Angela Man Xu

I study South–South trade and migration to bring economic and cultural sociology into dialogue with ethnic and migration studies. Using ethnography, in-depth interviews and critical discourse analysis, I theorize how states, market intermediaries and migrants produce moral norms and cultural meanings that shape economic relations and negotiate inequalities of ethnicity, class and citizenship in transnational markets.

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

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