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Dr Kris Hyesoo Lee commenced her appointment as Research Fellow with the Asian Migration Cluster with effect from 7 November 2022.

She has a DPhil in Human Geography from University of Oxford. She is a sociologist and human geographer interested in three areas of international mobilities and migration: 1) transnationalism; 2) inward and outward mobilities in Asia; and 3) critical approaches to migration. At ARI, she will work on the Belt and Road Initiative and Student-Mobilities in China-Southeast Asia (BRISM) project to better understand how China is (re)shaping the knowledge spaces and circuits of educational mobility in Southeast Asia.