Sin Yee Koh is a human geographer working at the intersections of migration studies (education, skilled, lifestyle, transnational mobilities, migration industry) and urban studies (urbanisation and social change in Asia, urban intermediaries). Her work uses the lens of migration and mobility to understand the circulations of people, capital, and aspirations in and through cities. She has published on diaspora strategies, academic and teacher expatriate mobilities, migration and urban intermediaries,...
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 2662 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9350-1119 |
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| Research Gate | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sin_Yee_Koh |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
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Migration infrastructures
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Socio-economic consequences
Migration governance
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Migration policy and law
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Transversal themes
Disciplines
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Disciplines
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Subject Areas
Methods
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Either/Mixed
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Qualitative research
Geographies
Roles
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Monash University Malaysia
University, Malaysia
Senior Lecturer in Global Studies -
Universiti Brunei Darussalam
Other, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam
Senior Assistant Professor -
Monash University Malaysia
University, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia
Senior Lecturer -
Universiti Brunei Darussalam
Other, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam
Assistant Professor -
City University of Hong Kong
University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research
Way‐finding agendas through Transactions
| Authors | James Esson, Markus Breines, Katherine Brickell, ... |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Lifestyle migrants' urban citizenship and right to have rights: The Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) programme during a time of crisis
| Authors | Sin Yee Koh, Sin Yee Koh |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Cities |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Care for Transactions
| Authors | Adrian J. Bailey, Markus Breines, Phil Emmerson, ... |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers |
The inversion of majority/minority at the de/reterritorialised urban higher education enclave: Xiamen University Malaysia
| Authors | Sin Yee Koh |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Urban Studies |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Multiscalar politics of development. A review of Johor: Abode of Development? by Francis. E Hutchinson and Serina Rahman (eds).
| Authors | Sin Yee Koh |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography |
Elite transnational networks, spaces and lifestyles
| Authors | Sin Yee Koh |
| Year | 2022 |
| Book Title | Handbook on Transnationalism |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Race, whiteness and internationality in transnational education: academic and teacher expatriates in Malaysia
| Authors | Sin Yee Koh, I Lin Sin |
| Year | 2022 |
| Book Title | Asian Migration and New Racism |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Moving the mountain and greening the sea: the micropolitics of speculative green urbanism at Forest City, Iskandar Malaysia
| Authors | Sin Yee Koh, Yimin Zhao, Hyun Bang Shin |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Urban Geography |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Race, whiteness and internationality in transnational education: academic and teacher expatriates in Malaysia
| Authors | Sin Yee Koh, I Lin Sin |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The interurban migration industry: ‘Migration products’ and the materialisation of urban speculation at Iskandar Malaysia
| Authors | Sin Yee Koh |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Urban Studies |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
“Mandarin Fever” and Chinese Language-learning in Brunei’s Middle Schools: Discrepant Discourses, Multifaceted Realities and Institutional Barriers
| Authors | Sin Yee Koh, Chang-Yau Hoon, Noor Azam Haji-Othman |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Asian Studies Review |
Disrupted Geographic Arbitrage and Differential Capacities of Coping in Later-Life: Anglo-Western Teacher Expatriates in Brunei
| Authors | Sin Yee Koh |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | International Migration Review |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Whither progressive urban futures? Critical reflections on the politics of temporality in Asia
| Authors | Hyun Bang Shin, Yimin Zhao, Sin Yee Koh |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | City |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Academic and teacher expatriates: Mobilities, positionalities, and subjectivities
| Authors | Sin Yee Koh, I Lin Sin |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Geography Compass |
Multicultural reflexivity: university students negotiating ‘pockets’ and ‘strings’ of multiculturalism in Malaysia
| Authors | Sin Yee Koh, A. Harris |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Children's Geographies |
Super Rich
| Authors | Sin Yee Koh |
| Year | 2020 |
| Book Title | International Encyclopedia of Human Geography |
Noncitizens’ Rights
| Authors | Sin Yee Koh |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Migration and Society |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Inequality
| Authors | Sin Yee Koh |
| Year | 2020 |
| Book Title | International Encyclopedia of Human Geography |
Citizens in Motion: Emigration, Immigration, and Re-Migration across China's Borders
| Authors | Sin Yee Koh |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Asian Journal of Social Science |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
More than real estate
| Authors | Sin Yee Koh |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Dialogues in Human Geography |
Enabling, structuring and creating elite transnational lifestyles: intermediaries of the super-rich and the elite mobilities industry
| Authors | Sin Yee Koh, Bart Wissink |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 3 |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
In Search of the Super-Rich: Who Are They? Where Are They?
| Authors | Ray Forrest, Sin Yee Koh, Bart Wissink |
| Year | 2017 |
| Book Title | Cities and the Super-Rich |
Hyper-Divided Cities and the ‘Immoral’ Super-Rich: Five Parting Questions
| Authors | Ray Forrest, Sin Yee Koh, Bart Wissink |
| Year | 2017 |
| Book Title | Cities and the Super-Rich |
Tycoon City: Political Economy, Real Estate and the Super-Rich in Hong Kong
| Authors | Bart Wissink, Sin Yee Koh, Ray Forrest |
| Year | 2017 |
| Book Title | Cities and the Super-Rich |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The globalisation of real estate: the politics and practice of foreign real estate investment
| Authors | Dallas Rogers, Sin Yee Koh |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | International Journal of Housing Policy |
Race, Education, and Citizenship
| Authors | Sin Yee Koh |
| Year | 2017 |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Contextualising Geographies of Education-Induced Skilled Migration: How Mobile Malaysians End up in Singapore, London, and Kuala Lumpur
| Year | 2016 |
| Book Title | Asia in Transition |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Geographies of Education-Induced Skilled Migration: The Malaysian Case
| Authors | Sin Yee Koh |
| Year | 2015 |
| Book Title | Labouring and Learning |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Postcolonial Approaches to Migration in Asia: Reflections and Projections
| Authors | Sin Yee Koh |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Geography Compass |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
State-led talent return migration programme and the doubly neglected ‘Malaysian diaspora’: Whose diaspora, what citizenship, whose development?
| Authors | Sin Yee Koh |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Temporalities of citizenship: Malaysian-Chinese skilled migrants in Singapore and returnees to Malaysia
| Authors | Sin Yee Koh |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Asian and Pacific Migration Journal |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
How and Why Race Matters: Malaysian-Chinese Transnational Migrants Interpreting and PractisingBumiputera-differentiated Citizenship
| Authors | Sin Yee Koh |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 11 |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Crisis infrastructuring: the Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) programme, 2018–2022
| Authors | Sin Yee Koh |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Applied Mobilities |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The ‘soft infrastructure’ of the Belt and Road Initiative: Imaginaries, affinities and subjectivities in Chinese transnational education
| Authors | Yi'En Cheng, Sin Yee Koh |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography |
Reconsidering the super-rich: variations, structural conditions and urban consequences
| Authors | Sin Yee Koh, Bart Wissink, Ray Forrest |
| Journal Name | Handbook on Wealth and the Super-Rich |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
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