PERSONAL PARTICULARS Full Name : Dr Elaine Ho Lynn-Ee EDUCATION PhD (Geography) University College London Bachelor of Social Sciences (Honours) National University of Singapore PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2011 - present Associate Professor, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore Research on migration and citizenship in China, Myanmar and Singapore Research on ageing, transnationalism and care in the Asia-Pacific (focusing on Australia, China, Myanmar and Singapore) Teaching modules on population geography and transnationalism 2010-2011 Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Leeds Research on ethnically privileged migration in China Taught courses in social geography and transnationalism 2008-2010 Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia Research on Chinese immigration to Canada and return migration to China Taught courses in urban geography, research methods and migration 2007-2008 ESRC postdoctoral fellow, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London Research on overseas Singaporeans in the United Kingdom CONSULTANCY EXPERIENCE OR SERVICES RENDERED Community and home-based care for older adults in Singapore, for the Lien Foundation, 2017-2018 EDITORIAL & EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIPS OF INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS AND BOOK SERIES 2019 - present Editor Social and Cultural Geography London, United Kingdom 2017 - present Section editor International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (2 nd edition to be published in 2020) 2015 - present Board Member Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography Singapore 2014 - present Editorial Board Member Citizenship Studies Cambridge, Mass, United States 8 February 2019 Page 1 of 6
2014 - present Editorial Board Member Emotions, Space and Society Amsterdam, Netherlands OFFICIAL POSITIONS HELD IN ACADEMIC / PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES 2015 - present International member ESRC Peer Review College London, United Kingdom SHORT BIOGRAPHY Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho is Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore (NUS). Her research addresses how citizenship is changing as a result of migration. She has conducted research in Australia, Canada, China, Myanmar and Singapore. Her current research focuses on two areas: ageing, transnationalism and care in the Asia- Pacific, and border mobilities between Myanmar and China. Dr Ho is Editor of the journal, Social and Cultural Geography, and Section Editor of the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (2 nd edition to be published in 2020). She serves on the editorial boards of Citizenship Studies, Emotions, Society and Space, and the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. She was an ARI associate previously and commenced a joint appointment (ARI and Geography) from 1 June 2016. During her time at ARI she will be carrying out research on ageing, transnationalism and care. CONFERENCES ORGANISED WHILE AT ARI 9-10 January 2017 Migration and Ageing in the Asia-Pacific and Europe Associate Professor Elaine Ho and Professor Magdalena Nowicka 5-6 November 2012 Workshop on The Diaspora Strategies of Migrant-Sending Countries: Migration-As- Development Reinvented Dr Maureen Hickey and Professor Brenda Yeoh KEYNOTES & PLENARIES *Plenary speaker for a conference on Diaspora and Diplomacy at the Clinton Institute, University College Dublin, 24-26 May 2018 *Keynote speaker for the Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) 6 th Global Social Science Graduate Student Conference, 20 April 2018 Keynote lecture and panellist for the Chinese Geographical Society Summer School, Kunming, 16-20 July 2015 Keynote lecture for a workshop on Translocal Spatial Practices, Urban Transformations, organised by the University of Freiburg, Germany, February 2015 Keynote lecture for a workshop on Cities, Mobile Subjects and Transformations in Citizenship, organised by the University of Western Sydney, 17-18 April 2014 8 February 2019 Page 2 of 6
