Thank you, Yanze! They all came out coincidentally around the same time haha

It argues instead that cultivating cosmopolitan practices is crucial to resisting nationalism and building solidarities across borders.

Read more here (open access): doi.org/10.1093/socp...

Both reflect migrant students’ struggles with discrimination, mobility, and gendered adversity, with consequences for mental health.

By showing how cosmopolitanism can be practiced deliberately—or forced as adaptation—this study challenges the idea that global citizenship is only about privilege.

Drawing on interviews with 60 Chinese international students in the U.S., I identify two pathways:
🤝Activist cosmopolitanism: grounded in moral engagement and collective action.
✍️Cynical cosmopolitanism: marked by skepticism, detachment, and individual coping.

Congrats, Daniel!!

Instead, I show how political avoidance emerges across regimes, shaped not only by regime type but by the structure of political taboos—whether centralized or dispersed, shifting or defined, state-imposed or socially enforced.

In China’s forbidden zone, state-imposed taboos foster habitual avoidance; in the U.S. landmine zone, decentralized and socially enforced taboos push students to adopt new evasive tactics. The study challenges the assumption that authoritarianism and democracy produce opposite political behaviors.

The study asks why migrants from authoritarian countries often continue to avoid politics after moving to democratic contexts. Drawing on interviews with Chinese students in the U.S. and China, I identify three strategies of avoidance: pragmatic disengagement, veiled allegiance, & closeted activism.