Angela Man Xu

My research is situated at the intersection of economic sociology, race, ethnicity and migration studies. I study the symbolic and relational process of global market-making, and the transnational construction of identity and status inequalities, with an empirical focus on the social space connecting China and the Middle East. My work combines qualitative methods, including ethnography, interviews, and discourse analysis.

I am a Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of International Studies at American University of Sharjah. I acquired a PhD in Sociology from the University of Toronto, a MA in Middle Eastern Studies from Lund University in Sweden and a B.A. in Persian Language and Literature from Peking University in China. My work is supported by the doctoral fellowship from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange and appears in the Sociological Review, Current Sociology and the Routledge Handbook on Middle Eastern Diasporas.

Sociologist

(she/her)