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Tongming is a PhD student in sociology and social policy within the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Southampton. Her research interests are in diversity and interdisciplinary. She currently focuses on rural-urban migration, return migration, labour migration and rural tourism. She does research in both qualitative and quantitative analysis.

Experienced researcher with expertise in the fields of East Asian communities in Europe, education, happiness and multilingualism. I have extensive fieldwork experience in Germany and Japan, as well as mixed method data collection, management and analysis. My works are fully funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG Individual Research Grant, 2018-2021) and the European Commission (Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, 2021-2023).

Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at Syracuse University, NY-USA.
Studying Chinese emigration and investment in West Africa.

Wanyana has over 10 years of progressively relevant experience in policy analysis and research in the areas of gender, peace, and international security law and policy. Wanyana's Migration research has analysed the complex relationship between migration and corruption, highlighting how corruption intersects with other factors such as race, religion, and economic status to shape the differential experiences of migrant women and men. She has also studied the limitations in European and International migration legal regimes in providing robust and non-discriminatory protections for migrants.

I am a researcher in the Child Health and Parenting (CHAP) research group at Uppsala University currently managing an evaluation of Teaching Recovery Techniques - a community group therapy intervention for refugee children, youth and families reporting symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.