P C Lan
Biographic Data
| ID | 12036 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P C Lan |
| GIVEN NAMES | P C |
| FAMILY NAME | Lan |
| SIGNATURE | LAN P C |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Taiwan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4641-2006 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 512 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Contesting Boundaries and Navigating Identities: Second-Generation Adult Children from Cross-Border Marriages in Taiwan
Scholars who study the children of immigrants in North America and Western Europe have developed several paradigms to analyze the second generation's ethnicity. The major ones are options , capital , and boundary-making . This article contributes to this literature by exploring the emerging formation of second-generation identity in East Asia. Although the region is known for its self-perceived racial and ethnic homogeneity, an influx of marital …
The emerging second generation in Asia
Negotiating ambivalent identities in geopolitical contexts: Second-generation youth of Chinese immigrant mothers in Taiwan
Reproducing multicultural citizens: Citizenship pathways of Southeast Asian immigrant mothers in Taiwan
Geopolitical multiculturalism in East Asia
In this research note, I expand the discussion on multicultural policies in East Asia by proposing the concept of ‘geopolitical multiculturalism’. It describes that the receiving state promotes multiculturalism or pro‐immigrant programmes and discourses to enhance the nation's global standing, regional importance, economic development, and geopolitical security. East Asian countries serve as illustrative examples of this concept, as their substan…
Contested skills and constrained mobilities: Migrant carework skill regimes in Taiwan and Japan
This article compares the paradoxical conditions of migrant care workers in two major receiving countries in Asia: Taiwan's policy regime has positioned live-in care workers as "unskilled" foreigners, who nevertheless have gained increasing desirability and mobility in the labor market. By contrast, Japan has maintained the regime of skilled migration but the recent expansion of the trainee program reinforces paternalistic control over migrant ca…
The politics of sanitization: Pandemic crisis, migration and development in Asia-Pacific
COVID-19 has resulted in new anxieties about the risks and dangers involved in human mobility and forced governments to simultaneously re-engineer policies for temporary health control and longer-term border-crossing and migration policies; characterized by the sanitization of space and mobility. This special issue considers the policies, including health and non-health measures, that have impacts on migrant workers and migration. While COVID con…
Rethinking the migration-development nexus in the post-Covid-19 era
This concluding article serves as an epilogue summing up key issues about migration, labor migrants and development amid a crisis of public health. We predict the forging of an age of sanitization in which different kinds of sanitizing policies will still be in place, especially in Asia, to deal with the sporadic changes of the pandemic. Sanitization politics will continue to intersect with different policy sectors and powers, which will extend b…
Shifting borders and migrant workers’ im/mobility: The case of Taiwan during the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic intensified border control and disrupted international labor migration, but the complex consequences for migrant workers, including deepened marginalization and countervailing opportunities, have yet to receive sufficient scrutiny. Drawing on the case of Taiwan, this article examines how a host country reorganizes the multiple layers of physical and social borders for the purpose of sanitization, leading to an entanglement o…
Navigating childrearing, fatherhood, and mobilities: A transnational relational analysis
To overcome the pitfall of methodological nationalism, I propose a transnational relational analysis to examine how people raise children in multi-layered, multi-sited transnational social fields, involving the interconnection of different sorts of mobilities and immobilities. Drawing on three cases of fatherhood in the contexts of migration and transnationalism – the transnational middle class in Taiwan, Taiwanese immigrants with professional jo…
Response from Pei-Chia Lan
From Reproductive Assimilation to Neoliberal Multiculturalism: Framing and Regulating Immigrant Mothers and Children in Taiwan
Drawing on the case of Taiwan, one of the major destinations for marriage migrants in Asia, this article examines how the host state utilizes shifting discursive frames for Southeast Asian immigrants and their children to establish the regime of marital citizenship and achieve the project of nation building. I characterise the earlier regime as ‘reproductive assimilation’, which aimed to manage the potential risk that immigrant motherhood brings …
Raising Global Families: Parenting, Immigration, and Class in Taiwan and the US
Drawing on a uniquely comparative, multi-sited research model, Pei-Chia Lan examines how four groups of ethnic Chinese parents in Taiwan and the United States negotiate cultural differences and class inequality to raise children in the contexts of globalization and immigration. She finds that despite sharing a similar ethnic cultural background, these parents develop class-specific, context-sensitive strategies of childrearing to maintain their p…
