Alinaya Fabros is a PhD candidate in Sociology studying labor globalization, political economy, and transnational social reproduction. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and MA in Sociology from the University of the Philippines and UC Berkeley. Her dissertation is a comparative study of two longtime migrant labor regimes that developed in neighboring Philippine villages following the 1974 New Labor Code, the law often cited for producing the most globalized labor force on the planet and generating the emigration governance model currently replicated in developing countries today. Prior to entering UC Berkeley, she worked as a researcher in Southeast Asia. Her first book, Outsourceable Selves (2016), is an ethnography of transnational service work based on participant observation in call centers that have moved from the US to India and on to the Philippines.
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