Dr Earvin Charles B. Cabalquinto is an Australian Research Council DECRA Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University. He is also an Honorary Visiting Fellow (2023 - 2026) in the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University. He is also a Research Associate of the Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care (CoE AgeCare) at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland.

He is an affiliate member of the Monash Migration and Inclusion Centre. He is a co-convenor of the Migration and Mobilities Research Network (MMRN). He is also a Research Associate in the Emerging Technologies Research Lab.

He was a Visiting Research Fellow in the Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care (CoE AgeCare) at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland in 2021. He was a Visiting Scholar in the Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe) at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom in 2019. In 2024, he was a Global Exchange Fellow in the Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Migration and Integration, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. In 2025, he was a Visiting Fellow in the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore.

He has held leadership roles across various scholarly organisations. He sits in the editorial board of a peer-reviewed and international academic journals, including the International Journal of Cultural Studies,  Convergence, and the Journal of Global Ageing. He was the Book Review Editor (2023-2025) of Mobile Media & Communication. 

His research expertise lies at the intersections of digital media, (im)mobilities and migration. More specifically, he is interested in examining the role of mobile devices and networked communication platforms in engendering and undermining transnational relationships, mediated intimacies, caregiving at a distance, crisis communication, and homeland linkages. His research agenda is driven by critically exploring the dynamics and impacts of digital inclusion and exclusion among migrants and their networks who navigate an increasingly digital and global society. 

His research has been published in top peer-reviewed journals, including Mobile Media & Communication, Media Culture & Society, International Journal of Communication, Convergence, Information Communication & Society, and ​Communication, Culture and Critique, International Migration Review as well as in specialised and notable edited book collections published by leading commercial and university presses across the world.

His first sole-authored book, "(Im)mobile Homes: Family Life at a Distance in the Age of Mobile Media", was published under the Studies in Mobile Communication series of Oxford University Press (OUP). His book has created impact beyond the academic community. Jasmin Werner, a Filipina German artist, has created a series of exhibitions based on Dr Cabalquinto's book. The exhibitions: Remote Control (2024) and Caught in the Landslide (2025). He is also the author of a collaborative book "Philippine Digital Cultures: Brokerage Dynamics on YouTube", published under the Asian Visual Cultures series of Amsterdam University Press.

Dr Cabalquinto is a reviewer of project proposals submitted to the Australian Research Council (ARC), The Dutch Research Council (NWO), and The European Research Council (ERC). He also reviewed book proposal submitted to Intellect Books, Routledge, New York University Press, University of Illinois Press, and Palgrave. 

Dr Cabalquinto's impactful research is reflected across a range of national and international speaking engagements.  He has been invited as a keynote and plenary speaker in conferences in Australia and beyond. In 2025, he was invited as key speaker in the panel on panel Digital Literacy and Design as part of the University Partners Summit held at Beihang University, Hangzhou, China. In Australia, he has been invited to speak in events organised by the Australian Filipino Community Services as well as the Federation of Ethnic Communities' Council of Australia.

He is an engaged scholar working with migrants, their networks and stakeholders and organisations for migrants. He has a longstanding working relationship with organisations for migrants, paving the way for presentations in forums, co-presentations, and co-design workshops. One example is working on the "Apat ay Sapat (four is sufficient)", a co-designed and online campaign to promote COVID-19 vaccination among older Filipino-Australians. Check out the feature of this campaign on SBS.

Dr Cabalquinto is open to supervise PhD projects under the Monash Doctoral Program:

PhD (Arts) and PhD (Arts - practice-based)

I have expertise to supervise on the following topics:

1. Digitalisation of migration
2. Transnational family life
3. Ageing migrants and their digital practices
4. The digitalisation of migration brokerage
5. Digital ageism in a migration context
6. The digital lives of temporary migrants – skilled workers and international students
7. Digital care at a distance
8. Diasporic/ Migrant Influencers/Content Creators
9. Emerging technologies in the migrant's personal home
10. Gendered dimension of digital migration
11. Digital intimacy beyond borders
12. The mediation of interracial relationships
13. The digital divide in a migration and global context
14. Digital threats in migration - scams, online fraud, misinformation, etc.

He specialises in a range of methods, including multi-sited ethography, visual ethnography (photo documentation and elicitation), visual method of recorded demonstration, mapping of social networks, content and textual analysis, digital ethnography, and surveys.

He is working on the following projects:

(1) His ARC DECRA project explores the digital divide in a transnational and digital context. More specifically, he centres the ageing migrant's home as a critical site to examine the production and negotiation of digital exclusion in a rapidly changing global and networked world. His work deploys multi-sited and visual ethnography to identify digital inequalities in a migration context and utilise insights into fostering culturally tailored digital inclusion interventions. Overall, the project is design to interrogate digital inclusion and exclusion as experienced and navigated by (im)mobile subjects in an increasingly digitised world.

Access the project website to stay updated with the project's progress and outputs.

(2) Interrogating the roots and causes of digital inclusion in the context of migration brokering, he is currently examining the ways interconnected migration social actors use modern communication technologies, online channels and mobile applications to inform, reproduce and manufacture aspirations and experiences of mobility, settlement and displacement among migrants in Australia. This work draws on his published works on on digital brokering, migrant content creation and precarious global labour as shaped by a neoliberal and postcolonial systems and conditions. The project is funded through the 2023 Special Project Fund in the School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University. It also received the SEED Funding Scheme (2024), Faculty of Arts, Monash University. To date, Dr Cabalquinto has further developed the project by collaborating with internationally renowned scholars, including Professor Ly Tran, Dr George Tan, Dr Luzhou Li, and Associate Professor Zala Volcic. You can read the op-ed on problematising migration brokering in a digital age. The collaboration has been funded through the Faculty of Arts Emerging Strength Seed grant (2025).

(3) He is working on the first Handbook of Filipino Diaspora with Dr Kristine Aquino of University Technology Sydney and Associate Professor Valerie Francisco-Mechavez of San Francisco State University. The book pools together scholars examining the Filipino diasporic experiences in a range of contexts. It is under contract as part of the Asian Migration series of Routledge. 

Dr Cabalquinto is a collaborator for Translocal lives, a collaborative space for critically engaging with the crucial role of technologies in shaping migration. He also collaborates with researchers in DigiMig, advocating for digital inclusion in an increasingly migrant society.

As co-convenor of the Migration and Mobility Research Network (MMRN), he co-organised "Researching Migration Studies: A Symposium on Methodologies" (2025), funded by the The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) as part of oth Sociology of Migration, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism Thematic Group.

Feel free to connect for possible engagements and collaborations.