RESEARCH PROJECTS / PROGRAMMES / INITIATIVES & COLLABORATIONS *01/2018 to 01/2021 Transnational Relations, Ageing and Care Ethics (TRACE) Co-PI A/P Shirlena Huang, A/P Thang Leng Leng, Professor Brenda Yeoh Ministry of Education Tier 2 grant *12/2017 to 02/2019 Emotion, Space and Place in a Global Hub PI Dr Tanya Jakimow and Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra Co- and Dr Bittiandra Chand Somaiah University of New South Wales Collaborative Research Scheme *04/2017 to 03/2020 Integrating internal and international migration through the geographies of humanitarianism at the China-Myanmar border Ministry of Education Tier 1 grant 09/2016 to 08/2017 Migration and Ageing: Comparative Perspectives* Co-PI Professor Magdelena Nowicka National University of Singapore (NUS) and Humboldt-Universita t zu Berlin Profile Partnership 04/2016 to 09/2017 Ageing, Care Circulation and Transnational Care Ethics Collaborators: A/P Shirlena Huang, A/P Thang Leng Leng, Professor Brenda Yeoh NUS Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Seed Fund TEACHING, STUDENTS SUPERVISION For teaching: 2014 - present Transnationalism and Society: Comparative Spaces GE6222 Department of Geography, National University of Singapore 2011 - present Geographies of Life and Death GE2206 Department of Geography, National University of Singapore For supervision: 2011 - present MA and PhD supervision Five since 2011 Department of Geography, National University of Singapore PUBLICATIONS Authored Book and Monograph 1. *Ho, E.L.E. (2019) Citizens in Motion: Emigration, Immigration and Re-migration Across China s Borders, Stanford University Press 2. *Ho, E.L.E. and Huang, S. (2018) Care Where You Are: Enabling Singaporeans to Age Well in Place, Singapore: Straits Times Press 8 February 2019 Page 3 of 6
Edited Book 1. Ho, E.L.E. (2014) Introduction: Immigration, emigration and return migration in Singapore, in Y. Chan, D. Haines and J. Lee (eds.) The Age of Asian Migrations, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 318-326 [Section editor] Book Chapter 1. *Ho, E.L.E. and Lim, M. (2018) Diaspora engagement and state policies of return migration in Asia, in G. Liu-Farrer and B.S.A. Yeoh (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Asian Migrations, New York: Routledge 2. *Ho, E.L.E. (2018) Futures elsewhere: African student migrants in China, in T. Bunnell and D. Goh (eds.) Urban Asia: Essays on Futurity Past and Present, Berlin: Jovis 3. *Ho, E.L.E. and Foo, F.Y. (2017) Debating integration in Singapore, deepening variegations of the Chinese diaspora, in M. Zhou (ed) Chinese Diasporas of the 21st Century, Singapore: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 105-125 4. *Ho, E.L.E. (2017) Cosmopolitanism dispositions: Cultivating affinity ties, in K.S. Loh, P.J. Thum and J. Chia (eds.) Living with Myths in Singapore, Singapore: Ethos Books, pp. 191-198 5. *Ho, E.L.E. (2017) Reflections on panel 2: Cohesive diversity: plural identities, multiplying diversity, in S.S. Teng and J. Wee (eds.) Singapore Perspectives 2016: We, Singapore: World Scientific, pp. 131-135 6. *Ho, E.L.E. (2016) China s diaspora and return migration, in R. Iredale and F. Guo (eds.) Handbook of Chinese Migration, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 199-214 7. Ho, E.L.E. (2014) Citizenship, in B. Warf (ed) Oxford Bibliographies in Geography, New York: Oxford University Press, DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199874002-0089 (electronic resource) 8. Ho, E.L.E. (2014) Reconstructing Singapore as a cosmopolitan landscape: The geographies of migration and its social divisions that extend into the heartlands, in N. Vasu and S.Y. Yeap and W.L. Chan (eds.) Visiting the Immigration Issue in Singapore, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 115-128 9. Ho, E.L.E and Lin, W. (2014) The desirability of Asia: Logics and geographies of return migration by Singaporean transmigrants in diaspora, in Y. Chan, D. Haines and J. Lee (eds.) The Age of Asian Migrations, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 327-341 10. Ho, E.L.E. (2014) China as the protector of co-ethnics in distress: Changing episodes of human security vulnerabilities over space and time, in J. Song and A. Cooke (eds.) Irregular Migration and Human Security, London: Routledge, pp. 55-67 Refereed Article 1. *Ho, E.L.E. and McConnell, F.M. (in-press) Conceptualising diaspora diplomacy : Territory and populations betwixt the domestic and foreign, Progress in Human Geography, *https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132517740217. 2. *Ho, E.L.E. (2018) Interfaces and the politics of humanitarianism: Kachin internal displacement at the China-Myanmar border, Journal of Refugee Studies, 31(3), 407-425. 8 February 2019 Page 4 of 6
