Simeng
Wang

A Permanent Research Fellow at The French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and faculty member at the CERMES3 (Research Centre, Medicine, Science, Health, Mental Health and Society), Simeng Wang hold a PhD in Sociology from the École Normale Supérieure in Paris (2014). Her research interests include migration studies (from East and Southeast Asia to France), sociology of health and mental health, and ethnic and racial studies. Since 2009, she has been working on Chinese immigration in France, at first about mental suffering and living conditions of Chinese migrants and their children, then through various analytic angles: family and intergenerational relationships, political engagement, transnational circulation and mobilities. Her current work is built around two poles, the first at the intersection of Asian migration and health in a global era; the second on the experiences of racism and discrimination among Asian origin people in France (see among others MigraChiCovid Project and the REACTAsie project). She is the author of several books and scientific articles on East and Southeast Asian migration, particularly Chinese migration to France and Europe, health and mental health, and racism and racial discrimination (see https://cnrs.academia.edu/SimengWang). She is the founder and coordinator of the research network on East and South-East Asian Migrations in France (MAF, http://www.migrations-asiatiques-en-france.cnrs.fr/). She is also the scientific curator of the "East and South-East Asian Immigrations to France since 1860" exhibition held at the French National Museum of the History of Immigration (MNHI) between October 10, 2023 and February 25, 2024. As teacher, she hosts at the French School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, also known as EHESS) two seminars “East and Southeast Asian migration to France since 1860” and “Migrations and health”. Between 2017 and 2021, she was an elected member of the executive committee of the French Sociology Association.