He received his Ph.D. in Geography at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is an interdisciplinary geographer and critical demographer, with interests in urbanization, migration, GIS, counter-mapping, spatial statistics, and socio spatial theory. His research interrogates how neoliberal urbanism in the Philippines has facilitated a new round of property accumulation, the emergence of new middle class subjectivities, and the displacement of the poor. His recent projects have examined the rise of transnational suburbs and precarious suburbanisms in the Philippines and the role of alternative transnational economies in peri-urban developments.