Using qualitative research methods, I study gendered experiences of transnational families across class lines, particularly between East Asia and Western countries.

 

My research agenda consists of two broad goals: 1) to understand the intersectional impact of social categories–class, gender, race, ethnicity, and citizenship–on social reproduction across national borders; and 2) to explore the construction of (cosmopolitan) selves in that process, which is often intergenerational. I am particularly interested in how East Asian families employ migration as a strategy for family survival and/or class reproduction and how gender, in particular, shapes the roles and identities of individual family members in the process.​