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Excited to share our blogpost: Facing imbalances in global knowledge co-creation. Goals of equitable collaboration & realities of imperfect solutions. #MigrationRhythms reflections from Hanoi, Karachi, Manila, Mumbai. With Karen Liao @HansenArve & more 🙏🏽 blogs.prio.org/2024/03/facing…

Asian cities like Manila 🇵🇭 are witnessing a rise in middle class populations. But what do residents think about being or becoming middle class, and does migration matter? Join us at PRIO for a seminar with the Ambassador of the Philippines in Oslo, and PRIO's Karen Liao &

A new labor #migration #research article by Karen Liao considers how temporary reintegration unfolds at the intersection of involuntary return and immobility in the lives of #Filipino migrant workers. PRIO NUS Geography Sage Journals buff.ly/3Xv59Vc

What makes a migrant’s return sometimes so fleeting and temporary? Sharing Karen Liao’s important work on reintegration - an understudied aspect of the migration journey.

Love this new article by Karen Liao where she argued that "reintegration was not an end goal, but a liminal phase in which the migrant workers straddled between coping with their forced return and immobility, and their enduring aspirations and intentions to leave."

What are perceptions of being & becoming middle class in urban Asia? Does #migration matter? #MigrationRhythms research on upward social mobility in #Asia 🌟 🔎 Middle classes, moving & staying in Metro #Manila & in #Hanoi 🏍️📚 prio.org/publications/1… & prio.org/publications/1…

Excited for our sessions #93 & #117 ✅ Moving, Staying, Leaving: On the Interaction of Migration and Social Mobility in Asia, Africa and South America 🌍🌎 #IMISCOE2024 Wed 3 July (10.50 & 14.50). Join us if in Lisbon! 🌟Please reach out if interested, but not participating ✍️🙏🏾

IMISCOE Lisbon, 4 July — Proud of Marla Asis of Scalabrini Migration as she delivered an inspiring and thought-provoking semi-plenary speech on the reflexive turn in migration studies, based on her experiences doing research in Asia.

Karen Liao considers the phenomenon of temp. reintegration, which, for Filipino #migrant workers, takes place at the intersection of involuntary return & immobility, & suggests that it can be understood as a “grey window of return.” PRIO International Migration Review (IMR) buff.ly/3Xv59Vc

CFP I Theorizing Migration and Social Mobility in Asia and Beyond I 03 Apr 2025 - 04 Apr 2025 | Hybrid I Due: 15/10/2024 I Convenors: Brenda S.A. Yeoh FASS NUS, Dr Wei Yang, ARI NUS, Marta Bivand Erdal & Karen Liao PRIO buff.ly/4dP3gHJ

If in London for #RGSIBG2024, do join our sessions, ‘Interfacing #migration, development & urbanisation in Global South cities’ (Thur, 09.00-10.40 & 11.10-12.50, RGS Nightingale mtn room) 🌏 Incl. #MigrationRhythms papers on destination cities, food, ACs & Asian middle classes 🏍️

📣 Co-organising this workshop on migration and social mobility with Marta Bivand Erdal and the ARI team (Brenda Yeoh and Wei Yang). Please check out and consider submitting an abstract!😊

Mumbai: A city of opportunities and contrasts. With Asia driving the global middle-class boom, this animation with PositiveNegatives dives into diverse migration stories in the Indian metropolis. ▶️Now on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=pfe_MU… Hindi version⤵️ positivenegatives.org/story/migratio…

We all stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. This animation, created with PositiveNegatives, follows three generations of a family in Karachi, Pakistan—told through the story of a single home. 🎥Watch now youtube.com/watch?v=pSznxC… Urdu version⤵️ positivenegatives.org/story/migratio…

How does migration shape the lives of women and their families in search of a good life? Based on research by the #MigrationRhythms project at PRIO ⭐️

It's out! The Manila comic featuring the work of Filipino artist Renren Galeno, and voiceover by EJ Espino 🙌 Based on #MigrationRhythms research in the PH. 🇵🇭 Touching stories from interviewees about how much they appreciate the care and support of their titas (aunts) abroad.

So proud to have been the voice for something very near and dear to my heart! ♥️🇵🇭 Check out this comic about the realities of migration for OFWs. Absolutely wonderful to have collaborated with some of the coolest and most talented folks! Available in both English and Tagalog!