Christina Kefala gave an interview and was quoted in The Australian Broadcasting Corporation website about the foreign entrepreneurs and businesses in China during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Christina Kefala published an online article on the American Ethnologists website titled "An Ethnographic Encounter With "White" AI" on November 26, 2022.
Dr. Shanshan Lan participated in a roundtable discussion as a panelist in a Late-Breaking virtual session for the 2022 AAA Annual Meeting, Unsettling Landscapes on November 9 2022. The title of her presentation is: The transnational circulation of whiteness in China’s ELT industry.
Researching Whiteness in a Transnational Pandemic Context
Organisers: the ChinaWhite research team (www.china-white.org), Department of Anthropology/AISSR, University of Amsterdam
Location: REC B 5.12
With the rise of Asian economies, more and more white westerners are moving to Asia to look for business and job opportunities. The outbreak of Covid-19 in China in early 2020 and its development into a global pandemic not only posed challenges to transnational mobility for various groups of migrants, but significantly restricted onsite research activities. It pushes us to ask new questions addressing the intersection of race, class, gender, nationality, language, and other demarcations of social inequalities, which have been both highlighted and contested by the global spread of Covid-19.
The ChinaWhite phds have compiled an online bibliography, which includes entries such as "race in English language teaching," "race in visual cultures," and "race in business and entrepreneurship." It also contains hyperlinks to useful online resources regarding the theme of race, migration and mobility. Please click HERE to access the bibliography.
Dr. Shanshan Lan had an interview with Network for Research into Chinese Education Mobilities on her two recent publications: one about rural-origin Chinese students in South Korea, the other on privileges and precariousness among white English teachers in China. Listen to the podcast by clicking here.
Christina Kefala wrote a magazine article for Sixth Tone on January 20, 2021. The article is about young Chinese consumers and why they prefer to consume Chinese fashion items and products from local businesses and brands instead of western ones.
Raviv Litman wrote a magazine article for Sixth Tone on August 26, 2021. The article is about the Filipino teachers who were experiencing a higher degree of job insecurity because of new education technology regulations in China.
Dr. Shanshan Lan participated in a panel discussion on racialized encountered in contemporary China, organized by the Oxford University Chinese-Africa Network on March 25, 2021. The other two panelists are Prof. Adams Bodomo and Dr. Roberto Castillo.
You can watch the panel discussion on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_XjCREJb2Y (Part one)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZX-Xds_Tho (part two)
INVITATION FOR PUBLIC LECTURE
“Because I am a Foreigner”: White Migrants’ Navigations of the Chinese State
Prof. Pauline Leonard (University of Southampton)
Date and Time: 18 May, 6 pm
Venue: Zoom
You can view the talk on youtube