Karen Liao
@karliao.bsky.social
Geographer. Senior Researcher @PRIOresearch . Researching geographies of migration and im/mobilities, Asia. PhD @NUSgeog
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!
What happens when a crisis forces migrants to go home? – PRIO Migration Centre
Karen Liao gives a two-minute summary of insights.
migration.prio.org
October 29, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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!
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...
April 21, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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...
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.
Migration Rhythms Stories: Manila
YouTube video by Peace Research Institute Oslo
youtu.be
February 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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.
Reposted by Karen Liao
📢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...
PhD candidate in Transnational Labour Mobilities in Southeast Asia
PhD candidate in Transnational Labour Mobilities in Southeast Asia
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl
February 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
📢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...
Reposted by Karen Liao
November 11, 2024 at 4:57 PM
📣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
February 21, 2024 at 12:32 PM
📣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
📣 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
February 15, 2024 at 8:56 AM
📣 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
📣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
February 1, 2024 at 10:07 AM
📣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
🏙💡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
November 24, 2023 at 10:51 AM
🏙💡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
📝😀 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.🛬🇵🇭
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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November 22, 2023 at 10:13 AM
📝😀 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.🛬🇵🇭