3. *Ho, E.L.E. (2018) African student migrants in China: Negotiating the global geographies of power through gastronomic practices and culture, Food, Culture and Society, 21(1), pp. 9-24 4. *Bunnell, T., Gillen, J. and Ho, E.L.E. (2018) The prospect of elsewhere: Engaging the future through aspirations in Asia, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 108, pp. 35-51. 5. *Ramdas, K., Ho, E.L.E. and Woon, C.Y. (2017) Changing landscapes as text: Geography and national education in Singapore, Area, 50, 50 54 6. *Ho, E.L.E. (2017) Mobilising affinity ties: Kachin internal displacement and the geographies of humanitarianism at the China-Myanmar border, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 42, pp. 84-97 7. *Ho, E.L.E. (2017) The geo-social and global geographies of power: Urban aspirations of worlding African students in China, Geopolitics, 22, pp. 15-33 8. *Boyle, M. and Ho, E.L.E. (2017) Sovereign power, biopower and the reach of the West in an age of diaspora-centred development, Antipode, 49, pp. 577-596 9. Ho, E.L.E. (2016) Incongruent migration categorisations and competing citizenship claims: Return and hypermigration in transnational migration circuits, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 42, pp. 2379-2394 10. Ho, E.L.E. (2016) The geo-social and global geographies of power: Urban aspirations of worlding African students in China, Geopolitics, 22(1), pp. 15-33 11. Ho, E.L.E. and Lynette J. Chua (2016) Law and race in the citizenship spaces of Myanmar: Spatial strategies and the political subjectivity of the Burmese-Chinese, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 39(5), pp. 896-916 12. Ho, E.L.E. and Boyle, M. (2015) Migration-as-development repackaged? The globalising imperative of the Singaporean state s diaspora strategy, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 36(2), pp. 164-182 13. Ho, E.L.E. (2015) Transnational identities, multiculturalism or assimilation? China s refugee-returnees and generational transitions, Modern Asian Studies, 49(2), pp. 525-545. 14. Ho, E.L.E., Boyle, M. and Yeoh, B.S.A. (2014) Recasting diaspora strategies through feminist care ethics, Geoforum, 59, pp. 206-214 15. Ho, E.L.E. (2014) The emotional economy of migration driving Mainland Chinese transnational sojourning across migration regimes, Environment and Planning A, 46(9), pp. 2212-2227 16. Ho, E.L.E. (2014) Stories that refuse to be told: Singaporean wives, foreign husbands and the citizenship terrain, Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific [Online international peer-reviewed journal], http://intersections.anu.edu.au Working Paper Series *Ho, E.L.E., Madokoro, L. and Peterson, G.P. (2015) Refugees, displacement and forced migration in Asia: Charting an inclusive research agenda, Asia Research Institute Working Paper Series No. 236 8 February 2019 Page 5 of 6
ANY OTHER INFORMATION Progress in Human Geography Essay Prize 2012 for Claiming the diaspora: Sending state strategies, elite mobility and the spatialities of citizenship, awarded by Progress in Human Geography. Edited journal special issues 1. *Ho, E.L.E. and Robinson, C.D. (2018) Introduction: Forced migration in/of Asia, Journal of Refugee Studies, 31(3), 262-273 2. Low, K.E.Y. and Ho, E.L.E. (2018) Food and the City, Food, Culture and Society. 3. Robertson, S. and Ho, E.L.E. (2016) Temporalities, materialities and connecting locales: Mobile subjects and Asia-Pacific cities, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 42(14), pp. 2263-2271 4. Ho, E.L.E., Hickey, M. and Yeoh, B.S.A. (2015) Special issue introduction: New research directions and critical perspectives on diaspora strategies, Geoforum, 59, pp. 153-158 5. Hickey, M., Ho, E.L.E. and Yeoh, B.S.A. (2015) Introduction to the special section on establishing state-led diaspora strategies in Asia: Migration-as-development reinvented, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 36(2), pp. 139-146 6. Madokoro, L., Ho, E.L.E. and Peterson, G. (2015) Questioning the dynamics and language of forced migration in Asia: The experiences of ethnic Chinese refugees, Modern Asian Studies, 49(2), pp. 430-438 7. Ho, E.L.E., Madokoro, L. and Peterson, G. (2014) Global displacements and emplacement: The forced exile and resettlement experiences of ethnic Chinese refugees, Journal of Chinese Overseas, 10(12), pp. 131-136 8 February 2019 Page 6 of 6