Qing Tingting Liu
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Qing Tingting Liu
@bardjester.bsky.social
PhD candidate & Adjunct Lecturer in Sociology @UAlbany; Pre-doctoral fellow @CCSYale; ACRH @UniMelb; Research Interests: gender & migration, race & ethnicity, culture, theory https://qingttliu.com
Also very grateful to serve as a discussant for another inspiring panel, “Reimagining Identity, Diaspora, and Cultural Practices in the Chinese World.” Learned so much from all the panelists. What an intellectually nourishing weekend!
October 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I have been inspired by so much of your work and feel empowered to engage in these conversations through my own research as well!
October 17, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Thank you so much for sharing this work @yangyangcheng.bsky.social 🧡
October 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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September 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
August 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
As a Ph.D. candidate on the job market, I deeply appreciate the energy, care, encouragement, support, and friendship you all shared. I look forward to crossing paths again in the near future😊
August 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Beck’s theory offers a powerful framework for demonstrating how the process of ‘forging one’s own fate’ (Beck 1992, 135) enables Chinese WHMs to moderate, subvert, or nullify the limitations of their domestic environment through transnational mobility.
August 6, 2025 at 4:32 AM
3. Reembedding—’Being yourself’ became central to their decision to stay in Australia beyond the program’s end, as they found greater physical, social, mental, and emotional space in Australia compared to China.
August 6, 2025 at 4:32 AM
2. Disembedding—They did not identify with mainstream ‘common sense’ in China, rejecting expectations of (1) collectivism and uniformity, (2) interpersonal relations in the work- place, and (3) gender norms and heteronormativity.
August 6, 2025 at 4:31 AM
1. Disenchantment—Many participants described feeling lost in the pre-migration context, uncertain about their career, identity, and future direction.
August 6, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Based on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork and life-story interviews with 30 Chinese WHMs in Australia, I apply Ulrich Beck’s (1992) theory of triple individualization to conceptualize working holiday migration as a biographical response to institutional failure in their country of origin.
August 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM