Jia Tolentino and the Anatomy of American Injustice

Around the time I was born, my grandmother founded an agency placing nurses from the Philippines in U.S. hospitals that were experiencing a skilled labor shortage. (This is an extremely common migration pattern for Filipinos — I recommend Jason DeParle’s “A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves,” on the subject! — with about eleven percent of the Philippines’ total population working overseas.) Soon after, she and a business partner began placing Filipino teachers in U.S. schools, too. When my family moved down to Houston from Toronto in 1993, my dad joined the company, which continued to bring nurses and teachers over through a lawful process, typical of the many recruitment agencies of this kind. Specifically, on the side of the teacher program, the company sponsored school district personnel to travel to the Philippines and meet with qualified teachers who they might be interested in hiring; <a href="https://freopp.org/jia-tolentino-and-the-anatomy-of-american-injustice-d3fb09637b8">Read More</a>