Team Members
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Lucia Lo is a Professor Emerita and Senior Scholar of geography at York University, Canada. Her research focuses on the role of immigrants in economic development and urban transformation. Trained as an economic geographer in the spatial science tradition at McMaster University and the University of Toronto, she has brought innovative perspectives to examining immigrant integration and settlement issues which results in ground-breaking work on the geographies of immigrant consumption and settlement services. Having received >$1 million of personal grants and ≈$4 million of collaborative grants, she has trained many students and contributed to numerous academic publications.
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Min-Jung Kwak is an economic and social geographer with broad research interests in immigration and settlement studies. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia and is now an Associate Professor at Saint Mary’s University, Canada. She has conducted research on the international education industry, immigrant entrepreneurship, and transnational education migrant family experiences. More recently, her research foci include the cross-border dynamics of intellectual migration and the accessibility and transnational dimension of immigrant healthcare services. Dr. Kwak has worked with various immigrant groups in major Canadian cities but developed more significant research partnerships with Korean-Canadian and Chinese-Canadian communities.
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Wei Li received her geography BSc and MSc degrees in Beijing, China; and her Ph.D. in geography at the University of Southern California. She is a Professor at the Asian Pacific American Studies / School of Social Transformation, and School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning; and a Senior Sustainability Scientist in the Arizona State University, USA. Her foci of research are immigration and integration, and transnational connections, focusing on the Pacific Rim. She is the author or [co-]editor or [co-]translator of seven scholarly books, three journal theme issues, and has 146 other academic publications.
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Yixi Lu is an Associate Professor of sociology at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China. She received her BA in Sociology in Beijing, China, and completed her MA and Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Her foci of research include international migration and integration, immigration policy, education, immigrants’ health, and healthcare experiences, Chinese diaspora, and China studies. Dr. Lu is presently conducting research on returnees and foreigners in China, the immigration policies in China, and China’s talent programs.
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Zheng Lu is an Associate Professor at the School of Economics, Sichuan University, China. He received his BSc in management at Southwest University, China, and Ph.D. in economics at Sichuan University, China; and was trained as a postdoc at Sabanci University, Turkey. His research focuses on regional specialization and regional economic policy, community-based economic development, and human capital mobility.
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Ling Ma is an Associate Professor at the School of Geographical Sciences, Guangzhou University, China. She received her BA in English Literature and Economics at Nankai University, China, MA in Sociology at Albert-Ludwigs- Universität Freiburg, Germany, and Ph.D. in tourism management at Sun Yat-Sen University, China. Her research focuses on urban amenities and urban development, and high-level talent returnees.
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The Art Team
Alicia Filipowich, York Centre for Asian Research
Guanglong Pang (formerly York University), Michigan State University
Yasir Hameed, York University
Mo Li, Saint Mary’s University
Yining Tan, Arizona State University