Research Interests

My research journey started from an urban indigenous community in Taiwan in 1996. This laid the foundation for my interests in black feminism and the intersection of gender, class and ethnicity. I have then pursuit a master degree in the department of Sociology, University of Essex, U.K. My Master Dissertation is on Filipina Domestic Workers. I attempted to provide in-depth analysis of my own culture, and finished my Ph.D. thesis in 2003, Transforming Patriarchal Kinship Relations in Taiwan: Four Generations of Modern Women in Taiwan, 1900-1999. With a motivation to gain in-depth history in Taiwan, I have undertaken a project investigating the relationships between class, gender and generations alone lines with the development of domestic technology during industrialization.

After returning to Taiwan and settled down at Graduate Institute of Gender Studies in Kaohsiung Medical University in 2004, I started to co-operate with local women’s NGOs and encourage students to engage in community activism. During this time, I worked on empowering programs with marriage migrants, participated on oral history project of indigenous gay and lesbians, and writing up with my friends on politics of polyamory.

Meanwhile, I start to regain my interests to work in the field of migration. The next stage, I will work with and research on female marriage migrants, to make research fun, inspiring and empowering.