Core Research Team
PI: Joyce C.H. Liu
Chair Professor
Director of International Center for Cultural Studiesm National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.
| Research focus | Border Politics, Internal Colonialism, Unequal Citizenship, Political Philosophy, Comparative Literature, Visual Studies |
| Research focus |
Labor Law, Gender and Law, Employee and Labor Relations
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Yuan-Horng Chu
Professor
International Center for Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan (ICCS, NYCU)
| Research focus | Urban Ethnography, Ageing Modernity, Religious Violence, State Violence. |
Alain Brossat
Emeritus Professor
International Center for Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan (ICCS, NYCU)
| Research focus | Eurocentrism, hegemony, the construction of narratives, decoloniality, the crisis of the West |
Allen Chun
Chair Professor
International Center for Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan (ICCS, NYCU)
| Research focus |
Post-colonial studies, Empire, Historical transformation
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Kenzi Chiung
Post-Doc Researcher
International Center for Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan (ICCS, NYCU)
| Research focus | Migration, Migrant Workers from the Philippines |
Ko-Lun Chen
Post-doc Researcher/CHCI-GHI Project Officer.
International Center for Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan (ICCS, NYCU)
| Research focus | Intellectual History of Modern Theatre in Taiwan and Asia: Colonialism, Cold War and Martial Law Regime, and Globalisation |
Co-PI: Brett Neilson
Professor
The Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia (ICS,WSU)
| Research focus | Globalization, Circulation of Popular Culture, Proliferation of Borders, Global Financial Markets, Population Ageing and the Growing Heterogeneity of Labour, Logistics as Global Governance, Border Politics. |
Shanthi Robertson
Senior Research Fellow
The Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia (ICS,WSU)
| Research focus | Urban Cultures, Cultural Diversity, Transnational Practices |
Malini Sur
Senior Research Fellow
The Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia (ICS,WSU)
| Research focus | Research focus: Borders, Mobility, Citizenship. |
Co-PI: Sudarat Musikawong
Associate Professor
Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol Migration Center, Mahidol University, Thailand (IPSR & MMC, MU)
| Research focus | Globalization, Circulation of Popular Culture, Proliferation of Borders, Global Financial Markets, Population Ageing and the Growing Heterogeneity of Labour, Logistics as Global Governance, Border Politics. |
Suchada Thaweesit
Assistant Professor
Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol Migration Center, Mahidol University, Thailand (IPSR & MMC, MU)
| Research focus | Medical Anthropology, Women and Gender Studies, Reproductive Health and Sexual Right, Crossed-border Health, HIV/AIDS, Migration, Vulnerable Population and Social Justice (LGBTN, Youth, Women, Elderly, Migrants). |
Sureeporn Punpuing
Associate Professor
Director of Mahidol Migration Center
| Research focus | Director of Mahidol Migration Center. Research Focus: Social Development, Temporary Migration, Reconfiguration of Family Across Distance, Ageing Society, Impact of Children Migration on the Elder Generation in Rural Thailand |
Rosalia Maria Emanuele Sciortino
Associate Professor
Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol Migration Center, Mahidol University, Thailand (IPSR & MMC, MU)
| Research focus | Gender, social health, migration and regional integration in the Greater Mekong Sub-region and ASEAN. |
Malee Sunpuwan
Assistant Professor
Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol Migration Center, Mahidol University, Thailand (IPSR & MMC, MU)
| Research focus | Demography, Urban Refugees, Migrant Public Health, Access to Health Care, Migrant Labor Rights, International Labor, and Marriage Migration. |
Aree Jamplakay
Associate Professor
Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol Migration Center, Mahidol University, Thailand (IPSR & MMC, MU)
| Research focus | Demography, Migration due to Social Unrest, Multiculturalism, Labor Migration, Families Left Behind, Thai-Malaysia Border Migration. |
Rusalina Idrus
Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya, Malaysia (FASS, UM)
| Research focus | Gender Studies, Indigenous Rights and Citizenship, Multicultural Society, Digital Storytelling, Project for the Empowerment of the Homeless, the Urban Poor, and the Aboriginal People (Orang Asli). |
Simon Soon
Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya, Malaysia (FASS, UM)
| Research focus | Penang Field Director of Site and Space in Southeast Asia. Research focus: Art History, Visual Art Studies, Comparative Modernities in the art, spatio-visual practices, and art historiography |
POR Heong Hong
Researcher
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya, Malaysia (FASS, UM)
| Research focus | Bodies, Nationalism and Modernity, Migration, Mental Health Institution in colonial Malaya, Colonial Visual Representation of Leprosy, Gender Politics, and Politics of Memories, Filmmaking. |
Co-PI: Rafal Smoczynski
Associate Professor
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland (IPS, PAS)
| Research focus | social control, migration, sociology of religion, social theory, and sociology of markets |
Dorota Hall
Associate Professor
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland (IPS, PAS)
| Research focus | Cultural Anthropology and Sociology on religion and sexuality, Network of Socio-economic Experts in the Anti-discrimination Field, EU Agency for Fundamental Rights |
Katarzyna Andrejuk
Associate Professor
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland (IPS, PAS)
| Research focus | Sociology and Law, Migrants’ Integration in the Labour Market, Educational Migrations, Europeanisation. |
Co-PI: John HUTNYK
Associate Professor
Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, Ton Duc Thang University (TDTU), Vietnam
| Research focus | Marxism, Port Cities of the Colonial Heritage, Bakun Hydro-Electric Scheme in Sarawak, the Australian Technology Park, the Multimedia Super Corridor in Kuala Lumpur |
Le Thi MAI
Associate Professor
Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, Ton Duc Thang University (TDTU), Vietnam
| Research focus | Cultural Anthropology and Sociology on religion and sexuality, Network of Socio-economic Experts in the Anti-discrimination Field, EU Agency for Fundamental Rights |
Nguyen Thi Hong Xoan
Department of Sociology, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City (VHU-HCM), Vietnam.
Nguyen Nu Nguyet Anh
Department of Sociology, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City (VHU-HCM), Vietnam
Robinson Tammy
School of Education in Applied Art Education, Hanyang University, Seoul