School of Languages and Area Studies (SLAS)

Profile

Qualifications

• PhD, Department of Politics and International Studies, School of Oriental and Africa Studies, University of London
• BA, MA, National Taiwan University

Research Clusters

• International Development Studies
• Women and Gender Studies Cluster
• Cross-University Gender Group

Discipline Areas

• Marriage Migration
• East Asian Migration
• Citizenship
• National Identity
• Multiculturalism
• Gender
• Taiwan Studies
• Overseas Chinese Studies
• Women’s political participation

Research CV

Current Research Projects

Currently I am working on the following drafts, the topics of which are parts of my doctoral thesis entitled ‘The Becoming of Immigrant from Outsiders to In-Betweens: The National Identity of Immigrant Women in Taiwan’.

• Resistance and Participation: Immigrant Women’s Political Participation in Taiwan. Underlining immigrant women’s often overlooked legal status as citizen, this paper will examine how citizenship is exercised in their everyday life in the private family domain as well as public sphere.
• Which Team Do You Support? Situating Immigrant Women’s In-Between Identity. Arguing that immigrant women develop an in-between identity whereby they express personal bonding with both the natal and residing countries, this paper will examine international sports events as an occasion for experiencing the in-between identity.

Authored Books

• I am in the process of transforming my doctoral thesis into a book proposal. 

Journal Articles

• Forthcoming 2013 ‘Making Foreign Women the Mother of Our Nation: Excluding and Assimilating Immigrant Wives from Outside’, Asian Ethnicity. 

Book Chapters

• with Dr. Dafydd Fell, ‘‘Testing the Market Oriented Model of Political Parties in a Non-Western Context’, in Rudd, C., Stromback, J. and Lees-Marshment, J. eds., Global Political Marketing. London: Routledge (2009).
• ‘Home-Going or Home-Making? The Citizenship Legislation and Chinese Identity of Indonesian Chinese Women in Taiwan’, in Dafydd Fell, Chiu Kuei-fen, Lin Ping, eds., Migration to and from Taiwan. London: Routledge (early 2013).

Grants Received

I received funding to conduct a post-doctoral research from 2012-2013 on migration in East Asia with a reference to marriage migration of ethnic Chinese women from Southeast Asia to East Asia at College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technology University, Singapore. I declined the funding in order to take up my post at Portsmouth.