Bridging Ethnic Differences for Cultural Intimacy: Production of Migrant Care Workers in Japan
Unlike other Asian host countries, Japan has been hesitant to open up the employment of migrant domestic helpers or caregivers until very recently. Focusing on the recruitment of migrant nurses and certified care workers through Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), this article examines how the host society and migrant workers negotiate care culture and ethnic differences in the production of 'ideal migrant caregivers.' The EPA program associa…
Deferential Surrogates and Professional Others: Recruitment and Training of Migrant Care Workers in Taiwan and Japan
This article compares Taiwan's guest worker program and Japan's Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) program to examine how intimate labor and affective labor are culturally defined and institutionally regulated in different ways. Facing the similar problems of population aging and care deficit, Taiwan and Japan have nevertheless adopted divergent approaches to recruiting and training migrant care workers (“deferential surrogates” vs. “professi…
Exceptional membership and liminal space of identity: Student migration from Taiwan to China
The opening of China's economy has attracted an inflow of Taiwanese migrants, including student migration for higher education. Taiwanese migrants in China have created a 'transnational social field,' which is simultaneously an exceptional space of sovereignty and a liminal terrain of identity. Based on in-depth interviews with 61 Taiwanese students in China, this article looks into the paradoxes between nationalization and globalization at the i…
Compressed modernity and glocal entanglement: The contested transformation of parenting discourses in postwar Taiwan
This article examines the contested transformation of parenting discourses in postwar Taiwan as a case of global sociology. The author argues that such transformative change embodies Taiwan's compressed condition of modernity, entangled with a variety of global forces and transnational connections. This article looks at two critical periods of discursive transformation, including a top-down project marked by US aid and the family planning program…
Direct Sales Work
White Privilege, Language Capital and Cultural Ghettoisation: Western High-Skilled Migrants in Taiwan
Drawing on the case of Taiwan, this article looks at high-skilled migration from the West to Asia. I explore how Western high-skilled migrants exert agency to negotiate their positions as non-citizens, privileged others and professional workers. I have coined the term ‘flexible cultural capital conversion’ to describe how English-speaking Westerners convert their native-language skills, as a form of global linguistic capital, into economic, socia…
Migrant Women’s Bodies as Boundary Markers: Reproductive Crisis and Sexual Control in the Ethnic Frontiers of Taiwan
New Global Politics of Reproductive Labor: Gendered Labor and Marriage Migration
The feminization of international migration nowadays has demonstrated a new global politics of reproductive labor (work necessary for the reproduction of families). This paper reviews recent studies that manifest similarity, affinity, and continuity across multiple forms of reproductive labor carried out by migrant women in four aspects. First, the recruitment of women as foreign maids or foreign brides provides class‐specific parallel strategies…
A Note on Style
Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan
Norma was born in 1967 in a small village in the Philippines.She went to college for two years, but had to drop out after the sudden death of her father.To mitigate her family's financial di≈culties, she departed for Singapore-the first time she had ever left the Philippines-to meet one of her sisters, who had been working in domestic service.Norma worked for a Singaporean family and took care of their two children for five years.During this peri…
("They Have More Money but I Speak Better English!" Transnational Encounters between Filipina Domestics and Taiwanese Employers)
This article explores how Taiwanese employers and Filipina migrant domestic workers negotiate their class locations and identities, with an emphasis on the symbolic struggles surrounding linguistic exchanges in transnational contexts. Taiwanese newly rich employers validate their middle-classhood with the consumption of migrant labor service and the investment of English tutoring for their children. Filipinas flee underpaid middle-class occupatio…
Political and Social Geography of Marginal Insiders: Migrant Domestic Workers in Taiwan
This paper looks at the incorporation and marginalization of female migrant domestic workers in Taiwan. The first part sketches the political geography of foreign workers by examining how the government regulates, marginalizes, and disciplines foreign contract workers. The second part portrays the social geography of migrant domestic workers in Taiwan by discussing how they establish multiple forms of communities and networks. I also compare Fili…
Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan
Norma was born in 1967 in a small village in the Philippines.She went to college for two years, but had to drop out after the sudden death of her father.To mitigate her family's financial di≈culties, she departed for Singapore-the first time she had ever left the Philippines-to meet one of her sisters, who had been working in domestic service.Norma worked for a Singaporean family and took care of their two children for five years.During this peri…
