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Karen Liao

@karliao.bsky.social
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Lecturer, Geography @uni_newcastle. Prev Senior Researcher @PRIOresearch, PhD @NUSgeog. Researching geographies of migration and im/mobilities, Asia.

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Karen Liao @karliao.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New paper out in JEMS 📝 A contribution to an SI on transnational social protection edited by Ken Sun, Peggy Levitt and Lake Lui 🌏 Available OA: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Resource environments in labour disruptions: how temporary migrant workers access transnational social protection in troubled times
In temporary migration in Asia, labour disruptions that migrant workers face in host countries have raised critical questions about how migrants secure transnational social protection. While resear...
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Karen Liao @karliao.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
📝 New paper out in International Migration Review! We develop “comfortable immobility” to show how staying put matters in families’ upward mobility trajectories. With @bivanderdal 🌏 Available open access ✨ doi.org/10.1177/0197...
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Karen Liao @karliao.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Sharing the video abstract of my paper, published in IMR! 📝 This is part of a video abstract series by the amazing @jorgencarling.bsky.social and Maria Helena Chavez, started in late 2024. Thanks, PRIO Migration Centre @prioresearch.bsky.social for the opportunity to share my work!
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What happens when a crisis forces migrants to go home? – PRIO Migration Centre
Karen Liao gives a two-minute summary of insights.
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Karen Liao @karliao.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
My paper on repatriation has been ranked among the top 10% of most-viewed papers published in International Migration in 2023 — a wonderful surprise to start the week! 😀 Link to the article here: doi.org/10.1111/imig...
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Karen Liao @karliao.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
It’s out! ⭐️ ‘Tita Nurse’ is an animated story by PositiveNegatives and the Peace Research Institute Oslo, based on #MigrationRhythms research in Manila 🇵🇭😊 It follows the journey of a Filipino nurse who works abroad to support her family back home, told through the eyes of her nephew.
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Migration Rhythms Stories: Manila
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Megha Amrith @meghaamrith.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
📢PhD Vacancy in my new ERC project ‘WELL-ASIA’ @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social on the wellness industry in Southeast Asia! The PhD will work ethnographically on transnational labour mobilities in Singapore’s wellness sector 🌏Applications due April 16! vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
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PhD candidate in Transnational Labour Mobilities in Southeast Asia
PhD candidate in Transnational Labour Mobilities in Southeast Asia
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Josh Inwood @geogjosh.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
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Karen Liao @karliao.bsky.social · 21/02/2024
📣Deadline extended! ⭐️ CfP for @RGS_IBG 2024: Interfacing #migration, development and urbanisation in Global South cities 🌐🏙️ Sponsored by @DevGeogsRG & #PopulationGeographyRG. If interested, please submit abstract by 25 Feb. Details and abstract submission here: ➡️forms.office.com/e/qvKeahAtRS
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Karen Liao @karliao.bsky.social · 15/02/2024
📣 Less than a week left!✨CfP for @RGS_IBG 2024: Interfacing migration, development and urbanisation in Global South cities 🌐🏙️ (in-person session) - We welcome submissions from PhD students and ECRs. If interested, check out the details! ➡️ forms.office.com/e/qvKeahAtRS
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Karen Liao @karliao.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
📣CfP #RGS-IBG 2024: Interfacing migration, development & urbanisation in Global South cities 🏙️✨Including rural-urban (im)mobility interactions; Internal migration and urbanisation; Property ownership and middleclassness. If interested, please see the details here! ➡️forms.office.com/e/qvKeahAtRS
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Karen Liao @karliao.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
🏙💡How do the growth of urban middle classes and ‘development’ connect? We discussed this with experiences from cities in Ethiopia and Vietnam, and #MigrationRhythms insights from #Asia 🌏 Education, consumption and #migration play crucial roles. 🎓 🛒 🛫 Tune in to learn more! ➡️ www.prio.org/events/9076
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Karen Liao @karliao.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
📝😀 New publication based on my PhD research! In this JEMS article, I use geographical work on assemblage thinking to examine how the exit stage of emergency repatriation for Filipino migrants workers is constructed and reconfigured by state, non-state and migrant actors in host countries.🛬🇵🇭
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Assembling exits and returns: the extraterritorial production of repatriation for Filipino migrant w...
Research on the extraterritorial processes of migration governance has developed a strong focus on immigration states’ externalisation management and the diaspora strategies of emigration states. I....
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