Pei-Chia Lan

Pei-Chia Lan is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of Global Asia Research Center (2017-2023) at National Taiwan University. Her areas of specialty include migration, gender, family, work, and social inequality. She will be a CASBS (Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences) fellow at Stanford University (2023-2024). She currently serves as the deputy editor for Gender & Society (2023-2026) and editorial board member for several international journals. She was a Yenching-Radcliffe fellow at Harvard University, a Fulbright scholar at New York University, a visiting professor at the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Kyoto University, and Tubingen University, IIAS at Leiden University, and a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley. Her major publications include Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan (Duke 2006, won a Distinguished Book Award from the Sex and Gender Section of the American Sociological Association and ICAS Book Prize: Best Study in Social Science from the International Convention of Asian Scholars) and Raising Global Families: Parenting, Immigration, and Class in Taiwan and the US (Stanford 2018).

Education

• 2000 Ph.D. in Sociology, Northwestern University
• 1997 Certificate in Women’s Studies, Northwestern University
• 1995 M.A. in Sociology, National Taiwan University
• 1992 B.A. in Sociology, National Taiwan University

Employment

• UC Berkeley Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2000-2001)
• New York University Fulbright Visiting Scholar (2006-2007)
• International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) Visiting Scholarship, Leiden, the Netherlands (summer 2005)
• Harvard University Yenching-Radcliffe Visiting Scholar (2011-2012)
• Global COE Visiting Professor, Kyoto University (summer 2012) 
• Visiting Scholar, CCKF-European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan, Tuebingen University (July 2019)
• Exchange Professor, Kyoto University (October 2019)
• Visiting Researcher, Institute of Advanced Studies, Waseda University (Nov-Dec. 2019)
•  CASBS (the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences)-STSS (Taiwan-Stanford Fellowship Program in the Humanities and Social Sciences) fellowship, Stanford University (2024-2025)

• 2024        “Contesting Boundaries and Navigating Identities: Second-generation Adult Children from Cross-border Marriages in Taiwan.” International Migration Review. In press. (與徐婕合著)〈新住民子女的媒體差異呈現：語料庫與框架分析〉人文及社會科學集刊. In press. 

• 2023       “Geopolitical Multiculturalism in East Asia.” Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 64(3): 425-431, DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/apv.12396“Navigating Childrearing, Fatherhood, and Mobilities: A Transnational Relational Analysis.” The Sociological Review, 71(1): 3-26, DOI: 10.1177/00380261221143586

• 2022        “Contested Skills and Constrained Mobility: Migrant Carework Skill Regimes in Taiwan and Japan.” Comparative Migration Studies 10:37. DOI: 10.1186/s40878-022-00311-2

• “Shifting Borders and Migrant Workers’ Im/mobility: The Case of Taiwan during the COVID-19 pandemic.” Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 31(3): 225-246. https://doi.org/10.1177/01171968221127495

• (with Yuk-Wah Chan) “The Politics of Sanitization: Pandemic Crisis, Migration and Development in Asia-Pacific.” Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 31(3): 205-224. https://doi.org/10.1177/01171968221129382

• (with Yuk-Wah Chan) “Rethinking the Migration-Development Nexus in the Post-Covid Era. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 31(3): 324-335. https://doi.org/10.1177/01171968221126573

• (與簡永達合著) 越南牛頭與台灣仲介：跨國招工網絡的彈性重組，台灣社會學, 43: 1-49.https://www.ios.sinica.edu.tw/journal/ts-comingsoon/ts43_p1.pdf

• 2019       “Raising Children across the Pacific.” Contexts 18(2): 42-47. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1536504219854717. [Reprinted in Mapping the Social Landscape: Reading in Sociology, 9th Edition, edited by Susan J. Ferguson. Sage.]

• “From Reproductive Assimilation to Neoliberal Multiculturalism: Framing and Regulating Immigrant Mothers and their Children in Taiwan.” Journal of Intercultural Studies 40(3): 318-333. DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2019.1598952