Angela Man Xu

My research focuses on trade and migration between China and the Middle East. I ethnographically trace the cultural work through which actors construct a landscape of meaning that sustains transnational markets and organizes social relations within them. In doing so, I bridge cultural economic sociology with ethnic and migration studies to show how negotiations over identity, worth and morality both constitute transnational markets and generate new forms of inequality related to ethnicity and citizenship.

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)