PhD student at the Department of Anthropology.
Women’s Singing in Motion: Hokkien Musical Practices and Gender Identity Negotiations of Chinese Transnational Migrant Women.
This research examines the role of Hokkien music-making, singing, and listening practices in the formation of gendered identities among Chinese transnational migrant women from Quanzhou in South China to the Philippines. Drawing on both online and offline ethnographic research with these women, it focuses on how Hokkien musical traditions are shaped by migrant women’s mobility experiences in the context of new social backdrops influenced by neo-traditionalism and neo-liberalism.