Jin L. Li

Research Title

Homing to China: Transnational migrant parents from economically developed countries and their practices of parenting in Guangzhou

More about Jin

Academic Background

University College London (UCL) PhD in Human Geography (09/2019 - Present)
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) Visiting Scholar in the Hong Kong Institute of Humanities & Social Sciences (10/2022 - 11/2022)
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) MSc in Sociology (09/2016 – 12/2017)
University of York BA in Sociology (09/2013 - 06/2016)

Research Experience

Invited researcher, Institute of Urban Internationalization, Guangzhou Academy of Social Sciences, 05/2022 - 11/2022
Research Assistant, Asian Development Bank, 12/2018 - 08/2020

Other Experience

UCL Department of Geography: PhD Student-Staff Consultative Committee (SSCC) Representative (09/2019 - 10/2021);
Lead Department Student-Staff Consultative Committee (SSCC) Representative (09/2020 - 10/2021).
UCL Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences: Postgraduate Research (PGR) Representative (09/2019 - 10/2020).
Wine & Spirit Education Trust (London): Wine & Spirit Tasting Level 2: Pass and Merit (2015), Wine Tasting Level 3: Candidate (2017)
York Museum Trust (Yorkshire): Volunteer (exhibition guide, model) in York Castle Museum (07/2015 – 04/2016)

Teaching

I have taught on the following modules:

Postgraduate

Social Science Research: Methodologies and Methods (GEOG0155)
Migration and Transnationalism (GEOG0039)

Publications

Li, J. L. (2022). [Oral presentation] " “Schools do their jobs, but we are the most important”: Transnational migrant families' parenting logics and educational decisions in China", The RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2022
Greatrick, A., Al-Waeli, J., Sender, H., Maioli, S. C., Li, J. L., & Goodwin, E. (2022). Adapting to Crisis: Migration Research During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Migration and Society, 5(1), 115-123.
Li, J. L. (2021). [Oral presentation] "(Im)mobility, Bordering and Parenting: Transnational Migrant Families in Post-COVID China”, The RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2021
Li, J. (2021). [CSSCI] Infection Prevention and Control of COVID-19 in the UK: Policy Analysis and Implications [In Chinese]. Chinese Public Policy Review, vol.18, pp. 142-165.

Research Interests

My doctoral research sits at the boundary between transnational family migration, everyday parenting, social reproduction and late modernity. My research interests encompass topics related to transnational mobility, migration from the Global North to the Global South, transnational spaces, embeddedness and the geographical imagination of China as a destination for international migration. My research is mainly empirical and qualitative; they usually explore transnational family migrants residing in China (usually from economically developed countries) and Chinese emigrants overseas. I mainly draw on Bourdieu’s theory of forms of capitals, Bauman’s theory of liquid modernity, Beck and Giddens’ theory of risk, and the geographical theories of transnationalism and cosmopolitanism to inform my empirical research. Besides, I also have a long interest in Foucault's theory of discourse, knowledge and the body.