Caught in the in-between
THESIS PROJECT
The Seen and Unseen Forms of Care Among Filipino/FIlipino-American Immigrants Navigating Built and Imagined Spaces
ROLE
I led the concept, research, layout, photography, and illustration for my cumulative thesis project for my 2-year Interdisciplinary Studies program at UC Berkeley
TOPIC
My undergraduate thesis explored the "unseen" forms of care given and received by Filipino-Americans healthcare volunteers to make visible the power asymmetries involved in the care-giving and care-receiving processes within built healthcare spaces like the hospital, medical mission site, and community health center.
PURPOSE
The intent of my thesis was to make visible the intangible, identity-forming aspects of care among Filipino-American healthcare volunteers, a historically-marginalized group in the United States, and one that has close ties to the US healthcare industry with the professionalization of nursing and migration of Filipino nurses to the United States in the 20th century.
DELIVERABLES
Published thesis:
“Caught in the In-between: The Seen and Unseen Forms of Care Among Filipino and Filipino-American Immigrants Navigating Built and Imagined Spaces” in the Spring 2021 issue of the Berkeley Undergraduate Journal.
Digital diary:
To transpose my academic research into a more accessible form, I created an Instagram account that aimed to be a digitized co-production of the narratives of home, memory, in-betweenness, and mother tongue in spaces of care.
01 GATHERING
02 SYNTHESIS
03 TRANSLATION
04 PRAXIS
