Trained as a social anthropologist, Juan’s research centres on transnational migration and mobilities, gender and labour, urbanisation and development, borders and control. With extensive research experiences in China, Singapore, Vietnam and the Philippines, Juan has an established track record of publishing and collaborating with colleagues across national and disciplinary boundaries. Her work has been published by journals including Environment and Planning D & A, Current Sociology, Gender, Place...
Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 1927
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3613-6332
Twitter https://twitter.com/@Zhang_Juan_

Expertise

Migration processes
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
Migration governance
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
Disciplines
Methods
Geographies

Roles

  • University of Bristol

    University, Bristol, United Kingdom
    Lecturer

Research

Searching for oriental simplicity: foreign brides and the Asian family in Singapore

Authors Juan Zhang, Brenda S. A. Yeoh
Year 2020
Journal Name Gender, Place & Culture
1 Journal Article

To move or not to move: mobility decision-making in the context of welfare conditionality and paid employment

Authors Greg Marston, Juan Zhang, Michelle Peterie, ...
Year 2019
Journal Name Mobilities
2 Journal Article

The Moral Economy of Casino Work in Singapore

Authors Juan Zhang
Year 2019
Book Title Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia
3 Book Chapter

2. The Moral Economy of Casino Work in Singapore

Authors Juan Zhang
Year 2019
Book Title Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia
4 Book Chapter

The role of human emotion in decisions about credit: policy and practice considerations

Authors Greg Marston, Marcus Banks, Juan Zhang
Year 2018
Journal Name Critical Policy Studies
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5 Journal Article

Self-fashioning exceptionality: flexible workers in Singapore’s casino resorts

Authors Juan Zhang, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Kamalini Ramdas
Year 2017
Journal Name Asian Anthropology
6 Journal Article

9. Neighbouring in Anxiety along the China-Vietnam Border

Authors Juan Zhang
Year 2017
Book Title The Art of Neighbouring
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7 Book Chapter

The State of Fun? Exclusive Casino Urbanism and Its Biopolitical Borders in Singapore

Authors Juan Zhang, Brenda S.A. Yeoh
Year 2017
Journal Name Pacific Affairs
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8 Journal Article

Introduction: Integrated Mega-Casinos and Speculative Urbanism in Southeast Asia

Authors Juan Zhang
Year 2017
Journal Name Pacific Affairs
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9 Journal Article

Harnessing exception: Mobilities, credibility, and the casino

Authors Juan Zhang, Brenda SA Yeoh
Year 2016
Journal Name Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
10 Journal Article

Multiple mobilities and entrepreneurial modalities among Chinese marriage migrants in Malaysia

Authors Melody CW Lu, Juan Zhang, Heng Leng Chee, ...
Year 2016
Journal Name Current Sociology
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11 Journal Article

Still ‘breadwinners’ and ‘providers’: Singaporean husbands, money and masculinity in transnational marriages

Authors Yi'En Cheng, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Juan Zhang
Year 2015
Journal Name Gender, Place & Culture
12 Journal Article

Cross-Border Marriage, Transgovernmental Friction, and Waiting

Authors Juan Zhang, BSA Yeoh, Melody C. W. Lu, ...
Year 2015
Journal Name Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
Citations (WoS) 5
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13 Journal Article

‘Walled’ activism: transnational social movements and the politics of Chinese cyber-public space

Authors Juan Zhang, Pál Nyíri
Year 2014
Journal Name International Development Planning Review
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14 Journal Article

Remote and edgy

Authors Erik Harms, Shafqat Hussain, Sasha Newell, ...
Year 2014
Journal Name HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
15 Journal Article

A trafficking ‘not-spot’ in a China–Vietnam border town

Year 2012
Book Title Labour Migration and Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia
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16 Book Chapter

Understanding patterns of adherence to COVID-19 mitigation measures: a qualitative interview study

Authors Sarah Denford, Kate S Morton, Helen Lambert, ...
Year 2021
Journal Name Journal of Public Health
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17 Journal Article

Routledge Handbook of Asian Migrations

Authors Gracia Liu-Farrer, Brenda S.A. Yeoh
Year 2018
18 Book

Navigating Transnationalism:

Authors ERIC C. THOMPSON, ZHANG JUAN
Book Title Impressions of the Goh Chok Tong Years in Singapore
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19 Book Chapter

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