Bao Hanli
is the dean of the College of Overseas Chinese at Wenzhou University, China. She serves in various other roles including professor and head of Zhejiang Overseas Chinese Online College, director of the European Chinese Language and Culture Education Research Institute at Wenzhou University, leader of the Overseas Chinese Studies Discipline, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Overseas Chinese Studies, and a director of the China Overseas Chinese History Society. She has also published a large number of papers related to overseas Chinese language and culture education.
Joaquín Beltrán Antolín
is associate professor in the Department of Translation, Interpreting, and East Asian Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain and co-principal investigator of the InterAsia Research Group. He is director of the Contemporary China Series at Bellaterra Edicions and InterAsia Papers-UAB. As an anthropologist specializing in international migration, he studies numerous topics surrounding the Chinese diaspora and China. His works include Los ocho inmortales cruzan el mar. Chinos en Extremo Occidente (Bellaterra Edicions 2003), Empresariado asiático en España (co-edited with Amelia Sáiz, Fundació CIDOB 2009), and Asia oriental. Transnacionalismo, Sociedad y cultura (Bellaterra Edicions 2021).
Fanni Beck
recently received her PhD in social anthropology from the Central European University, Vienna, Austria. Her research focuses on how China’s restructuring as a market economy and its repositioning within the global hierarchy are reflected in emerging patterns of middle-class outmigration. Her recent publications include “In Pursuit of a ‘Good Enough Life’: Chinese ‘Educational Exiles’ in Lisbon and Budapest” (with Sofia Gaspar), “It’s All for the Child: The Discontents of Middle-Class Chinese Parenting and Migration to Europe” (with Pál Nyíri), and “From the Politics of the Motherland to the Politics of Motherhood: Chinese Golden Visa Migrants in Hungary.”
Martina Bofulin
is a permanent research associate at the Slovenian Migration Institute at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU) specializing in migration between the People’s Republic of China and Europe. Her ethnographic monograph Daleč doma: Migracije iz Ljudske republike
Yuk Wah Chan
is an associate professor at the Department of Public and International Affairs at City University of Hong Kong. Her research interests cover international migration issues, Vietnamese-Chinese relationships, borderlands, food, and cultural politics. She is the lead editor of the Routledge Series on Asian Migration and an editorial member of the series Asian Borderlands and the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Cai Chen
is a PhD researcher at the Laboratory of Anthropology of Contemporary Worlds (LAMC), Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. His research interests include queer migration, overseas Chinese, conjugal mixedness, ethnic and race relations, and China–Africa engagements. Chen’s ongoing doctoral research explores the ethnoracial dynamics among Sino-Congolese couples residing in postcolonial DR Congo. His previous work focuses on the interrelationship between migration and sexuality among gay Chinese students in France. Chen’s work has been featured in Journal of Chinese Overseas, Migrations société, and The Conversation (France).
Grazia Ting Deng
is a lecturer in anthropology at Brandeis University, United States. She is a sociocultural anthropologist working at the intersection of the Chinese diaspora and immigrant Italy. Her research projects broadly focus on migration, racial formation, global capitalism, space and place, food, labour, and health. She is the author of Chinese Espresso: Contested Race and Convivial Space in Contemporary Italy (Princeton University Press 2024).
Sofia Gaspar
(PhD in Sociology) is a senior researcher at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Lisboa, Portugal, specializing in privileged migration, investment mobilities, and migrants’ social integration. She is the local coordinator of AspirE, “Decision Making of Aspiring (Re)Migrants to/within the EU: The Case of Labour Market-Leading Migrations from Asia,” funded by HORIZON Europe. Her publications include the book The Presence of China and the Chinese Diaspora in Portugal
Marie Gibert-Flutre
is an associate professor of geography in the Department of East Asia Studies at the Université Paris Cité, France. Her research deals with urbanization in Asia. By critically exploring “global Asia” through ordinary neighbourhoods, she turns the traditional approach to “global cities” upside down and contributes to a renewed conception of metropolization as a highly situated process involving intertwined local forces. She served as PI for the “Governing Diverse Cities in Europe and Asia” project with National University of Singapore. She co-edited Asian Alleyways: An Urban Vernacular in Times of Globalization (Amsterdam University Press 2020).
Gilles Guiheux
is a full professor at Université Paris Cité and a member of the Centre for Social Studies on African, American, and Asian worlds (CESSMA). He specializes in the economic sociology of China and his recent publications include: co-editor of the special issue on “Labour Regimes in China. Identity, Institutions, and Agency” of Mouvement Social (2023) and co-editor of Precariousness in High-Growth Economies. Comparing Labor in Contemporary China and Postwar Japan and France (Amsterdam University Press 2024). He has also co-edited an online exhibition: Workers’ Experiences. Lives, Bodies, Struggles (http://workersoftheworld.uliege.be).
