Conference Presentations

Fully funded

“Using technology to reposition low-wage masculinities” presented at the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS) conference at Humboldt University, Berlin, 12 Sep 2019

“Middling migrants and the issue of skills in Australia” presented at The Question of Skills in cross-border labor mobility Conference at Waseda University, Tokyo, 20 Sep 2018

“Chinese masculinities: low-wage Chinese male migrants in Singapore” presented at the 11th Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies, Asia Research Institute, Singapore, 12 July 2016

“Transience, mobility and racialization: Chinese migrants and the politics of co-ethnicity in Singapore” at the Mobile Labour Symposium, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal, 26 March 2019

“Stuck between the Global North and Global South: male temporary graduate workers in Australia” presented at Mobile Lives “In-Between”: Rethinking Transnationalisms “of the Middle” Workshop, Western Sydney University, Australia, 8 June 2018

 “House, car or permanent residency? Higher-wage Chinese migrant men’s symbols of masculinity in Singapore” and ““The lower classes smell”: how disgust legitimates ethnicity, class and citizenship in a context of migration” presented at the International Convention of Asian Scholars 10, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 20 July 2017

Awarded travel grants

Other Conferences

  • “Chinese youths’ perceptions of ‘white’ immigration in China” (with Fran Martin) presented at the Chinese Studies Association Conference, Australian National University, Virtual, 1 Dec 2021
  • “Pandemic politics and the rise of immigration: Attitudes toward ‘westerners’ and the ‘West’ among youths in China” (with Fran Martin) presented at the Alfred Deakin Institute 2021 Conference, Deakin University, Virtual, 12 Nov 2021
  • “Experiencing co-ethnicity through everyday (im)mobilities: Singaporean elite migrants in China” (with Elaine Ho and Leng Leng Thang) presented at the International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS) 12, Virtual, 25 August 2021
  • “Sinophobia in the Asian century: race, nation and Othering in Australia and Singapore” (with Val Colic-Peisker) presented at the International workshop on New racism and migration: Beyond colour and the “west”, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, 16 January 2020
  • “Middle-class transnational caregiving: older single migrants and the uneven burden of care” presented at the Transnational Relations, Ageing and Care (TRACE): Asian Connections and Beyond Workshop,Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, 9 January 2020
  • “Middling male migrants in Australia and Singapore” presented at the International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS) 11, Leiden, Netherlands, 17 July 2019
  • Does “Invisible Privilege” Travel? Conference, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, 2 May 2019
  • “Stuck between the Global North and Global South: Middling male migrants in Australia and Singapore” presented at the Workshop on Shaping Migrant and Mobile Worlds: Connectivities, Comparisons, Collaborations, National University of Singapore, 21 February 2019
  • “Vulnerability, precarity and the bane of ethnic proximity: low-wage Chinese migrant men in Singapore” presented at Migration, vulnerability and the body: An interdisciplinary symposium, Migration and Mobility Research Network, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 23 November 2018
  • “Conceptualising ‘vulnerability’, ‘precarity’ and ‘intimacy’: a case study of low-wage migrant men in Singapore”presented at The Australian Sociological Association Conference, Deakin University, Melbourne, 19 November 2017
  • “Place and co-ethnic tensions: Racializing newly-arrived Chinese migrants in Singapore’s ‘new Chinatown’” presented at The Australian Sociological Association Conference, University of Western Australia, 27 November 2017
  • “I have PR: Higher-wage Chinese migrant men’s masculinities in Singapore” presented at the Association for Asian Studies Conference, Toronto, Canada, 16 March 2017 
  • “Masculine cosmopolitanism” presented at the Gender, Mobility Regimes and Social Transformation in Asia Symposium, University of Melbourne, Australia, 3 November 2016
  • “’The lower classes smell’: how disgust legitimates ethnicity, class and citizenship in a context of migration” presented at Moral Horizons: the Australian Anthropological Society Anthropological Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 3 Dec 2015
  • “The contestation of social imaginaries” presented at the Asian Cultural Research Network Symposium 2015, University of Melbourne, Australia, 25 Aug 2015
  • “The racialization of Chinese migrant women” presented at the Race, Mobility and Imperial Networks Conference 2015, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 9 Nov 2015
  • “The separate virtual publics of migrants and locals” and “Chinese middle-class femininity” presented at the International Convention of Asian Scholars 9, Adelaide, Australia, 5 July 2015
  • “The new Chinatown” presented at the Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa/New Zealand (ASAA/NZ) and the Australian Anthropological Society Anthropological Conference, Queenstown, New Zealand, 10 Nov 2014
  • “Singapore’s 2nd Chinatown” presented at the Migrant Cross-cultural Encounters Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand, 24 Nov 2014

Organized Conferences

Lead co-convenor

(with Elaine Ho and Brenda Yeoh, National University of Singapore)

International workshop on New racism and migration: Beyond colour and the “west”, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, 16-17 January 2020

Co-convenor

(with Val Colic-Peisker and Geoffrey Mead, University of Melbourne)

Migration, vulnerability and the body: An interdisciplinary symposium, Migration and Mobility Research Network, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 23 November 2018