Yi'En Cheng

About

Yi'En Cheng is Lecturer at the NUS College and Associate of the Asian Migration Cluster at Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University of Singapore. Previously, he was Research Fellow at ARI (2019-2022) and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Division of Social Sciences at Yale-NUS College (2017-2019). He completed a DPhil at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, as a recipient of the Oxford Clarendon and St Peter’s Diggle Scholarship. He received a Master of Social Sciences in 2012 and a Bachelor of Social Sciences (Honours, 1st class) with a major in Geography and minor in Gender Studies in 2010, both from the National University of Singapore. Yi'En joined the Editorial Board of Global Networks in June 2022.

Work

National University of Singapore
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Lecturer

Singapore

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National University of Singapore
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Research Fellow / Dr

Singapore

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Yale-NUS College
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Postdoctoral Fellow

Singapore

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Education

University of Oxford
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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DPhil

National University of Singapore
Singapore

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Master of Social Science

National University of Singapore
Singapore

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Bachelor of Social Science

Publications

The internationalisation of education and ‘Belt and Road’ student mobilities in Southeast Asia

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Asian Population Studies

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Shifting axis of educational diplomacy: student mobilities at Vietnam-China borders

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Asian Population Studies

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Migration infrastructures and (Im)mobile lives: interruptions, failures, and repairs

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Applied Mobilities

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Migration infrastructures and (Im)mobile lives: interruptions, failures, and repairs

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Applied Mobilities

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Migration governance and higher education during a pandemic: policy (mis)alignments and international postgraduate students’ experiences in Singapore and the UK

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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Migration governance and higher education during a pandemic: policy (mis)alignments and international postgraduate students’ experiences in Singapore and the UK

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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Mapping the moral geographies of education: character, citizenship and values

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Social & Cultural Geography

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Political citizenship experiments: young people’s quotidian politics and (a)political subjectivities in East Asian liberal arts universities

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International Studies in Sociology of Education

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Political citizenship experiments: young people’s quotidian politics and (a)political subjectivities in East Asian liberal arts universities

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International Studies in Sociology of Education

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Virtual student mobility on Zoom: digital platforms and differentiated experiences of international education and (im)mobilities in a time of pandemic

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Mobilities

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Virtual student mobility on Zoom: digital platforms and differentiated experiences of international education and (im)mobilities in a time of pandemic

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Mobilities

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Infrastructuring Student Mobilities in Asia

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Routledge Handbook of Asian Transnationalism

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Asian student mobilities at the ‘edges’ of global higher education

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Globalisation, Societies and Education

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Asian student mobilities at the ‘edges’ of global higher education

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Globalisation, Societies and Education

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The ‘Soft Infrastructure' of the Belt and Road Initiative: Imaginaries, Affinities, and Subjectivities in Chinese Transnational Education

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Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography

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The ‘soft infrastructure’ of the Belt and Road Initiative: Imaginaries, affinities and subjectivities in Chinese transnational education

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Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography

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The ‘soft infrastructure’ of the Belt and Road Initiative: Imaginaries, affinities and subjectivities in Chinese transnational education

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Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography

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Geographies of education: data, scale/mobilities, and pedagogies

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The Routledge Handbook of Methodologies in Human Geography

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GEOGRAPHIES OF EDUCATION: Data, Scale/Mobilities, and Pedagogies

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The Routledge Handbook of Methodologies in Human Geography

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International Student Mobilities and Voices in the Asia-Pacific

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Springer Nature Singapore

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International Student Mobilities and Voices from the Asia-Pacific

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PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

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Pandemic Recalibration of Habits

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International Student Mobilities and Voices in the Asia-Pacific: Letters to Coronavirus

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Pandemic Recalibration of Habits

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International Student Mobilities and Voices in the Asia-Pacific

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International student mobilities in a contagion: (Im)mobilising higher education?

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Geographical Research

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International student mobilities in a contagion: (Im)mobilising higher education?

