Experts Database

Jocelyn O. Celero is currently Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Japan Studies Program at the Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman. She teaches courses on Japanese society, culture, politics and economy. She obtained her PhD in International Studies at Waseda University, Japan in 2016. She has published on migration and transnationality of Filipino migrants and Japanese-Filipinos. Since 2019, she has served as Research Fellow/Focal Person for UP-CIFAL Philippines.

I am a researcher whose work lies at the cross section of gender,
migration and diasporic studies from a postcolonial feminist perspective. I am Principle
Investigator of a five-year Irish Research Council project on migrant South Asian women’s
experience of accessing support services in Ireland. I am specifically interested in looking at
how ideas around gender, masculinities, and caste migrate transnationally and how it effects
migrant women of colour in Europe. I have actively sought to collaborate with civil society
partners outside academia, narrowly defined, in the co-production of knowledge and the
communication of research findings for societal impact My work has been published and
accepted for publication in leading international peer-reviewed publications including
International Feminist Journal of Politics, Economic and Political Weekly, Religion and
Gender, Routledge, and Cambridge University Press. Since finishing my PhD in 2019, I have
led three research projects worth more than €500,000 funded by the Irish Research Council,
and Ireland India Institute, and collaborated on international research projects with colleagues
at Goldsmiths, University of London, Tampere University, Lucerne University, ActionAid
Ireland, ActionAid Nepal. As a Postdoctoral Fellow in Dublin City University’s School of Law
and Government, I have created and taught modules on postcolonial politics, gender studies
and masculinity studies to DCU’s undergraduate and postgraduate students. In my former role
as an Editor, I have been in charge of the production of 13 top rated academic journals from
Sage Publications.

Ching-An Chang is an associate professor from the Department of Arabic Language and Culture at the National Chengchi University in Taiwan (R.O.C.). His research interests include 1) Middle East studies (with a special focus on the Levant), 2) refugee, migration, and diaspora in the Middle East, and 3) transnationalism. His work has appeared in International Migration, Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, Social Inclusion, and Insight Turkey.

Chantanee Charoensri is a sociologist of migration. She is currently the dean of the faculty of Sociology and Anthropology at Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand. Her research includes: Thai Daughters, English Wives: A Critical Ethnography of Transnational Lives; Virtual Mobility among Highly Skilled Migrants in Thailand: Mobility movement and virtual mobility; From Migration Studies to Mobility Paradigm: An Evaluation of Frameworks Suitable for a Study of Highly Skilled Migration. She is a project leader for Thai-Norwegian couples in Thailand. Impact of transnational welfare and migration policy on return migration, which is a part of ThaiMig Project funded by Vid Specialized University's excellence in research. She is also a member of a research group : Transnational Intimacy and Migration Process (find out about the cluster here: https://transnationalintim.wixsite.com/website-3/team). Previously, she was a co-researcher for the Thai Entrepreneurs in the UK (Newton Fund).

My scholarship interrogates the significance of social categories as they mediate myriad opportunities and constraints in the everyday lives of immigrants and ethnoracial minorities. I utilize diverse methodologies, data sources, and theoretical perspectives to investigate how ascriptive social categories (race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, etc.) and their corresponding symbolic boundaries are activated, reinforced, and contested within organizations, politics, and popular culture, among others. My current research program consists of three streams: 1) immigrant organizations, 2) immigrant politics and civic participation, and 3) the sociology of music.

I am a doctoral researcher in Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. Broadly, I am interested in the politics of migration in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). More specifically, I am interested in understanding how national governments across LAC manage different forms of migration (immigration, in-transit migration, forced migration, and return migration), what factors shape their management strategies, what explains variation across national governments in the region, and how such management strategies shape the lives of migrant communities. I address such questions by employing qualitative methods.

Lin Chen is a PhD candidate in Social Sciences at KU Leuven, Department of Political Science, at the research group of Leuven International and European Studies, and jointly in Sociology at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, at the research group of Interface Demography. She holds previous degrees as Master of Arts in Sociology at Columbia University, Masters of Arts in Economics in Boston University, and Master of Arts at Scoical Sciences in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Her doctoral research topic is research project focuses on the South-to-South student mobility from Africa to China, which aims to investigate “How Do Migration Networks Facilitate African Student Mobility and Integration In China? - A Social Network Perspective on South-to-South Migration”.

I am a PhD researcher at the Laboratory of Anthropology of Contemporary Worlds (LAMC), Institute of Sociology, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium. I am researching ethnoracial power dynamixs in postcolonial DR Coongo through the case of Sino-Congolese intimate relationships. My previous work focused on Chinese gay student migration in France.