Jointly organised by the Migration Clusters of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), and Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University of Singapore (NUS).
CHAIRPERSON
Dr Elaine Ho, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore.
ABSTRACT
Research on transnational emotions emphasises the notion of migrants’ ‘home’, due to its centrality in identity construction. This paper will chart how notions of home, a sense of identity, and social spaces are shaped through increased mobility and transnationalism among highly-educated and skilled PRC migrants. An analysis based on empirical data collected from in-depth interviews will be presented of the emotional spaces of home and belonging of migrants from the PRC, drawing on theories of ‘emotional transnationalism’, ‘critical geographies of home’, and ‘translocal geographies’.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Liangni Sally Liu has been working as a Post-doctoral Research fellow in the Research Office, Auckland University of Technology since she completed her PhD in the School of Asian Studies, University of Auckland, New Zealand in 2011, majoring in Asian Studies and Chinese. During her PhD years, she received a University of Auckland Doctoral Scholarship and several other research awards. Before her PhD study, she gained both of her Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and Master of Arts degrees with 1st class honours from the University of Auckland. Her research interest for the last six years has been largely in the areas of migrant transnationalism, especially Chinese migratory transnationalism. She also has broader research interests in issues that relate to ethnic relations between migrants and mainstream/or indigenous people, and the media influence on ethnic relations. She has published a number of book chapters and research articles in peer-reviewed journals.
REGISTRATION
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