Yi'En Cheng

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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

Lecturer

, , Singapore

Jul 2022→ Present

Summary

National University of Singapore

Research Fellow / Dr

, , Singapore

Jul 2019→ Jun 2022

Summary

Yale-NUS College

Postdoctoral Fellow

, , Singapore

Jul 2016→ Jun 2019

Summary

Education

University of Oxford

, , United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Oct 2012→ Jan 2016

DPhil

National University of Singapore

, , Singapore

Jan 2010→ Jan 2012

Master of Social Science

National University of Singapore

, , Singapore

Jan 2007→ Jan 2010

Bachelor of Social Science

Publications

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

Asian Population Studies

Jan 2025

journal-article

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

Asian Population Studies

Jan 2025

journal-article

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

Applied Mobilities

Jan 2024

journal-article

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

Applied Mobilities

Jan 2024

journal-article

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

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Jan 2024

journal-article

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

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Jan 2023

journal-article

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

Social & Cultural Geography

Jan 2023

journal-article

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

International Studies in Sociology of Education

Jan 2023

journal-article

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

International Studies in Sociology of Education

Jan 2023

journal-article

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

Mobilities

Jan 2023

journal-article

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

Mobilities

Jan 2023

journal-article

Infrastructuring Student Mobilities in Asia

Routledge Handbook of Asian Transnationalism

Jan 2022

book-chapter

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

Globalisation, Societies and Education

Jan 2022

journal-article

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

Globalisation, Societies and Education

Jan 2022

journal-article

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

Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography

Jan 2022

journal-article

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

Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography

Jan 2022

journal-article

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

Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography

Jan 2022

journal-article

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

The Routledge Handbook of Methodologies in Human Geography

Jan 2022

book-chapter

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

The Routledge Handbook of Methodologies in Human Geography

Jan 2022

book-chapter

International Student Mobilities and Voices in the Asia-Pacific

Springer Nature Singapore

Jan 2022

book

International Student Mobilities and Voices from the Asia-Pacific

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Jan 2022

book

Pandemic Recalibration of Habits

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

Jan 2022

book-chapter

Pandemic Recalibration of Habits

International Student Mobilities and Voices in the Asia-Pacific

Jan 2022

book-chapter

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

Geographical Research

Jan 2021

journal-article

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

Geographical Research

Jan 2021

journal-article

Youth Politics in Urban Asia

Routledge

Jan 2021

edited-book

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

ARIscope

Jan 2020

magazine-article

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

Journal of Chinese Overseas

Jan 2020

book-review

COVID.ISM

Jan 2020

website

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

Space and Polity

Jan 2020

journal-article

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

Space and Polity

Jan 2020

journal-article

Youth politics in urban Asia: an introduction

Space and Polity

Jan 2020

journal-article

Youth politics in urban Asia: an introduction

Space and Polity

Jan 2020

journal-article

Geographies of citizenship in higher education: An introduction

Area

Jan 2019

journal-article

Geographies of citizenship in higher education: An introduction

Area

Jan 2019

journal-article

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

Area

Jan 2019

journal-article

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

Area

Jan 2019

journal-article

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

Journal of Intercultural Studies

Jan 2018

journal-article

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

Journal of Intercultural Studies

Jan 2018

journal-article

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

Social and Cultural Geography

Jan 2018

journal-article

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

Social & Cultural Geography

Jan 2018

journal-article

Educational Mobility and Transnationalization

Higher Education in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Jan 2018

other

Educational mobility and transnationalization

Higher Education in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Jan 2018

book-chapter

Educational Mobility and Transnationalization

Higher Education in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Jan 2018

other

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

Journal of Intercultural Studies

Jan 2018

journal-article

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

Journal of Intercultural Studies

Jan 2018

journal-article

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

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

Jan 2017

journal-article

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

Children's Geographies

Jan 2017

journal-article

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

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

Jan 2017

journal-article

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

Laboring and Learning

Jan 2017

other

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

Social & Cultural Geography

Jan 2016

journal-article

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

Antipode

Jan 2016

journal-article

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

Antipode

Jan 2016

journal-article

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

Environment and Planning A

Jan 2016

journal-article

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

Environment and Planning A

Jan 2015

journal-article

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

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Jan 2015

journal-article

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

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Jan 2015

journal-article

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

Gender, Place and Culture

Jan 2015

journal-article

Transnational domestic work and the politics of development

The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Development

Jan 2015

book-chapter

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

Gender, Place & Culture

Jan 2014

journal-article

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

Social and Cultural Geography

Jan 2014

journal-article

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

Space and Culture

Jan 2014

journal-article

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

Space and Culture

Jan 2014

journal-article

Family migration

The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration

Jan 2013

other

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

Global Networks

Jan 2013

journal-article

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

Global Networks

Jan 2013

journal-article

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

Children's Geographies

Jan 2013

journal-article

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

Space and Culture

Jan 2013

journal-article

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

Area

Jan 2012

journal-article