White Privilege, Language Capital and Cultural Ghettoisation: Western High-Skilled Migrants in Taiwan
Drawing on the case of Taiwan, this article looks at high-skilled migration from the West to Asia. I explore how Western high-skilled migrants exert agency to negotiate their positions as non-citizens, privileged others and professional workers. I have coined the term ‘flexible cultural capital conversion’ to describe how English-speaking Westerners convert their native-language skills, as a form of global linguistic capital, into economic, socia…
Negotiating Social Boundaries and Private Zones: The Micropolitics of Employing Migrant Domestic Workers
Journal Article Negotiating Social Boundaries and Private Zones: The Micropolitics of Employing Migrant Domestic Workers Get access Pei-Chia Lan Pei-Chia Lan National Taiwan University Direct correspondence to: Pei-Chia Lan, Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 106. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 50, Issue 4, 1 Novembe…
Maid Or Madam? Filipina Migrant Workers and the Continuity of Domestic Labor
This article examines the complexity of feminized domestic labor in the context of global migration. I view unpaid household labor and paid domestic work not as dichotomous categories but as structural continuities across the public and private spheres. Based on a qualitative study of Filipina migrant domestic workers in Taiwan, I demonstrate how women travel through the maid/madam boundary-housewives in home countries become breadwinners by doin…
Subcontracting Filial Piety: Elder Care in Ethnic Chinese Immigrant Families in California
Based on in-depth interviews with middle-class Taiwanese and Hong Kong immigrant families in California, the author examines how the cultural meaning and social practice of filial care for aging parents have been transformed in the U.S. context. The author analyzes the commodification of elder care from three dimensions-where care takes places, who gives care, and who pays for care-and examines its impacts on Chinese family relations. Although th…
New Global Politics of Reproductive Labor: Gendered Labor and Marriage Migration
The feminization of international migration nowadays has demonstrated a new global politics of reproductive labor (work necessary for the reproduction of families). This paper reviews recent studies that manifest similarity, affinity, and continuity across multiple forms of reproductive labor carried out by migrant women in four aspects. First, the recruitment of women as foreign maids or foreign brides provides class‐specific parallel strategies…
From Reproductive Assimilation to Neoliberal Multiculturalism: Framing and Regulating Immigrant Mothers and Children in Taiwan
Drawing on the case of Taiwan, one of the major destinations for marriage migrants in Asia, this article examines how the host state utilizes shifting discursive frames for Southeast Asian immigrants and their children to establish the regime of marital citizenship and achieve the project of nation building. I characterise the earlier regime as ‘reproductive assimilation’, which aimed to manage the potential risk that immigrant motherhood brings …
Shifting borders and migrant workers’ im/mobility: The case of Taiwan during the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic intensified border control and disrupted international labor migration, but the complex consequences for migrant workers, including deepened marginalization and countervailing opportunities, have yet to receive sufficient scrutiny. Drawing on the case of Taiwan, this article examines how a host country reorganizes the multiple layers of physical and social borders for the purpose of sanitization, leading to an entanglement o…
Deferential Surrogates and Professional Others: Recruitment and Training of Migrant Care Workers in Taiwan and Japan
This article compares Taiwan's guest worker program and Japan's Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) program to examine how intimate labor and affective labor are culturally defined and institutionally regulated in different ways. Facing the similar problems of population aging and care deficit, Taiwan and Japan have nevertheless adopted divergent approaches to recruiting and training migrant care workers (“deferential surrogates” vs. “professi…
Compressed modernity and glocal entanglement: The contested transformation of parenting discourses in postwar Taiwan
This article examines the contested transformation of parenting discourses in postwar Taiwan as a case of global sociology. The author argues that such transformative change embodies Taiwan's compressed condition of modernity, entangled with a variety of global forces and transnational connections. This article looks at two critical periods of discursive transformation, including a top-down project marked by US aid and the family planning program…
Geopolitical multiculturalism in East Asia
In this research note, I expand the discussion on multicultural policies in East Asia by proposing the concept of ‘geopolitical multiculturalism’. It describes that the receiving state promotes multiculturalism or pro‐immigrant programmes and discourses to enhance the nation's global standing, regional importance, economic development, and geopolitical security. East Asian countries serve as illustrative examples of this concept, as their substan…
Contested skills and constrained mobilities: Migrant carework skill regimes in Taiwan and Japan
