
Karen Liao
@karliao
Geographer | Senior Researcher @PRIOresearch | Migration, im/mobilities, Asia, the Philippines | PhD @NUSgeog
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04-10-2008 09:50:15
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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."



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



📣 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…


