Janet M. Arnado is a full-time professor and former chair of the Department of Sociology and Behavioral Sciences at De La Salle University, Manila. She held an ASIA fellowship at the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore. For her research on women and migration, she received the 2010 Outstanding Young Scientist Award in the field of Sociology, given by the National Academy of Science and Technology. Janet studies social inequalities and mobilities among the marginalized, as well as the various topics in education, migration, work, urban agriculture, health, spirituality, and evaluation. She is the author of three books and several journal articles and book chapters. Her research appears in Current Sociology, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, International Migration, International Journal of Sociology of Education, Asian Journal of Women Studies, and Journal of International Women Studies, among others. Janet obtained her doctorate in Sociology from Virginia Tech.