Brenda S. A. Yeoh

Brenda S.A. Yeoh is Raffles Professor of Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Research Leader of the Asian Migration Cluster at the Asia Research Institute, NUS. Her research interests range from the politics of space in colonial and postcolonial cities, to migration studies in Asia. Her work has contributed to themes such as cosmopolitanism and highly skilled talent migration; gender, care migration, social reproduction and the migration industry; globalising universities and international student mobilities; and cultural politics, family dynamics and international marriage migrants. She has published widely in geography and migration studies journals and her recent books include Asian Migrants and Religious Experience: From Missionary Journeys to Labor Mobility (Amsterdam University Press, 2018 with B. Brown), Handbook of Asian Migrations (Routledge, 2018 with G. Liu-Farrer) and Student Mobilities and International Education in Asia: Emotional Geographies of Knowledge Spaces (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, with R. Sidhu and K.C. Ho).

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