Maggi W.H. Leung
is a professor in the Department of Human Geography, Planning and International Development Studies, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is a social geographer and migration scholar by training. Her research aims to account for the prevailing uneven socio-spatial impact of the flows that define our interconnected world. Working with multi-scalar (from the global to the body), intersectional, and translocal perspectives, her main research interests include: opportunities and challenges of migration with a focus on related injustices, internationalization of education and knowledge mobilities, as well as “global China” and its impact on global development.
Li Minghuan
(PhD, University of Amsterdam) is a distinguished professor at the Academy of Overseas Chinese, Jinan University, PRC. Prior to 2013, she was Professor and Vice Dean at the School of Public Affairs, Xiamen University. She specializes
Wuzhi Li
is a PhD candidate in economic sociology, migration sociology, and urban geography at Université Paris Cité (Paris, France), and a member of the Centre for Social Studies on African, American and Asian Worlds (CESSMA). His research interests include Chinese migrants’ economic activities, especially wholesale trade, in France and Europe, as well as their role in local urban development and the global distribution of “made-in-China” products. The topic of his PhD thesis is Chinese wholesale markets in Europe. He has been conducting fieldwork on this subject in various cities across Europe and China.
Yong Li
holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Rouen Normandy, France. He is a member of the Dysolab and a research associate at the Triangle Laboratory, ENS Lyon. He is also a fellow with the French Collaborative Institute on Migration. His work focuses on Chinese student migration, the racialization of skilled and educated people of Asian origin, and the digital labour of migrants. He has recently published “Feminine Digital Entrepreneurship: The E-Commerce of Infant Milk Formula among Chinese Migrant Women in France” in the edited volume by Zani and Cockel, Living Across Connectivity (Anthem Press 2024).
Imogen T. Liu
is an assistant professor of International Political Economy at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on the role of the state in uneven processes of global capitalist change. She has published in a range of journals spanning political economy, geography, and development studies, including New Political Economy, Socio-Economic Review, Development and Change, Journal of Economic Geography, Geopolitics, Contemporary Politics, and Area Development and Policy. She is co-editor of Geoeconomics in a Changing Global Order: Europe in a Changing World (Palgrave 2022) and early career representative of the Journals Committee of the Regional Studies Association.
Jiaqi M. Liu
is an assistant professor of sociology at Singapore Management University, Singapore. His research lies at the intersection of political sociology,
Siyu Luo
is an assistant professor of sociology at the School of Sociology and Anthropology, Xiamen University, China. She received her PhD in Criminology from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Her research examines irregular migration and migration control, focusing on irregular Chinese migrants in the UK. She has published in journals of criminology and demography, including Theoretical Criminology, European Journal of Criminology, and Population, Space & Place.
Lü Yun-fang
is an associate professor in the College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Xiamen University, China, specializing in transnational migration studies. She received her PhD in sociological anthropology from Xiamen University. Her research focuses on the current migration across the Chinese border, including Chinese migration to Europe and international migration to China. She has published articles about the identity issues of second-generation Chinese Buddhists in the Netherlands, the relation between religious organizations and immigrant communities, and qiaoxiang (hometowns of overseas Chinese) studies.
Francesco Madrisotti
is a data scientist at DataScientest (France). He holds a PhD in Anthropology and Ethnology from the EHESS, Paris, France. His work analyses transnational mobility, discrimination, and psychological distress. Francesco’s research incorporates quantitative and qualitative analytical methods. His most recent work uses statistical and data science methods to investigate the interaction between human behaviour and digital technologies. He has recently published “Stress and Anxiety among the Chinese Population in France during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study Examining Societal and Individual Factors” in the volume Chinese in France amid the COVID-19 Pandemic, edited by Simeng Wang (Brill 2023).
Irene Masdeu Torruella
is a tenure-eligible lecturer in the Department of Translation, Interpreting, and East Asian Studies at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. She is
Fei Vincent Mo
is a PhD candidate from Central European University, and he teaches courses on European politics and Chinese politics in Vienna, Budapest, Zhuhai, and Hong Kong. He graduated from Hong Kong Baptist University and then received his master’s degree in international relations at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. His research interests are international relations theories, cultural diplomacy, EU–China relations, and political communication. He has contributed to various research projects in Europe and Hong Kong about China’s domestic migration policies, perceptions of democracy, and cultural engagements between Europe and China.
Valentina Pedone
(PhD from the University of Rome “La Sapienza,” Italy) is an associate professor of Chinese Studies at the Department of Education, Languages, Interculture, Literatures and Psychology, University of Florence, Italy, where she coordinates the research unit Sino-Italian Links and Crossroads. Her academic interests lie in the languages and cultures of people of Chinese origins in Italy, Italian Orientalism, and Sino-Italian cultural production. She recently co-edited a volume titled Cultural Mobility between China and Italy (Palgrave 2023). She is co-editor in chief of the book series Florientalia: East Asian Studies Series (Firenze University Press).
