Yen-Fen Tseng

Tseng’s research focuses on migration within Asia and migration policy, particularly skilled migration to and from Taiwan. She studied skilled migration out of Taiwan in various Asian global cities concerning the recognition of skills across borders and the importance of place characteristics of global cities influencing mobility/settlement intentions among skilled migrants. She is currently studying skilled migrants from Southeast Asia to Taiwan, focusing on those taking the study-migration pathway. She examines the gap between skilled immigration policy and lived migratory experiences among skilled migrants in Taiwan. Tseng earned her Ph.D. in sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Education

• Yen-Fen Tseng. 2023 “Settlement intentions among Taiwanese skilled migrants in Tokyo and Hong Kong,” Asian Population Studies. Volume 18 (2):113-128.
• Yen-Fen Tseng and Jian-Bang Deng. 2021.” Becoming Migrants: Migration Motility Among Taiwanese Young Workers in Developing Transnational Career,” Journal of Population Studies, Issue 63: 51-97。
• Hof, Helena and Yen-Fen Tseng. 2021. “When Global Talents Struggle to Become Local Workers: The New Face of Skilled Migration to Corporate Japan and Its Paradoxes,” Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 29 (4):511-531.
• Yen-Fen Tseng. 2021. “Becoming Global Talent? Taiwanese White-Collar Migrants in Japan,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47(10):2288-2304.
• Yen-Fen Tseng (2016). “Escalator or Merry-Go-Round? Taiwanese Skilled Migration to China”, in Gunter Schubert (eds.), Pp. 196-214. Taiwan and the “China Impact”, London and New York: Routledge.
• Yen-Fen Tseng (2015). “How Do Identities Matter? Taiwanese Cultural Workers in China”, in Jenn-Hwan Wang (eds.), Pp.189-201. Border Crossing in Greater China: Production, Community and Identity, London and New York: Routledge.
• Tseng, Yen-Fen and Ping Lin (2014). “Through the Looking Glass: Migration into and out of Taiwan”, in Kuei-fen Chiu, Dafydd Fell, Lin Ping (eds.), Pp.12-24. Migration to and from Taiwan, London and New York: Routledge.
• Yen-Fen Tseng (2014). “Bordering Careers on China: Skilled Migration from Taiwan to China”, in Kuei-fen Chiu, Dafydd Fell, Lin Ping (eds.), Pp. 42-56. Migration to and from Taiwan, London and New York: Routledge.
• Yen-Fen Tseng (2013). “Taiwanese Middle Classes in Shanghai: Causes and Consequences of Skilled Migration” , in Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao (eds.), Pp.157-179. Chinese Middle Classes: Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, and China, London and New York: Routledge.
• Yen-Fen Tseng and Honzeng Wang (2013). Governing Migrant Workers at a Distance: Managing the Temporary Status of Guestworkers in Taiwan. International Migration 51 (4): 1-19.
• Yen-Fen Tseng (2011). Shanghai Rush: Skilled Migrants in a Fantasy City. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 37 (5): 765-784.
• Yen-Fen Tseng and Jiehming Wu (2011). Reconfiguring Citizenship and Nationality: Dual Citizenship of Taiwanese Migrants in China. Citizenship Studies 15 (02): 265-282.
• Yen-Fen Tseng (2011). “Marriage Migration to East Asia: Current Issues and Propositions in Making Comparisons”, in Wen-Shan Yang and Melody Chia-Wen Lu (eds.), Pp.31-45. Cross-Border Marriage Migration in East and Southeast Asia: Socio-Demographic Patterns and Issues, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
• Yen-Fen Tseng and Yukiko Komiya (2011). “Classism in Immigration Control and Migrant Integration”, in T.W. Ngo, Hong-zen Wang(eds.), Pp.98-115. Politics of Difference in Taiwan, London and New York: Routledge.
• Yen-Fen Tseng and Chia-Ling Wu (2010). “Governing Germs from Outside and Within Borders: Controlling the 2003 SARS Risk in Taiwan”, in Qizi Liang, Angela Ki Che Leung, Charlotte Furth (eds.), Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia, Durham: Duke University Press.
• Min Zhou, Yen-Fen Tseng, and Rebecca Kim (2009). “Suburbanization and New Trends in Community Development”, in Min Zhou(eds.), Pp.77-96. Contemporary Chinese America: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community Transformation, Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
• Min Zhou, Rebecca Kim, and Yen-Fen Tseng (2008).Rethinking Residential Assimilation: The Case of a Chinese Ethnoburb in the San Gabriel Valley, California. Amerasia Journal 34 (3): 53-83.
• Yen-Fen Tseng (2005). “Permanently Temporary: Taiwanese Business Nomads as Reluctant Migrants,” in Beatriz P. Lorente, Nicola Piper, Shen Hsiu-Hua (eds.), Pp. 179-193. Asian Migrations: Sojourning, Displacement, Homecoming and Other Travels, Singapore: National University of Singapore Press.
• Yen-Fen Tseng (2004). “Politics of Importing Foreigners: Taiwan’s Foreign Labor Policy”, in H. B. Entzinger, Marco Martiniello, Catherine Wihtol de Wenden (eds.), Migration Between States and Markets, Farnham: Ashgate Publishers.
• Yen-Fen Tseng (2002). From” Us” to” Them”: Diasporic Linkages and Identity Politics. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 9 (3): 383-404.
• Zhou, Yu and Yen-Fen Tseng (2002). Regrounding the “Ungrounded Empires”: Localization as the Geographical Catalyst for Transnationalism. Global Networks 1 (2): 131-154.
• Yen-Fen Tseng and Yu Zhou (2001). “Immigrant Economy in a Pacific Rim Context: Chinese Businesses in Los Angeles”, in Alvin Y. So, Nan Lin, Dudley Poston (eds.), Pp. 239-252. The Chinese Triangle of Mainland-Taiwan-Hong Kong: Comparative Institutional Analyses, Westport: Greenwood Press.
• Yen-Fen Tseng (2000). “Immigrant Firms and Transnational Embeddedness: Chinese Entrepreneurs in Los Angeles”, in Rueyling Tzeng and Brian Uzzi (eds.), Pp.263-282. Embeddedness and Corporate Change in a Global Economy, Wabernstrasse: International Academic Publishers.
• Yen-Fen Tseng (2000). The Mobility of Entrepreneurs and Capital: Taiwanese Capital‐Linked Migration. International Migration 38 (2):143-168.
• Yen-Fen Tseng (1997) “Immigration consulting firms in Taiwanese business immigration,” Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, Vol.6, No.3-4: 275-294.
• Yen-Fen Tseng (1997). Ethnic Resources as Forms of Social Capital: A Study on Chinese Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Los Angeles. Taiwan Sociological Review No.1: 169-205.
• Yen-Fen Tseng (1995). Beyond “Little Taipei”: The Development of Taiwanese Immigrant Businesses in Los Angeles. International Migration Review 29(1): 33-58.
• Yen-Fen Tseng (1994). Chinese Ethnic Economy: San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles County. Journal of Urban Affairs 16(2):169-189.
• Roger Waldinger and Yen-Fen Tseng (1992). Divergent Diasporas: the Chinese Communities of New York and Los Angeles Compared. Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales 8 (3):91-115.