WANG Bingyu-Zhou Enlai School of Government at Nankai University

Education

PhD, The University of Auckland（2012.9-2016.10）
MA & BA, Shandong University (2009-2012；2004-2008）

Work Experience

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’, 2017/01-2020/01
Project Title: Language ideologies and practices among marriage migrants in South Korea
Primary Investigator: Mi Yung Park
Role: Research Assistant (2016/7-12), funded by Faculty of Arts, University of Auckland
Project Title: New Zealanders in Australia
Primary Investigator: Francis Collins
Role: Research Assistant (2016/7-12), funded by University of Auckland
Project Title: Emerging geographies of temporary migration in Auckland/New Zealand
Primary Investigator: Francis Collins
Role: Research Assistant (2015/6-2015/12), funded by University of Auckland
Project Title: Globalising universities and international student mobilities in East Asia
Primary Investigator: Ho Kong Chong, Co-PI: Brenda Yeoh, Co-PI: Francis Collins
Role: Research Assistant (2015/6-2015/12), funded by the Singapore Ministry of Education

Expertise

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 in New Zealand’ (Invited speaker)
2016.5 Diversity encounters: Intersectional and Post-Colonial Perspectives, Joint Conference of Humboldt University and National University of Singapore, Berlin, Germany
‘Performing everyday cosmopolitanism amongst New Chinese Migrants in New Zealand’ (Selected presenter)
2015.7 9th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 9), Adelaide, Australia
‘Emotions and Cosmopolitan Sociability’ (Selected presenter)
2015.7 6th Aotearoa New Zealand Mobilities Symposium 2015, Hamilton, New Zealand
‘Feeling Cosmopolitan? The Emotional Dimension of Home-making’ (Selected presenter)
2014.6 IAG/NZGS Conference 2014, Melbourne, Australia
‘You Move, You feel; you feel, You Move’ (Selected presenter)
2013.11 The 20th New Zealand Asian Studies Society International Conference, Auckland, New Zealand
‘Cosmopolitanism and Everyday Migrant Lives’ (Selected presenter)
2013.5 Asia-Pacific Worlds in Motion Conference V, Vancouver, Canada
‘Methodological Cosmopolitanism: A Cosmopolitan Gaze Towards Migration Studies’ (Selected presenter)

Courses

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

Postgraduate course: Advanced Social Research Methods

Selected Publications

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

10) Wang, Bingyu. 2020. “A Temporal Gaze Towards Academic Migration: Everyday Times, Lifetimes and Temporal Strategies amongst Early Career Chinese Academic Returnees.” Time and Society 29 (1): 166-186.

11) Li, Fangxuan, and Bingyu Wang. 2020. “Social contact theory and attitude change through tourism: Researching Chinese visitors to North Korea.” Tourism Management Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmp.2020.100743

12) Wang, Bingyu, and Francis Collins. 2016. “Emotions and cosmopolitan sociability: Barriers and opportunities for intercultural encounters amongst new Chinese migrants in New Zealand.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 42 (1): 88-102.

13) Wang, Bingyu, and Francis Collins. 2016. “Becoming Cosmopolitan? Hybridity and Intercultural Encounters amongst 1.5 Generation Chinese Migrants in New Zealand.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 39 (15): 2777-2795.

14) Li, Fangxuan, and Bingyu Wang. 2020. “Social contact theory and attitude change through tourism: Researching Chinese visitors to North Korea.” Tourism Management Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmp.2020.100743

15) Wang Bingyu. 2016. “Performing Everyday Cosmopolitanism? Uneven Encounters with Diversity amongst First Generation New Chinese Migrants in New Zealand.” Ethnicities 18 (5) ：717-734.

16) Wang, Bingyu. 2016. “Emotions and home-making: Performing Cosmopolitan Sociability amongst First Generation New Chinese Migrants in New Zealand.” Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 25(2): 130–147.

Journal Articles in Chinese

17)《移民基础设施与南南流动：在穗非洲商人的制度身份困境、日常生活体验与能动性实践》《广东社会科学》2021年第2期，190-204；“Migration infrastructure and South-South mobiilities: Institutaional predicaments, everyday life experiences and agency amongst African Merchants in Guangzhou.” The Journal of Guangdong Social Science 2021(2):190-204.

18)《流动想象与学术移民：中国回流学者的工作和生活研究》《广东社会科学》2020年第2期; “Mobility Imaginaries and Academic Migration: Work and Life amongst Chinese Academic Returnees.” The Journal of Guangdong Social Science 2020 (2):199-211.

19)《移民与家庭生活: 新西兰中国新移民实证研究》《中山大学学报（社会科学版）》2019年第3期, 137-145; “Migration and Family Life: The Case Study of New Chinese Migrants in New Zealand.” Sun Yat-sen University Journal-The Social Science Section 59(3): 137-145.

20)《新西兰第一代中国新移民社交困境研究: 基于“接触地带”视角》《广东社会科学》2019年第3期, 191-200; “Socialising Barriers amongst the First-generation New Chinse Migrants in New Zealand: The Perspective of ‘The Contact Zone’.” The Journal of Guangdong Social Science Vol (3): 191-200.

21)《不婚现象: 中国社会的现实与可能性》, 《青年探索》2018年第5期，28-40. “Celibatarian phenomena: Reality and possibilities in Chinese society.” Youth Studies 2018 (5): 28-40.