Aaron Raphael Ponce
is a doctoral fellow and academic assistant at the Laboratory of Anthropology of Contemporary Worlds, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. His research focuses on gay Asian migration to Belgium and non-heteronormative couplehood. He is a member of the Centre for East Asian Studies at ULB’s Maison des Sciences humaines and instructor of Buddhist history at the Faculté Universitaire de Théologie Protestante, Brussels. He is a member of the Belgian-Asian Couples Research Team and a founding member of the Philippine Studies Network-Belgium; the Philippine LGBT+ Network in Brussels; and the Philippine Art and Culture Exchange Association of Belgium.
is an associate professor at Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain and Co-Principal Investigator of the Inter-Asia research group. Her main research areas are gender and society in East Asia, gender and Chinese migration, and cultural production of Chinese in Spain. She is the author of Utopía y género. Las mujeres chinas en el siglo XX (Bellaterra Edicions 2001) and “Gender, Development and Asian Migration in Spain: The Chinese Case” (Edward Elgar 2013). She also co-edited Narrativas de lo chino en Las Américas y la Península Ibérica (Bellaterra Edicions 2020).
Eva Salerno
(PhD from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France and Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy) is an associate professor of anthropology in the Faculty of Education at the Catholic University of Paris. She has published on Catholic religious practice and family tradition in Chinese parishes in Europe. She has also worked on a research project on Catholicism in Taiwan, funded by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (Taipei). Her work has appeared in various academic journals, including Journal of Modern and Contemporary Christianity, La Ricerca Folklorica, Review of Religion and Chinese Society, and Sinosfere.
Mette Thunø
(PhD, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) is associate professor of China Studies and former dean of the Faculty of Arts at Aarhus University, Denmark. Specializing in Chinese migration, she has published widely in international journals, co-authored Transnational Chinese: Fujianese Migrants in Europe (Stanford University Press 2004), and edited Beyond Chinatown: New Chinese Migration and the Global Expansion of China (NIAS Press 2007). She co-founded the China–Europe Research Platform on Chinese Migration to Europe and Beyond and is Vice-President of the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas. She is the Series Editor of the Brill Handbooks of Chinese Overseas.
Yvette To
(PhD from City University of Hong Kong) is an assistant professor at the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research covers the reform and development of technology sectors in China and the impacts this has on China’s relations with other countries. She is also interested in the formation and evolution of the Hong Kong diaspora. Yvette has published in New Political Economy and American Behavioral Scientist. She is the author of Contested Development in China’s Transition to an Innovation-Driven Economy (Routledge 2022).
(PhD, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France) is an assistant professor in Politics and Public Administration at the Hong Kong Metropolitan University, and an associate researcher at the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (Hong Kong) and the Montreal Centre for International Studies. Her research investigates global China (public diplomacy, overseas Chinese), and Hong Kong. She has published in journals including Mediterranean Politics, Journal of Contemporary China, China Perspectives, and International Migration, as well as book chapters and co-edited volumes, including China in the Mediterranean: An Arena of Strategic Competition? (Routledge 2024).
Yu-chin Tseng
is a junior professor in Chinese Studies at the University of Tübingen, Germany,and she serves as the co-director of the European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT). She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Essex, United Kingdom. Her research centres on the relationship between mobility, intimacy, and the state across Asia and Europe. She has published widely on the topics of marriage and migration, gender and family, and China’s public diplomacy in, e.g., Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of Risk and Financial Management, and Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives.
Chenna Wang
is an assistant professor of anthropology at the School of International Relations at Xi’an International Studies University, China. She is also a post-doctoral researcher at Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. Her research lies within the fields of anthropology, globalization, and regional and area studies.
Simeng Wang
(PhD, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France) is a permanent researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS, CERMES3), fellow of the French Collaborative Institute on Migration, and the coordinator of the multidisciplinary research network Migration from East and Southeast Asia in France. She publishes extensively on Chinese and Asian migrations, including: Chinese Migrants in Paris. The Narratives of Illusion and Suffering (Brill 2021); Chinese Immigrants in Europe: Image, Identity and Social Participation (Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2020); and Chinese in France amid the COVID-19 Pandemic. Daily Lives, Racial Struggles and Transnational Citizenship of Migrants and Descendants (Brill 2023).
(PhD, People’s Friendship University of Russia; postdoctoral research at the School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, China) is vice dean and associate researcher at the Overseas Chinese College of Wenzhou University, China. She studies international Chinese businesspeople, overseas Chinese in Russia, and the economy of overseas Chinese. Her articles have been published in Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, and in Huaqiao huaren lishi yuanjiu [Overseas Chinese History Studies]. Her monograph is Dichan jingying moshi chuangxin: Yihai jituan yanjiu [Innovation of Real Estate Management Model: A Study of Yihai Group] (Overseas Chinese Publishing House 2016).
Gaoheng Zhang
is associate professor of Italian Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada. His first book, Migration and the Media: Debating Chinese Migration to Italy, 1922–2012 (University of Toronto Press 2019), is the first work in media and cultural studies to examine Chinese migration from both Italian and Chinese migrant perspectives. He co-edited Cultural Mobilities between China and Italy (Palgrave Macmillan 2023), which offers a critical analysis of global mobilities across modern China and Italy. His current book projects examine how cultural representations and dynamics of food and fashion mobilities between Italy and China are deepened by migration and tourism.