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Qing Tingting Liu @bardjester.bsky.social · 7d

I really like how the JEMS Editorial Team has such a strong sense of ceremony, sending out this important decision announcement early this morning—on the very first day of October! Looking forward to its official publication and to sharing these major findings from my dissertation project

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AAAS Social Science Caucus @aaas-socsci.bsky.social · 23d

Transnational Asian/America Mini-Conference 2.0 Call for Papers: This Mini-Conference will align with the 2026 ESS theme of world-making, inviting papers that challenge traditional Asian/America narratives and highlight transnational views in struggles, constraints, transformations, and repair.

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AAAS Social Science Caucus @aaas-socsci.bsky.social · 28d

The AAAS SocSci Caucus is pleased to announce a call for nominations for three article awards: Outstanding Graduate Student Research Article, Outstanding Emerging Scholar Research Article, and Outstanding Tenured Faculty Research Article.

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AAAS Social Science Caucus @aaas-socsci.bsky.social · 28d

The Summer/Fall 2025 Newsletter is now live! Major thanks to the Caucus Secretary, Yvonne Kwan, for putting the newsletter together. Please be sure to send kudos to your friends and colleagues for their accomplishments!

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Qing Tingting Liu @bardjester.bsky.social · Sep 8

Each category typically receives about 8–10 submissions, with the deadline for papers at the end of October. Our goal is to complete selections by the end of January 2026. check out our website: sites.google.com/view/aaas-so...

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Qing Tingting Liu @bardjester.bsky.social · Sep 8

I’ve recently started as the Research Coordinator for the @aaas-socsci.bsky.social , and we’re looking for volunteers to serve on the selection committee for either the Outstanding Graduate Student / Faculty Research Award.
If you’re interested, please feel free to reach out at [email protected].

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Qing Tingting Liu @bardjester.bsky.social · Sep 6

Hey folks, feel free to reach out about our writing groups. We’re looking forward to a productive fall semester together!

AAAS Social Science Caucus @aaas-socsci.bsky.social · Sep 6

We also invite you to join one of our two online writing groups for Fall 2025! To receive the zoom links and additional details, please email our mentoring coordinators, Xuemei Cao ([email protected]) and Carolyn Choi ([email protected]).

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Qing Tingting Liu @bardjester.bsky.social · Aug 14

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Qing Tingting Liu @bardjester.bsky.social · Aug 13

As a Ph.D. candidate on the job market, I deeply appreciate the energy, care, encouragement, support, and friendship you all shared. I look forward to crossing paths again in the near future😊

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Qing Tingting Liu @bardjester.bsky.social · Aug 13

ASA 2025 in Chicago was my best ASA conference experience since 2019. I was honored to be a panelist in two sessions:
1. The Politics of Racism and Anti-Racism: Racial Processes Across Institutions
2. Inequality and Diversity among Asian Americans and Beyond

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Qing Tingting Liu @bardjester.bsky.social · Aug 6

Beck’s theory offers a powerful framework for demonstrating how the process of ‘forging one’s own fate’ (Beck 1992, 135) enables Chinese WHMs to moderate, subvert, or nullify the limitations of their domestic environment through transnational mobility.

Qing Tingting Liu @bardjester.bsky.social · Aug 6

3. Reembedding—’Being yourself’ became central to their decision to stay in Australia beyond the program’s end, as they found greater physical, social, mental, and emotional space in Australia compared to China.

Qing Tingting Liu @bardjester.bsky.social · Aug 6

2. Disembedding—They did not identify with mainstream ‘common sense’ in China, rejecting expectations of (1) collectivism and uniformity, (2) interpersonal relations in the work- place, and (3) gender norms and heteronormativity.

Qing Tingting Liu @bardjester.bsky.social · Aug 6

1. Disenchantment—Many participants described feeling lost in the pre-migration context, uncertain about their career, identity, and future direction.

Qing Tingting Liu @bardjester.bsky.social · Aug 6

Based on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork and life-story interviews with 30 Chinese WHMs in Australia, I apply Ulrich Beck’s (1992) theory of triple individualization to conceptualize working holiday migration as a biographical response to institutional failure in their country of origin.

Qing Tingting Liu @bardjester.bsky.social · Aug 6

New Publication in Mobilities:
"Disenchantment, disembedding, and reembedding: Chinese working holiday makers and the remaking of individual biography." 📖 Read the article here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/6EDRY...
📄 PDF version: drive.google.com/file/d/1vOmV...

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Qing Tingting Liu @bardjester.bsky.social · Jun 21

Thank you for sharing Ruiyi! Looking forward to reading your work too🥰

Qing Tingting Liu @bardjester.bsky.social · Jun 20

A PDF version for free access is available here: drive.google.com/file/d/1dxLt...

Privilege or marginalization how Chinese youth from divergent class backgrounds make sense of racism in the U.S. and Australia.pdf

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Qing Tingting Liu @bardjester.bsky.social · Jun 20

Third, it provides a comparative lens to examine how immigration regimes and labor markets mediate migrants’ sense of belonging and agency. By moving beyond methodological nationalism, this study shows the need for cross-national learning in shaping effective immigration policies.

Qing Tingting Liu @bardjester.bsky.social · Jun 20

Second, our findings underscore that privilege operates not as a fixed attribute but as a contingent and relational construct, shaped by transnational migration, national racial or class hierarchies, and structural opportunities.

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Qing Tingting Liu @bardjester.bsky.social · Jun 20

This study contributes to the existing literature in three critical ways:
First, our findings reveal how racialization is not solely determined by host-country structures but is co-constructed through transnational interactions between sending and receiving contexts.

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Qing Tingting Liu @bardjester.bsky.social · Jun 20

@weirongguo.bsky.social and I are excited to share our latest publication in Ethnic and Racial Studies: "Privilege or marginalization: how Chinese youth from divergent class backgrounds make sense of racism in the U.S. and Australia." 🔗：https://lnkd.in/e94yeAki

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Qing Tingting Liu @bardjester.bsky.social · Mar 19

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Grateful for the support and engagement from the academic community. Huge thanks to Sociological Inquiry and Alpha Kappa Delta: The International Sociology Honor Society for this recognition!

The Reconstruction of the Cosmopolitan Imaginary: Chinese International Students during the COVID‐19 Pandemic1

Social and geopolitical disruptions triggered by the COVID-19 crisis have raised crucial questions about the shifting meaning of race, citizenship, and nationality for transborder migrants amidst rec...

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Qing Tingting Liu @bardjester.bsky.social · Mar 19

Honored to share that our paper, co-authored with Professor Angie Chung, “The Reconstruction of the Cosmopolitan Imaginary: Chinese International Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic”, published in @socioinquiry.bsky.social, is among the Top 10 Most-Cited Papers of 2023!

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Qing Tingting Liu @bardjester.bsky.social · Feb 5

两年后的2019年8月，在纽约参加ASA时与李姐重逢，一起推着双胞胎二少和三少逛中央公园……
这是来美国读博故事中很重要的一部分
I am so glad that I took photos and made notes about some of the most significant moments from the past.