Emma Porio, Ph.D.
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Dr. Emma Porio completed her doctorate in Sociology at the University of Hawaii (UH, Honolulu) on an East-West Center Fellowship grant. While at the University of Hawaii, she taught sociology and gender studies courses at the Department of Sociology and Women's Studies Program. Upon her return to the Philippines in 1989, she taught at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology while doing research at the Institute of Philippine Culture where she initiated two programs: Urban Poor Studies and Coastal Resource Management. She was chairperson of the department from 1999-2001. Under her leadership, the department was chosen by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) as a Center of Excellence for Sociology.
From 1994-97, she coordinated the Global Urban Research Initiative (GURI) for Southeast Asia, a research consortium from 12 subregions, coordinated by the University of Toronto's Center for Urban and Community Studies (CUCS). Under this program, she conducted research in Southeast Asia on urban governance, housing and settlements. Her current research projects include governance and transformation of local power structures (with the Innovations Program in Local Governance, Ash Institute, Harvard) and democratized decentralization, social justice and gender (with the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex).
Her publications include Urban Governance and Poverty Alleviation in Southeast Asia (1997), Partnership with the Poor (1991), Pathways to Decentralization (1992) and Children in Drugs in the Philippines (2005).
Currently, she chairs the Governing Council of the Philippine Social Science Council (PSSC), policy-making body of the social science associations in the country. From 1989-1992, she served as the sociology representative to the PSSC Executive Board. while she served as President of the Philippine Sociological Society from 1999-2001.
Dr. Porio also sits on the editorial board of the following social science journals: Social Movements (London), Contemporary Politics (Cambridge), Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Routledge) and Pondicherry Journal (India).
She also sits on the executive/advisory board of the following international bodies: International Forum of Researchers on Human Settlements (Rome), International Cooperative Housing Board (Washington, DC), Water Supply and Sanitation Council (Rome), Huairou Commission (New York).
She is actively involved in the ff. bodies: Ateneo Library of Women's Writings (Chairperson, 1995-2002; board member 2002-present), the Ateneo Language Learning Center/ALLC (Chairman, 2003-present), Galing Pook Foundation (corporate secretary), National Selection Committee of the Excellence in Local Governance Awards (1995-present), Women';s Development, Productivity, Research Organization (Board of Trustees, 1999-2005), CHED Technical Committees (Chair for Sociology-Anthropology; Interdisciplinary Studies) and the National Research Council of the Philippines (Chair, Anthropology and Linguistics Section).
Development studies, urban structures, environment and climate change adaptation, social problems, governance and gender issues
Curriculum
Sociology, University of Hawaii
Selected Publications:
- Security of Tenure, Property Rights, and the Urban Poor, Habitat International (Elsevier Publishers, Netherlands), 2004
- Social Housing Finance in the Philippines, International Institute of Environment and Development (London), 2004.
- The Community Mortgage Programme: An Innovative Social Housing Programme in the Philippines and Its Outcomes in Empowering Squatter Citizen: Local Government, Civil Society and Poverty Reduction (London: Earthscan Publications), 2004.
- Reexamining the Enabling Strategy: State-Civil Society Dynamics in Social Housing in Southeast Asia in Governance on the Ground, R. Stren and P. McCarney (eds), Woodrow Wilson Press, Washington, D.C. 2003.
- Urban Poor Communities in State-Civil Society Dynamics: Constraints and Possibilities for Security of Tenure in Metro Manila in Asian Social Science Journal, vol. 30, no. 1, 2002.
- Civil Society and Democratization in Asia in New Challenges for Development and Modernization, Yeu-man Yeung (ed.), The Chinese University Press, 2002.
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Working Children in Drugs in the Philippines: A Rapid Assessment. ILO-Bangkok, 2001.
Urban Governance, Poverty and Social Housing in Southeast Asia. Toronto: Center for Urban and Community Studies, 2000.
- Gender, Power and Social Change in Philippine Communities. Tokyo: Foundation for Study in International Development, 1999.
- Child Abuse and the Courts: A Sociological Perspective in Human Rights Treatise on Children. Makati, Metro Manila: Ateneo Human Rights Center, Ateneo de Manila University, 1999.
- Socio-Cultural Bases of Trafficking in Women to Belgium and Europe. Ateneo Human Rights Center, 1999.
- The Socio-Cultural and Political-Economic Bases of Trafficking in Women to Japan. International Organization for Migration, 1997.
- Urban Governance and Socialized Housing in Southeast Asia, Forum of Researchers in Human Settlements, CERFE Publications (Rome, Italy), 1999.
- Urban Governance and Poverty Alleviation in Southeast Asia, Center for Social Policy and Public Affairs, Quezon City, 1997.
- Children in Rapidly Urbanizing Contexts in Philippine Sociological Review, 1996.
- Urban Governance in Southeast Asia: Implications for Habitat II in Urban Governance and Human Settlements, P. McCarney (ed.), University of Toronto, 1996.
- Community-Based Resource Mobilization Initiatives in the Philippines in B. Taylor (ed.) Radical Environmental Movements, State of University of New York Press, 1995.
- Women and Work, Chapter 6, Philippine Country Report for the 1995 Beijing Conference on Women, 1995.
- Philippines: Urban Communities and their Families Fight for their Survival (with L. Moselina and A. Swift) in Urban Children in Distress, UNICEF/Gordon and Breach Publishers, 1994.
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Pathways to Decentralization (with C. Umali, Jr., et. al.), National Economic and Development Authority, Pasig, MetroManila: Local Resource Management Project Monitoring Unit.
Partnership with the Poor, National Economic and Development Authority, April 1990, Quezon City, Twin A Publications.
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Development for Whom? in Intersect, August 1990.
Gender, Race, Family/Household and Class Formation: The Case of Asian-Americans in Hawaii in Political and Economic Weekly, April 1989. New Delhi, India.
The Political Economy of Education Reforms, in Education and Society, Washington, D.C.
The Filipino Family, Community and Nation. A monograph published by the Institute of Philippine Culture, Ateneo de Manila University, 1979.
- Survey on National Development, Philippine Social Science Council Newsletter, vol. 1 & 2, 1978.
- Housing Aspirations of Low-Income Families in Development Digest, National Economic Development Authority, 1978.