New Cover for my New Book

It’s been a long time since I posted anything on this blog but this news deserves a post – I have the cover for my new book!

Multinational Maids – Book Award

I just received word that my book Multinational Maids: Stepwise Migration in a Global Labor Market  was selected for the 2018 Thomas and Zaniecki Best Book Award from the American Sociological Association’s International Migration Section. I couldn’t be more pleased!! Now I’m pumped to finish my second book project on Asian scientist migration!

Global Studies Award for Article

An article I wrote with my student, Victoria Long, received the The Global Studies Journal’s annual award. I’m so pleased that it was recognized by peers within the global studies as offering something new to the conversation about scientist mobility and Asian science. This is what I wrote about the article – “Where to Train:…

My Book Cover!

My new book with Cambridge University Press, Multinational Maids: Stepwise Migration in a Global Labor Market, is due out in November 2017 and now I have a book cover to show off!

Book Contract

Last month, I signed a contract to publish my book manuscript Multinational Maids with Cambridge University Press with an expected publication date of late summer 2017. I’m incredibly excited by this development but now I’m also feeling the pressure to finish the full manuscript by the end of this year.

New Book Chapter – Just arrived!

I just received the physical copy of The Transnational Politics of Higher Education. My student, Victoria Long and I have a co-authored chapter in the book where we focus on the various human-capital strategies adopted by Asian national universities in the last couple of decades as they attempt to transform themselves into “world-class” research universities. Check…

Migrant worker poetry reading and book launch

Back in January 2016, I took a group of Yale-NUS faculty, staff, and students to a migrant worker dormitory at Mandai. There we met, Mukul Hossine, a Bangladeshi poet and novelist who is also a migrant construction worker in Singapore. Mukul has already published a collection of his poetry and a novel back in Bangladesh…

New Book Chapter Out

A chapter I co-wrote with a student of mine – Victoria Long – has just been published in an edited volume on higher education. The chapter looks at the various human capital strategies adopted by Asian national universities in their quest to become “world-class” research universities. I’m very proud of the work that Victoria and…

New article out in Social Forces

The journal Social Forces just published online my article “Negotiating Migration, Performing Gender.” It took a long time to get this article accepted and I’m so glad that it’s finally out there for people to read and comment on. Here’s the abstract for those of you who want to know more: Increasing numbers of independent women…

Catching up with old friends in Hong Kong

This past week I was in Hong Kong, meeting with various NGOs and activists in preparation for my Migrant Nation fieldtrip in May. I caught up with my old friend and migrant rights activist, Vicky, outside the Immigration Tower in Wan Chai. Vicky was waiting with other activists and a horde of journalists to hear…