Her first book entitled, The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age, explores the dynamics of gender and technology of care work and intimacy in Filipino transnational families in the Philippines and the U.S. Through an examination of neoliberal immigration policies and market forces, Francisco contextualizes the shifts in the long-standing transnational family formation in the Philippines. The Labor of Care won an Honorable Mention in the 2020 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award competition for Outstanding Achievement in the Social Sciences. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at City University of New York, The Graduate Center. Dr. Francisco’s research program includes a transnational study of Filipino migrant mothers in New York City and their families left behind in Manila and participatory action research with Filipino immigrants working as caregivers in the U.S. Her academic work has been published in journals such as Critical Sociology, Working USA, The Philippine Sociological Review, Action Research and Alon: Journal of Filipinx Studies. Dr. Francisco also writes on the transnational activism that emerges from the social conditions of migration, separation and migrant labor. She won the Best Article Award for her article, “Save Mary Jane Veloso: Building Solidarity and Global Migrant Activism in the Filipino Labor Diaspora” in 2018 awarded by the Filipino Studies section in the Association of Asian American Studies.