Service

Volunteer

  • 2020: Caseworker and curriculum developer, COVID-19 Migrant Support Coalition, Singapore

  • 2011: Grant-writing intern, Sahara House (NGO for HIV and drugs rehabilitation), New Delhi, India

  • 2010: Digital contents intern, Diaspora Action Australia (Advocacy), Melbourne, Australia

  • 2009: Caseworker, Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics (HOME) (NGO for migrant workers), Singapore

Chair/discussant

  • 2021, University of Melbourne, at workshop Re-Worlding Chinese Transnationalisms International Symposium, 26-27 August

  • 2019, Asia Research Institute, NUS, at seminar Advancing Transnational Migration Studies through “Home”: A Conceptual Inquiry by Assoc Prof Paolo Boccagni (University of Trento, Italy), 14 August

  • 2021, Asia Research Institute, NUS, at workshop 16th Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies, 5-7 July

  • 2020, Asia Research Institute, NUS, at workshop Gender, Migration & Digital Networks, 20-21 February

  • 2019, Asia Research Institute, NUS, at workshop Migrant-led Diversification and Differential Inclusion in Arrival Cities across Asia, 20-21 August

  • 2019, Asia Research Institute, NUS, at workshop 14th Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies, 24-26 July

  • 2019, Asia Research Institute, NUS, at workshop Marriage Migration, Family and Citizenship in Asia, 31 January -1 February

  • 2019, Asia Research Institute, NUS, at workshop Debt, Freedom, and Development: Insights from Asia, 15-16 January

  • 2019, Asia Research Institute, NUS, at workshop Transnational Relations, Ageing and Care (TRACE): Asian Connections and Beyond, 9-10 Jan

  • Mentor, 2019, Asian Graduate Student Fellow Rooney Firmasyah (Universitas Gadjah Mada) on ‘Bridging Non-Normative Sexuality and Religion in A Safe Space: A Study of Youth Interfaith Forum on Sexuality’, Asia Research Institute, NUS

Organized conferences

  • Co-convenor (with Elaine Ho and Brenda Yeoh)- 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)- Migration, vulnerability and the body: An interdisciplinary symposium, Migration and Mobility Research Network, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 23 November 2018

Membership

  • Associations: The Australian Sociological Association, Asian Studies Association of Australia, Chinese Studies Association of Australia, International Sociological Association

  • Active Research Networks: Mobilities, Diversity and Multiculturalism stream (Alfred Deakin Institute), Global South Working Unit (Alfred Deakin Institute), Gender, Environment and Migration research cluster (University of Melbourne), Future of Mobility Network (Transnational)

Mentorship

  • 2021 The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Postgraduate Mentoring Session, 22 November

  • 2019 Asian Graduate Student Fellow Rooney Firmasyah (Universitas Gadjah Mada) on ‘Bridging Non-Normative Sexuality and Religion in A Safe Space’, National University of Singapore

Peer Reviewer

  • Peer reviewer for journals: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Sociological Review, Journal of Intercultural Studies, Asian Studies Review, Asian Ethnicity, Emotion, Space and Society, Urban Studies, Australian Geographer, International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, Social and Cultural Geography, Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration, Urban Geography, Antipode