Alinaya Sybilla Fabros

Alinaya Fabros is a PhD candidate in Sociology studying labor globalization, political economy and transnational social reproduction. Her dissertation  examines how a transnational working class is formed and maintained across generations, with a rare comparative analysis of the Philippine state's labor emigration policy and its village-level implementation since 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 worldwide.  Prior to entering UC Berkeley, she worked as a researcher in Southeast Asia, with particular emphasis on questions of governance, democratization, development, labor and trade in the global South.