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.
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