Biography isabelle kaohsiung

Biography

I received my PhD in politics and International Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) . I am currently serving as the Secretary-General of the European Association of Taiwan Studies. I am Research Associate of the SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies. I also serve on the Advisory Board of the European Research Centre for Contemporary Taiwan at the University of Tubingen.

My research has been focusing on the marriage migration from China and Southeast Asian to Taiwan. Examining migrant women’s subjective understanding of the citizenship legislation, their use of the Chinese language in the everyday life and their experiences in motherhood, I argue that, from being an outsider, a migrant woman may become an ‘in-between’ in her relationship with the host Taiwanese state, as she transits from being a daughter to a wife and mother after migration. Later expanding to include labour migration into my study, my research has also investigated Taiwan’s claim to multiculturalism and sovereignty, its self-image of protecting migrants’ human right

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