I am Lecturer at NUS College of the National University of Singapore. Prior to this, I was Research Fellow at Asia Research Institute (ARI) in 2019-2022 and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Division of Social Sciences at Yale-NUS College in 2017-2019. I stay with ARI as an Associate of the Asian Migration Cluster. I completed a DPhil at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, as a recipient of the Oxford Clarendon and St Peter’s Diggle Scholarship. I received a Master of Social...
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 3204 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8897-0372 |
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| Research Gate | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yien-Cheng-2 |
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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Legal-political consequences
Disciplines
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Disciplines
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Subject Areas
Geographies
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UN Countries
Roles
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NUS College, National University of Singapore
University, Singapore, Singapore
Lecturer -
Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
University, Singapore, Singapore
Research Fellow -
Yale-National University of Singapore
University, Singapore, Singapore
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research
Educational Friction: Striated Routes, Transition Velocity, and Value Recuperation among Singaporean Private Degree Students
| Authors | Yi’En Cheng, Cheng Yi'En |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Intercultural Studies |
Introduction: Mobile Aspirations? Youth Im/Mobilities in the Asia-Pacific
| Authors | Shanthi Robertson, BSA Yeoh, Cheng Yi'En, ... |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Intercultural Studies |
Educated non-elites’ pathways to cosmopolitanism: the case of private degree students in Singapore
| Authors | Yi’En Cheng, Cheng Yi'En |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Social & Cultural Geography |
Learning in neoliberal times: Private degree students and the politics of value coding in Singapore
| Authors | Yi’En Cheng |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space |
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 |
Time protagonists: student migrants, practices of time and cultural construction of the Singapore-educated person
| Authors | Yi'En Cheng, Cheng Yi'En |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | Social & Cultural Geography |
| Citations (WoS) | 14 |
Telling Stories of the City
| Authors | Cheng Yi’En, Cheng Yi'En |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | Space and Culture |
Mapping the moral geographies of education: character, citizenship and values
| Authors | Yi’En Cheng |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Social & Cultural Geography |
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 |
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