This article compares the paradoxical conditions of migrant care workers in two major receiving countries in Asia: Taiwan's policy regime has positioned live-in care workers as "unskilled" foreigners, who nevertheless have gained increasing desirability and mobility in the labor market. By contrast, Japan has maintained the regime of skilled migration but the recent expansion of the trainee program reinforces paternalistic control over migrant ca…
Political and Social Geography of Marginal Insiders: Migrant Domestic Workers in Taiwan
This paper looks at the incorporation and marginalization of female migrant domestic workers in Taiwan. The first part sketches the political geography of foreign workers by examining how the government regulates, marginalizes, and disciplines foreign contract workers. The second part portrays the social geography of migrant domestic workers in Taiwan by discussing how they establish multiple forms of communities and networks. I also compare Fili…
Networking Capitalism: Network Construction and Control Effects In Direct Selling
Drawing on a qualitative study of direct selling in Taiwan, this article examines the process of network construction and its control effects over distributors. I found that weak ties, rather than strong ties, constitute major networks for distributors to expand their business. In order to consolidate trust within weak ties, distributors develop two major strategies: personalizing sales and familiarizing sponsorship. They are engaged in a multile…
Negotiating ambivalent identities in geopolitical contexts: Second-generation youth of Chinese immigrant mothers in Taiwan
The emerging second generation in Asia
The politics of sanitization: Pandemic crisis, migration and development in Asia-Pacific
COVID-19 has resulted in new anxieties about the risks and dangers involved in human mobility and forced governments to simultaneously re-engineer policies for temporary health control and longer-term border-crossing and migration policies; characterized by the sanitization of space and mobility. This special issue considers the policies, including health and non-health measures, that have impacts on migrant workers and migration. While COVID con…
Bridging Ethnic Differences for Cultural Intimacy: Production of Migrant Care Workers in Japan
Unlike other Asian host countries, Japan has been hesitant to open up the employment of migrant domestic helpers or caregivers until very recently. Focusing on the recruitment of migrant nurses and certified care workers through Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), this article examines how the host society and migrant workers negotiate care culture and ethnic differences in the production of 'ideal migrant caregivers.' The EPA program associa…
Exceptional membership and liminal space of identity: Student migration from Taiwan to China
The opening of China's economy has attracted an inflow of Taiwanese migrants, including student migration for higher education. Taiwanese migrants in China have created a 'transnational social field,' which is simultaneously an exceptional space of sovereignty and a liminal terrain of identity. Based on in-depth interviews with 61 Taiwanese students in China, this article looks into the paradoxes between nationalization and globalization at the i…
Contesting Boundaries and Navigating Identities: Second-Generation Adult Children from Cross-Border Marriages in Taiwan
Scholars who study the children of immigrants in North America and Western Europe have developed several paradigms to analyze the second generation's ethnicity. The major ones are options , capital , and boundary-making . This article contributes to this literature by exploring the emerging formation of second-generation identity in East Asia. Although the region is known for its self-perceived racial and ethnic homogeneity, an influx of marital …
Reproducing multicultural citizens: Citizenship pathways of Southeast Asian immigrant mothers in Taiwan
Navigating childrearing, fatherhood, and mobilities: A transnational relational analysis
To overcome the pitfall of methodological nationalism, I propose a transnational relational analysis to examine how people raise children in multi-layered, multi-sited transnational social fields, involving the interconnection of different sorts of mobilities and immobilities. Drawing on three cases of fatherhood in the contexts of migration and transnationalism – the transnational middle class in Taiwan, Taiwanese immigrants with professional jo…
Rethinking the migration-development nexus in the post-Covid-19 era
This concluding article serves as an epilogue summing up key issues about migration, labor migrants and development amid a crisis of public health. We predict the forging of an age of sanitization in which different kinds of sanitizing policies will still be in place, especially in Asia, to deal with the sporadic changes of the pandemic. Sanitization politics will continue to intersect with different policy sectors and powers, which will extend b…
Subcontracting Filial Piety: Elder Care in Ethnic Chinese Immigrant Families in California
Based on in-depth interviews with middle-class Taiwanese and Hong Kong immigrant families in California, the author examines how the cultural meaning and social practice of filial care for aging parents have been transformed in the U.S. context. The author analyzes the commodification of elder care from three dimensions-where care takes places, who gives care, and who pays for care-and examines its impacts on Chinese family relations. Although th…
