Anna Romina Guevarra

Anna Romina Guevarra (Photo: Anna Romina Guevarra/UIC)

Globalization has put a spotlight on the intersections of labor and migration. Anna Romina Guevarra’s research focuses on that intersection and how labor and migration regulations are changing. She has studied the mobility – or in some cases immobility – of migrant workers, the regulation of labor and the geopolitics of low-wage care employment. She is an expert in Asian American studies, the history and political economy of the Philippines, and Filipino American community formations and community-engaged research. 

Guevarra also studies the racial and gender biases in artificial intelligence, specifically for AI work performed in health care, education and the military. She has been collaborating (with Gayatri Reddy) on documenting and developing  “A People’s History of Uptown,” focusing on urban displacements and social movements in that Chicago neighborhood. Guevarra has studied the cultural and economic politics of Asian and Asian American food, as well as the global and local foodways between the Philippines and India.  

Guevarra helped launch UIC’s bachelor’s degree program in global Asian studies as its founder and director for 12 years. She also is co-founder of Dis/Placements: A People’s History of Uptown; co-PI on UIC’s AANAPISI Initiative, and co-PI on the Social Justice and Human Rights Cluster.

Media Mentions

Here Come the Robot Nurses
Boston Review