Verna Dinah Q. Viajar, PhD is Assistant Professor 5, and College Secretary (Jan 2024-July 2026), of the UP School of Labor and Industrial Relations (UP SOLAIR), Diliman Quezon City. She completed her Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science in UP Diliman and completed her Masters on Labor Policies and Globalization at the University of Kassel Germany and the Berlin School of Economics and Law in Germany. She obtained her PhD degree from the University of Osnabrueck Germany supported by the International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD) based in University of Kassel, Germany. She previously worked as Project Manager of the International Labour Organization Manila Country Office on 2017-2019. As a scholar activist, she was granted a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Berlin Germany in 2020-2022. Her research and academic interests include labour and migration studies, trade union and social movements, Gender at Work, Labour policy-making and public administration, political economy, democratization and Southeast Asia politics and government. She has published her thesis dissertation, “Dimensions of Precarity: Spaces, Constraints and Tensions in Organizing Migrant Domestic Workers in Malaysia”, end of 2023.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS & BOOK CHAPTERS

• Viajar, Verna Dinah Q. 2023. Dimensions of Precarity: Spaces, Constraints, and Tensions in Organizing Migrant Domestic Workers in Malaysia. ICDD Labor and Globalization Book Series, edited by Christoph Scherrer. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG. 

• Viajar, Verna Dinah Q. 2022. “Duterte, Covid-19 and Populist-Authoritarianism in the Philippines: Contentions and Contradictions.” In Lessons Learned from Covid-19: Transforming a Global Crisis to Global Solidarity. Manila: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung–Southeast Asia Regional Office. 

• Viajar, Verna Dinah Q. 2022. “Contentions and Contradictions: The Rise of Duterte’s Authoritarianism with Fascist Tendencies Amidst the Hegemonic Crisis of (Neo)Liberal Democracy in the Philippines.” In Global Authoritarianism: Perspectives from the South, 261–280. Berlin: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung 

• Viajar, Verna Dinah Q. 2022. “Populist-Authoritarianism in the Philippines: Contentions, Contradictions and Hegemonic Crisis.” In Labour Organizing under Authoritarian Regimes, edited by C. Ceruti and C. Scherrer, 15–20. Labor and Globalization, vol. 26. Baden-Baden: Nomos. 

• Namukasa, A., H. Sinaga, Verna Dinah Q. Viajar, and V. Viajar. 2021. “Gendered Dimensions of the Corona Pandemic.” In Decent Work or Decent Income? ‘Corona Crisis’ Experience, edited by P. Duarte and L. Farres, 261–284. Labor and Globalization Book Series. Baden-Baden: Nomos. 

ARTICLES & REPORTS

• Viajar, Verna Dinah Q. 2023. “The Thorny Road to Freedom (of Association): A Dispatch from the Philippines.” Asian Labour Review. 

• Viajar, Verna Dinah Q. 2022. Beyond Authoritarianism: Counterstrategies and Way to Freedom. Berlin: International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counterstrategies (IRGAC), Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung 

• Serrano, M., and Verna Dinah Q. Viajar. 2022. Transformative Strategies for Gender Equality in Trade Unions: A Handbook. Kathmandu: Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung Nepal.  

• Viajar, Verna Dinah Q. 2022. “Covid-19 and Populist-Authoritarianism in the Philippines: Contentions and Contradictions.” Global Labour Column, March 2022. 

• Viajar, Verna Dinah Q. 2022. “Indonesian Workers’ Resistance to Suharto’s Regime.” Global Dialogue Magazine of the International Sociological Association
  
  

• Viajar, Verna Dinah Q. 2022. “Gig Delivery Riders: Workers or Independent Contractors?” Labor Education and Research Network.
  
  

• Viajar, Verna Dinah Q. 2021. Unravelling Duterte’s Iron Hand in the Time of Covid-19. Berlin: International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counterstrategies (IRGAC), Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.