Networking Capitalism: Network Construction and Control Effects In Direct Selling
Drawing on a qualitative study of direct selling in Taiwan, this article examines the process of network construction and its control effects over distributors. I found that weak ties, rather than strong ties, constitute major networks for distributors to expand their business. In order to consolidate trust within weak ties, distributors develop two major strategies: personalizing sales and familiarizing sponsorship. They are engaged in a multile…
("They Have More Money but I Speak Better English!" Transnational Encounters between Filipina Domestics and Taiwanese Employers)
This article explores how Taiwanese employers and Filipina migrant domestic workers negotiate their class locations and identities, with an emphasis on the symbolic struggles surrounding linguistic exchanges in transnational contexts. Taiwanese newly rich employers validate their middle-classhood with the consumption of migrant labor service and the investment of English tutoring for their children. Filipinas flee underpaid middle-class occupatio…
Political and Social Geography of Marginal Insiders: Migrant Domestic Workers in Taiwan
This paper looks at the incorporation and marginalization of female migrant domestic workers in Taiwan. The first part sketches the political geography of foreign workers by examining how the government regulates, marginalizes, and disciplines foreign contract workers. The second part portrays the social geography of migrant domestic workers in Taiwan by discussing how they establish multiple forms of communities and networks. I also compare Fili…
Negotiating Social Boundaries and Private Zones: The Micropolitics of Employing Migrant Domestic Workers
Journal Article Negotiating Social Boundaries and Private Zones: The Micropolitics of Employing Migrant Domestic Workers Get access Pei-Chia Lan Pei-Chia Lan National Taiwan University Direct correspondence to: Pei-Chia Lan, Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 106. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 50, Issue 4, 1 Novembe…
Maid Or Madam? Filipina Migrant Workers and the Continuity of Domestic Labor
This article examines the complexity of feminized domestic labor in the context of global migration. I view unpaid household labor and paid domestic work not as dichotomous categories but as structural continuities across the public and private spheres. Based on a qualitative study of Filipina migrant domestic workers in Taiwan, I demonstrate how women travel through the maid/madam boundary-housewives in home countries become breadwinners by doin…
A Note on Style
Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan
Norma was born in 1967 in a small village in the Philippines.She went to college for two years, but had to drop out after the sudden death of her father.To mitigate her family's financial di≈culties, she departed for Singapore-the first time she had ever left the Philippines-to meet one of her sisters, who had been working in domestic service.Norma worked for a Singaporean family and took care of their two children for five years.During this peri…
Migrant Women’s Bodies as Boundary Markers: Reproductive Crisis and Sexual Control in the Ethnic Frontiers of Taiwan
New Global Politics of Reproductive Labor: Gendered Labor and Marriage Migration
The feminization of international migration nowadays has demonstrated a new global politics of reproductive labor (work necessary for the reproduction of families). This paper reviews recent studies that manifest similarity, affinity, and continuity across multiple forms of reproductive labor carried out by migrant women in four aspects. First, the recruitment of women as foreign maids or foreign brides provides class‐specific parallel strategies…
White Privilege, Language Capital and Cultural Ghettoisation: Western High-Skilled Migrants in Taiwan
Drawing on the case of Taiwan, this article looks at high-skilled migration from the West to Asia. I explore how Western high-skilled migrants exert agency to negotiate their positions as non-citizens, privileged others and professional workers. I have coined the term ‘flexible cultural capital conversion’ to describe how English-speaking Westerners convert their native-language skills, as a form of global linguistic capital, into economic, socia…
Direct Sales Work
Compressed modernity and glocal entanglement: The contested transformation of parenting discourses in postwar Taiwan
This article examines the contested transformation of parenting discourses in postwar Taiwan as a case of global sociology. The author argues that such transformative change embodies Taiwan's compressed condition of modernity, entangled with a variety of global forces and transnational connections. This article looks at two critical periods of discursive transformation, including a top-down project marked by US aid and the family planning program…
Deferential Surrogates and Professional Others: Recruitment and Training of Migrant Care Workers in Taiwan and Japan
This article compares Taiwan's guest worker program and Japan's Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) program to examine how intimate labor and affective labor are culturally defined and institutionally regulated in different ways. Facing the similar problems of population aging and care deficit, Taiwan and Japan have nevertheless adopted divergent approaches to recruiting and training migrant care workers (“deferential surrogates” vs. “professi…
