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 Singapore, China and Myanmar 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 EDITORIAL & EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIPS OF INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS AND BOOK SERIES 2015-present Board Member Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography Singapore Editorial Board Member Citizenship Studies Cambridge, Mass, United States 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 15 April 2013 Page 1 of 5
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 China, Myanmar and Singapore. Her current research focuses on three areas: transnational ageing and care ethics in the Asia-Pacific, African student migration to China, and border mobilities between Myanmar and China. Prior to joining NUS, she was a lecturer at the University of Leeds. She completed her PhD at University College London, after which she was awarded postdoctoral fellowships at Royal Holloway University of London and the University of British Columbia. Dr Ho serves on the editorial boards of Citizenship Studies, Emotions, Society and Space, and the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. She is also an international member of the ESRC Peer Review College in the United Kingdom. She was an ARI associate previously and commenced a joint appointment (ARI and Geography) from 1 June 2016. CONFERENCES ORGANISED WHILE AT ARI 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 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 RESEARCH PROJECTS / PROGRAMMES / INITIATIVES & COLLABORATIONS 09/2016 to 08/2017 Migration and Ageing: Comparative Perspectives* PI Elaine Ho Co-PI Professor Magdelena Nowicka National University of Singapore and Humboldt-Universit t zu erlin Profile Partnership For a Workshop on Migration and Ageing: Comparative Perspectives in Asia and Beyond, 9-10 January 2017 04/2016 to 09/2017 Ageing, Care Circulation and Transnational Care Ethics PI Elaine Ho Collaborators: Associate Professors Shirlena Huang and Thang Leng Leng, and Professor Brenda Yeoh TEACHING, STUDENTS SUPERVISION For teaching: Transnationalism and Society: Comparative Spaces GE6222 15 April 2013 Page 2 of 5
2011-present Geographies of Life and Death GE2206 For supervision: 2011-present MA and PhD thesis Five since 2011 PUBLICATIONS Edited Book 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, Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 318-326 [Section editor] Ho, E.L.E., Woon C.Y. and Ramdas, K. (eds.) (2013) Changing Landscapes of Singapore: Old Tensions, New Discoveries, Singapore: NUS Press Book Chapter 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 Ho, E.L.E. (2014) Citizenship, in. Warf (ed) Oxford Bibliographies in Geography, New York: Oxford University Press, DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199874002-0089 (electronic resource) 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 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, Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 327-341 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 Ho, E.L.E. (2013) The Singaporean diaspora landscape, in E.L.E. Ho, C.Y. Woon and K. Ramdas (eds.) Changing Landscapes of Singapore: Old Tensions, New Discoveries, Singapore: NUS Press, pp. 158-176 Ho, E.L.E. (2013) Introduction: Rediscovering Singapore s changing landscapes, in E.L.E. Ho, C.Y. Woon and K. Ramdas (eds.) Changing Landscapes of Singapore: Old Tensions, New Discoveries, Singapore: NUS Press, pp. 1-21 Ho, E.L.E. (2013) Identity politics and cultural asymmetries: Singaporean transmigrants fashioning cosmopolitanism in.s.a. Yeoh and S. Huang (eds.) The Cultural Politics of Talent Migration in East Asia, London: Routledge, pp. 46-63 Ho, E.L.E. (2013) Multiculturalism, immigrant perspectives and onward emigration: Ethnic minorities in Canada and Singapore, in E. Fong, N. Lee and N. Denton (eds.) Immigrant Adaptation in Multi-Ethnic Societies: Canada, Taiwan, and the United States, New York: 15 April 2013 Page 3 of 5
Routledge, pp. 159-169 Refereed Article Ho, E.L.E. (forthcoming 2016) Incongruent migration categorisations and competing citizenship claims: Return and hypermigration in transnational migration circuits, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Ho, E.L.E. (forthcoming 2016) The geo-social and global geographies of power: Urban aspirations of worlding African students in China, Geopolitics [Online First] 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 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 Ho, E.L.E. (2015) Transnational identities, multiculturalism or assimilation? China s refugeereturnees and generational transitions, Modern Asian Studies, 49(2), pp. 525-545 Ho, E.L.E., oyle, M. and Yeoh,.S.A. (2014) Recasting diaspora strategies through feminist care ethics, Geoforum, 59, pp. 206-214 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 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 Ho, E.L.E. and Ley, D. (2013) Middling Chinese returnees or new immigrants from Canada? The ambiguity of return migration and countervailing claims to modernity, Asian Studies Review, 38(1), pp. 36-52 Ho, E.L.E. (2013) Refugee or returnee? The ethnic geopolitics of diasporic resettlement in China and intergenerational change, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 38(4), pp. 599-611 Ho, E.L.E. (2013) Juggling citizenships for transnational familyhood: Mainland Chinese immigrants in Canada and their 'return' migration to China, Oñati Socio-Legal Series [Online international peer-reviewed journal], http://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/index Ho, E.L.E. (2011) Claiming the diaspora: Sending state strategies, elite mobility and the spatialities of citizenship, Progress in Human Geography, 35(6), pp. 757-772 Ho, E.L.E. (2011) Caught between two worlds: Mainland Chinese return migration, hukou considerations and the citizenship dilemma, Citizenship Studies, 15(6-7), pp. 643-658 Ho, E.L.E. (2011) Migration trajectories of highly skilled middling transnationals: Singaporean transmigrants in London, Population, Space and Place, 17(1), pp. 116-129. Ho, E.L.E. (2011) Identity politics and cultural asymmetries: Singaporean transmigrants fashioning cosmopolitanism, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 37(5), pp. 729-746 15 April 2013 Page 4 of 5
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 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 Robertson, S. and Ho, E.L.E. (forthcoming 2016) Temporalities, materialities and connecting locales: Mobile subjects and Asia-Pacific cities, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Ho, E.L.E., Hickey, M. and Yeoh,.S.A. (2015) Special issue introduction: New research directions and critical perspectives on diaspora strategies, Geoforum, 59, pp. 153-158 Hickey, M., Ho, E.L.E. and Yeoh,.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 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 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 Ho, E.L.E. and Hatfield, M. (2011) Migration and everyday matters: Sociality and materiality, Population, Space and Place, 17(6), pp. 707-713 15 April 2013 Page 5 of 5