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Geographical Research

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Youth Politics in Urban Asia

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Routledge

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Youth Politics in the Time of Pandemic: A View from Asian Cities

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ARIscope

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One Road, Many Dreams: China’s Bold Plan to Remake Global Economy, written by Daniel Drache, A.T. Kingsmith and Duan Qi

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Journal of Chinese Overseas

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book-review

COVID.ISM

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Urban custodians and hospitable citizens: citizenship and social actions at two liberal arts universities in Hong Kong and Shanghai

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Space and Polity

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Urban custodians and hospitable citizens: citizenship and social actions at two liberal arts universities in Hong Kong and Shanghai

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Space and Polity

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Youth politics in urban Asia: an introduction

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Space and Polity

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Youth politics in urban Asia: an introduction

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Space and Polity

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Geographies of citizenship in higher education: An introduction

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Area

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Geographies of citizenship in higher education: An introduction

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Area

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Liberal arts educated citizen: Experimentation, subjectification and ambiguous contours of youth citizenship

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Liberal arts educated citizen: Experimentation, subjectification and ambiguous contours of youth citizenship

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Area

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Introduction: Mobile Aspirations? Youth Im/Mobilities in the Asia-Pacific

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Journal of Intercultural Studies

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Introduction: Mobile Aspirations? Youth Im/Mobilities in the Asia-Pacific

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Journal of Intercultural Studies

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Educated non-elites’ pathways to cosmopolitanism: the case of private degree students in Singapore,Parcours vers le cosmopolitisme de personnes qui ont une formation supérieure sans faire partie des élites : le cas d’étudiants en licence dans le secteur privé à Singapour,Los mapas sonoros importan: expandiendo la cartofonía

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Social and Cultural Geography

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Educated non-elites’ pathways to cosmopolitanism: the case of private degree students in Singapore

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Social & Cultural Geography

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Educational Mobility and Transnationalization

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Higher Education in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

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Educational mobility and transnationalization

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Higher Education in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

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Educational Mobility and Transnationalization

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Higher Education in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

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Educational Friction: Striated Routes, Transition Velocity, and Value Recuperation among Singaporean Private Degree Students

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Journal of Intercultural Studies

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Educational Friction: Striated Routes, Transition Velocity, and Value Recuperation among Singaporean Private Degree Students

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Journal of Intercultural Studies

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Crossing boundaries of state and religious power: Reproductive mobilities in Singapore

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Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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Passing through Shanghai: ethnographic insights into the mobile lives of expatriate youths

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Children's Geographies

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Crossing boundaries of state and religious power: Reproductive mobilities in Singapore

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Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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Cultural Politics of Education and Human Capital Formation: Learning to Labor in Singapore

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Laboring and Learning

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Educated non-elites’ pathways to cosmopolitanism: the case of private degree students in Singapore

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Social & Cultural Geography

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Critical Geographies of Education Beyond “Value”: Moral Sentiments, Caring, and a Politics for Acting Differently

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Antipode

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Critical Geographies of Education Beyond “Value”: Moral Sentiments, Caring, and a Politics for Acting Differently

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Antipode

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Learning in neoliberal times: Private degree students and the politics of value coding in Singapore

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Environment and Planning A

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Learning in neoliberal times: Private degree students and the politics of value coding in Singapore

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Environment and Planning A

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Biopolitical Geographies of Student Life: Private Higher Education and Citizenship Life-Making in Singapore

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Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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Biopolitical Geographies of Student Life: Private Higher Education and Citizenship Life-Making in Singapore

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Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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Still ‘breadwinners’ and ‘providers’: Singaporean husbands, money and masculinity in transnational marriages

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Gender, Place and Culture

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Transnational domestic work and the politics of development

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The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Development

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Still ‘breadwinners’ and ‘providers’: Singaporean husbands, money and masculinity in transnational marriages

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Gender, Place & Culture

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Time protagonists: Student migrants, practices of time and cultural construction of the Singapore-educated person

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Social and Cultural Geography

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Telling Stories of the City: Walking Ethnography, Affective Materialities, and Mobile Encounters

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Space and Culture

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Telling stories of the city: Walking ethnography, affective materialities, and mobile encounters

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Space and Culture

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Family migration

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The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration

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Between two families: the social meaning of remittances for Vietnamese marriage migrants in Singapore

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Global Networks

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Between two families: The social meaning of remittances for Vietnamese marriage migrants in Singapore

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Global Networks

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Geographies of Alternative Education: diverse learning spaces for children and young people

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Children's Geographies

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Telling Stories of the City: Walking Ethnography, Affective Materialities, and Mobile Encounters

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Space and Culture

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Transnational masculinities in situ: Singaporean husbands and their international marriage experiences

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