• Royce Fellowship
Mae-Richelle
Verano

Concentration 

Public Health; Ethnic Studies

Award Year 

2015
An Analysis of the Mental Health of the Manong Generation; Filipino Immigrants During the 1920’s–1940’s

Faculty Sponsor: Don Operario

During the American occupation of the Philippines, thousands of Filipinos immigrated to the US to work as laborers and factory workers. Many of their experiences of loneliness and alienation would today be characterized as signs of deteriorating mental health. Mae will examine the current literature of mental health diagnosis and apply that to a select number of stories of Filipino US nationals. Mae hopes to better understand the relationship between the development of mental illness and the experience of assimilation and acculturation.