• PhD, The University of Auckland（2012.9-2016.10）

• MA & BA, Shandong University (2009-2012；2004-2008）

Biography

• I am a Professor in the Department of Sociology of Zhou Enlai School of Government at Nankai University, and the Associate Editor of Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Prior to my current position, I worked as an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Sun Yat-sen University (2017-2021). My research areas include international migration, intercultural encounters and cosmopolitanism, with a geographic focus on Asia-Pacific and theoretical focus on emotions, embodiments, times/temporalities, and migration infrastructure. I have published widely on these topics in high-ranked international journals sand my recently published book with Routledge is entitled New Chinese Migrants in New Zealand: Becoming Cosmopolitan? Roots, Emotions and Everyday Diversity (2019). I am currently researching on educational/knowledge mobilities between the Global North and the South. 

Employment 

• 2021.12-present, Professor, Department of Sociology, Zhou Enlai School of Government, Nankai University, China

• 2017.1-2021.12, Associate Professor, School of Sociology and Anthropology, Sun Yat-sen University, China

Research Gate

• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bingyu-Wang

Research Projects

• Project Title: Emotions and mobilities: Researching Chinese Knowledge Diaspora

  Role: Primary Investigator, funded by ‘All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese’, 2020.3-2022.3

• Project Title: Time and migration: Life course and career progressions amongst Chinese academic returnees

  Role: Primary Investigator, funded by ‘China Social Science Foundation’, 2017/06-2021/06

• Project Title: Migration infrastructures and (im)mobility aspirations: Foreign scholars in China

  Role: Primary Investigator, funded by Sun Yat-sen University, 2017/04-2019/04

• Project Title: Migrant times and labour precarity: African Diaspora in China

  Role: Primary Investigator, funded by ‘Sun Yat-sen University Start-up Research Fund’, 2017/01-...

Research Areas

• Highly-skilled migration, academic migration and lifestyle migration

• Emotions, times/temporalities and embodiments in the context of (im)mobility
  

• Migration infrastructures, talent governance and knowledge mobilities
  

• Cosmopolitanism, diverse societies and intercultural encounters

Invited Talks & Conference Presentations

• 2022. 2 INFRASTRUCTURES AND (IM)MOBILE LIVES: INTERRUPTIONS, FAILURES, AND REPAIRS, ORGANISED BY THE ASIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE, Singapore

  'Feeling infrastructural interruptions and infrastructuring strategies: Foreign Scholars in China'

• 2021.7 Chinese Annual Sociological Conference, China

  ‘Times, temporalities and (im)mobilities: Chinese international students during the COVID-19’ (Invited speaker)

• 2021.5 Zhejiang University- Young Scholars Forum, China  

  ‘Academic mobilities between the Global North and the South’ (Invited speaker)

• 2021.5 Brokers of Aspirations: Education and Cosmopolitanism, Chinese Studies, Oslo University (on-line)

  ‘The temporal turn in migration: Chinese academic returnees’ (Invited speaker)

• 2021.4：Chinese Journal of Sociology on-line Workshop Theories-Migration and Global China

  ‘Infrastructural turn in migration studies: Mobile foreign scholars in China’ (Invited speaker)

• 2020.5： Sociological on-line forum of East China University of Science and Technology

  ‘Academic mobilities in the Asia Pacific’ (Invited speaker)

• 2019.11 10th International Conference of ISSCO, Guangzhou, China

  ‘Academic intermediaries in the context of highly-skilled migration’ (Selected presenter)

• 2019.9 Zhejiang University UCLA Joint Conference on International Migration Studies, China

  ‘Temporariness, precarity and temporal labour amongst Chinese academic returnees’ (Selected presenter)

• 2016.9 New Zealand Geography Society-Geography Auckland September Dialogues, Auckland, New Zealand

  ‘Time, cosmopolitanism and migration i...

Undergraduate courses: Sociology of Migration, Ethnographic Research, Sociology of the Everyday, Sociology of Family, Cultural Sociology; 

Postgraduate course: Advanced Social Research Methods

Book

Wang, Bingyu. 2019. New Chinese Migrants in New Zealand: Becoming Cosmopolitan? Roots, Emotions and Everyday Diversity. London: Routledge. 

Journal Articles in English 

1) Wang, Bingyu. 2022. “Immobility infrastructures: Taking online courses and staying put amongst Chinese international students during the COVID-19.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Advance online publication. DOI:10.1080/1369183X.2022.2029376 

2) Wang, Bingyu. 2022. “Infrastructures in migration: Mobile foreign academics in China and the ‘everyday’, ‘agency’ and ‘arrival’ focus.” Geoforum 129: 141-150. 

3) Wang, Bingyu. 2021. “Time, temporality and (im)mobility: Unpacking the temporal experiences amongst Chinese international students during the COVID-19.” Population, Space and Place.  https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2545  

4) Wang, Bingyu, and J. Chen. 2021. “Emotions and migration aspirations: western scholars in China and the navigation of aspirational possibilities.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 47(15): 3437-3454.

5) Wang, Bingyu. 2021. Body in migration: Bodily experiences and strategies amongst foreign scholars in China. Population, Space and Place. DOI: 10.1002/psp.2459 

6) Wang, Bingyu, and J, Chen. 2021. “Engaging in or retreating from cosmopolitanism? Times,temporalities and migration.” Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. DOI:10.1080/1070289X.2020.1863036

7) Chen, J., and Bingyu Wang. 2020. “Unattended” retirement: Lifestyle migration and precarity of the Houniao.” Population, Space and Place. DOI: 10.1002/psp.2369 

8) Wang, Bingyu, and Francis Collins. 2020. “Temporally distributed aspirations: New Chinese Migrants to New Zealand and the Figuring of Migration Futures.” Sociology 54(3): 573-590. 

9) Wang, Bingyu. 2020. “Time in migration: temporariness, precarity and temporal labour amongst Chinese scholars returning from the Global North to South.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 46 (11): 2127-2144 

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2021 Member of '100 Distinguised Young Leading Scholars' Talent Scheme, Nankai University, China 

2017 Member of '100 Top Talents Program', Sun Yat-sen University, China

2015 Academic Career Exploration Scholarship, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

2013 First in Course Award, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

2012 Doctoral Research Scholarship, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

2010 International Chinese-teaching Volunteer, Ministry of Education of China, China