and the Asian Metacentre for Population and Sustainable Development, National University of Singapore), International Workshop on Female Labor Migration
- The declining significance of third world and western feminist distinction, 9th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women
- Armed conflict in the Philippine South: The unanticipated consequence of Christian migration since 1913, Inaugural professorial chair lecture in Population studies, De La Salle University, Manila
- Gender and Money: Case Studies from Philippine Indigenous Communities. Conference organized by the Institute for Money, Technology & Financial Inclusion, University of California, Irvine, USA
- Casualties of globalization: Economic interest, war, and displacement along Ligawasan marsh, Philippines, De La Salle University, Manila
- Mental health and coping behavior of internally displaced women in southern Philippines, British Sociological Association's Medical Sociology 36th Annual Conference, York, United Kingdom
- Filipina feminist perspective: A bifurcation between western and third world views, 36th World Congress, International Institute of Sociology, Beijing, People's Republic of China
- Feminisms, inequality and paid domestic work, Asia Pacific Sociological Association Conference, Brisbane, Australia
- Class mobility and social status in paid domestic work: Filipina local and transnational domestics, 15th World Congress of Sociology of the International Sociological Association, Brisbane, Australia
- Class Relations among Third World women: Employers and domestic helpers in the Philippines, 65th Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society
- The working conditions of domestic helpers in the Philippines, 18th Annual Research Symposium, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
Awards
- Ph.D. Scholarship and Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Virginia Tech, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, 1999-2000
- Development Project Award, Virginia Tech, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
- Ford Foundation Scholarship Award, De La Salle University
- Outstanding Young Scientist Award (Sociology), National Academy of Science and Technology, 2010
- ASIA Fellows Awards, Asian Scholarship Foundation, Bangkok, 2006
- REPUBLICA Regional Award in Social Sciences (Outstanding Research and Publication Awards), Commission on Higher Education, Philippines, 2005
- Miguel Febres Cordero Research Award, De La Salle University, 2004