Exceptional membership and liminal space of identity: Student migration from Taiwan to China
The opening of China's economy has attracted an inflow of Taiwanese migrants, including student migration for higher education. Taiwanese migrants in China have created a 'transnational social field,' which is simultaneously an exceptional space of sovereignty and a liminal terrain of identity. Based on in-depth interviews with 61 Taiwanese students in China, this article looks into the paradoxes between nationalization and globalization at the i…
Raising Global Families: Parenting, Immigration, and Class in Taiwan and the US
Drawing on a uniquely comparative, multi-sited research model, Pei-Chia Lan examines how four groups of ethnic Chinese parents in Taiwan and the United States negotiate cultural differences and class inequality to raise children in the contexts of globalization and immigration. She finds that despite sharing a similar ethnic cultural background, these parents develop class-specific, context-sensitive strategies of childrearing to maintain their p…
Bridging Ethnic Differences for Cultural Intimacy: Production of Migrant Care Workers in Japan
Unlike other Asian host countries, Japan has been hesitant to open up the employment of migrant domestic helpers or caregivers until very recently. Focusing on the recruitment of migrant nurses and certified care workers through Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), this article examines how the host society and migrant workers negotiate care culture and ethnic differences in the production of 'ideal migrant caregivers.' The EPA program associa…
From Reproductive Assimilation to Neoliberal Multiculturalism: Framing and Regulating Immigrant Mothers and Children in Taiwan
Drawing on the case of Taiwan, one of the major destinations for marriage migrants in Asia, this article examines how the host state utilizes shifting discursive frames for Southeast Asian immigrants and their children to establish the regime of marital citizenship and achieve the project of nation building. I characterise the earlier regime as ‘reproductive assimilation’, which aimed to manage the potential risk that immigrant motherhood brings …
Response from Pei-Chia Lan
Contested skills and constrained mobilities: Migrant carework skill regimes in Taiwan and Japan
This article compares the paradoxical conditions of migrant care workers in two major receiving countries in Asia: Taiwan's policy regime has positioned live-in care workers as "unskilled" foreigners, who nevertheless have gained increasing desirability and mobility in the labor market. By contrast, Japan has maintained the regime of skilled migration but the recent expansion of the trainee program reinforces paternalistic control over migrant ca…
The politics of sanitization: Pandemic crisis, migration and development in Asia-Pacific
COVID-19 has resulted in new anxieties about the risks and dangers involved in human mobility and forced governments to simultaneously re-engineer policies for temporary health control and longer-term border-crossing and migration policies; characterized by the sanitization of space and mobility. This special issue considers the policies, including health and non-health measures, that have impacts on migrant workers and migration. While COVID con…
Rethinking the migration-development nexus in the post-Covid-19 era
This concluding article serves as an epilogue summing up key issues about migration, labor migrants and development amid a crisis of public health. We predict the forging of an age of sanitization in which different kinds of sanitizing policies will still be in place, especially in Asia, to deal with the sporadic changes of the pandemic. Sanitization politics will continue to intersect with different policy sectors and powers, which will extend b…
Shifting borders and migrant workers’ im/mobility: The case of Taiwan during the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic intensified border control and disrupted international labor migration, but the complex consequences for migrant workers, including deepened marginalization and countervailing opportunities, have yet to receive sufficient scrutiny. Drawing on the case of Taiwan, this article examines how a host country reorganizes the multiple layers of physical and social borders for the purpose of sanitization, leading to an entanglement o…
Navigating childrearing, fatherhood, and mobilities: A transnational relational analysis
To overcome the pitfall of methodological nationalism, I propose a transnational relational analysis to examine how people raise children in multi-layered, multi-sited transnational social fields, involving the interconnection of different sorts of mobilities and immobilities. Drawing on three cases of fatherhood in the contexts of migration and transnationalism – the transnational middle class in Taiwan, Taiwanese immigrants with professional jo…
Geopolitical multiculturalism in East Asia
In this research note, I expand the discussion on multicultural policies in East Asia by proposing the concept of ‘geopolitical multiculturalism’. It describes that the receiving state promotes multiculturalism or pro‐immigrant programmes and discourses to enhance the nation's global standing, regional importance, economic development, and geopolitical security. East Asian countries serve as illustrative examples of this concept, as their substan…
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