“Failing” and Finding a Filipina Diasporic Scholarly “Home”: A De/Colonizing Autoethnography

Abstract

In this article, I trace my childhood to doctoral-level educational experiences as a first-generation student and second-generation Filipina Canadian. I reveal my liminal position and unfixed location as a Filipina diasporic scholar, continuously searching for an intellectual or scholarly home. Here, home includes a sense of identification in different disciplines and institutions, as well as belonging to a Filipino scholarly community. I also highlight recurrent and ongoing tensions with various forms of knowledge production. I illustrate de/colonizing autoethnography as method, process, and product.