Yong Li is a sociologist, post-doctoral fellow at the Triangle Laboratory, ENS de Lyon, France. He is research coordinator in the International Advanced Laboratory “Post-Western Sociology in Europe and in China” ENS Lyon/Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is also a fellow of the French Collaborative Institute on Migration. His research interests include student mobility, career paths of skilled migrants, experiences of discrimination and racism of people of Asian origin in France, migrant entrepreneurship, social ramification of the food safety scandals in mainland China.

Expertise

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

Roles

  • Triangle Laboratory, ENS Lyon

    Research Institute, Lyon, France
    Postdoc fellow

  • CNRS Délégation Rhône-Auvergne

    Other, Villeurbanne, France
    Postdoc fellow

Research

“Make a Living by Doing Good”

Authors Yong Li
Year 2022
Journal Name Transfers
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1 Journal Article

Move Abroad to Move Forward? Self-Assessments of Chinese Students and Undocumented Migrants in France

Authors Florence Lévy, Yong Li
Year 2021
Journal Name Social Inclusion
Citations (WoS) 4
2 Journal Article

« Devenir adulte » en contexte migratoire

Authors Yong Li, Simeng Wang
Year 2021
Journal Name Agora débats/jeunesses
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3 Journal Article

The identity crisis of Chinese graduates in France

Authors Li Yong
Year 2020
Book Title Chinese Immigrants in Europe
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5 Book Chapter

Institutional Discrimination and Workplace Racism

Authors Yong Li (李永)
Year 2020
Journal Name Journal of Chinese Overseas
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7 Journal Article

A Risk Perspective on Chinese Student Migration in France

Authors Yong Li
Year 2015
Book Title Chinese Educational Migration and Student-Teacher Mobilities
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8 Book Chapter

Suggested Research

Health Care Experiences of Stateless People in Canada

Authors Jocelyn Kane, Gezy Schuurmans, Miho Kitamura
Year 2023
Journal Name Journal on Migration and Human Security
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2 Journal Article

The Refugee/Asylum Seeker

Year 2015
Book Title Handbook of the Economics of International Migration
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3 Book Chapter

UNHCR Population Statistics Database

Description
The database contains information on UNHCR's populations of concern from 1951 onwards. It can be used to investigate different aspects of displacement: host countries and countries of origin, status (refugees, asylum seekers, returned refugees, internally displaced persons (IDP), protected/assisted by UNHCR, returned IDPs, stateless persons, etc.), evolution over time, etc. The dataset covers more than 180 countries. Information like age and sex are also recorded. The data can be easily filtered by single or multiple variables. The selected data can be downloaded to comma-separated variable (CSV) format file and imported in other applications for further analysis. Moreover, mid-year statistics are also available for download. General notes: A number of statistics are not shown in the system but are displayed as asterisks (*). These figures are being kept confidential to protect the anonymity of persons of concern and are not included in the totals.
Year 1951
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4 Data Set

Asylum seekers, refugees and internally displaced persons in the Republic of Belarus : challenges to social cohesion

Authors Larissa TITARENKO
Description
There is a global rise in forced migration resulting from military and ethnic conflicts and natural disasters. Being one of the stable countries in the post-Soviet region the Republic of Belarus attracts attention of forced migrants seeking asylum and/or protection. Thus, the problem of forced migration affects Belarus, as it acts as a recipient country for foreign nationals and stateless persons seeking refuge and/or asylum.
Year 2013
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7 Report

TRACKS: Identification of TRafficked Asylum seeKers' Special needs

Description
TRACKS- identification of TRafficked Asylum seeKers’ Special needs is a transnational project that offers to analyze the asylum-trafficking in human beings (THB) nexus through the prism of special needs of trafficked asylum seekers and to equip national asylum authorities and civil society organizations to tackle crosscutting issues (i.e. protection, housing, rehabilitation, psychosocial support as well as security). Indeed, international protection of these asylum seekers might be challenged by their very specific vulnerability. Asylum seekers identified as victims of THB need to benefit from specific social and judicial support and reception conditions, as well as from a procedure that should be adapted to their individual specific situation. These needs have to be addressed to allow them to benefit from an appropriated international protection by EU member States. Very few victims of THB applying for asylum are granted refugee status or subsidiary protection as they have enormous difficulties to express their individual story because they are most of the time under influence, are not always aware of their rights in relation to their specific situation and went through traumatic experiences. Moreover, the asylum application can be used by criminal networks exploiting victims to make sure they legally stay on the territory. The situation of this specific vulnerable group requires a very specific answer that will result from a complementary accompaniment from a range of actors (i.e. regarding social and legal support, health, security issues, etc.).
Year 2016
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8 Project

Cultural Centres and Guest Worker Integration in Stuttgart, Germany, 1960–1976

Authors Mark E. Spicka
Year 2014
Journal Name Immigrants & Minorities
10 Journal Article

Refugee Health: A Moral Discussion

Authors A. M. Ozgumus, P. E. Ekmekci
Year 2018
Journal Name Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
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12 Journal Article

The right to education of children and youngsters from refugee families in Europe

Authors Miquel Àngel Essomba
Year 2017
Journal Name Intercultural Education
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15 Journal Article

Note on International Protection

Year 2022
Journal Name International Journal of Refugee Law
16 Journal Article

Mauritian Courts and the Protection of the Rights of Asylum Seekers in the Absence of Dedicated Legislation

Authors Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi
Year 2019
Journal Name International Journal of Refugee Law
17 Journal Article

Asylum seekers, refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPS) in Georgia : the challenges of social cohesion

Authors Natia CHELIDZE
Description
Since the 1990s, Georgia has been facing one of its most severe problems: the resettlement and socioeconomic integration of internally displaced persons from Abkhazia and Tskhinvali region who fled as a result of internal armed conflicts. Over the past few years, the number of IDPs has increased due to the inflow of foreign nationals seeking to obtain either a refugee or a humanitarian status. These numbers have further increased following the obligation assumed by the authorities of Georgia to repatriate the Meskhetian Turks exiled in an organized way from Georgia in 1944. Although the definition of internally displaced persons provided in the legislation of Georgia does not include ecological migrants displaced due to the natural calamities, this explanatory note will also touch upon the issues of resettlement of eco-migrants along with the complex task of resettlement of the Meskhetian Turks and IDPs from Abkhazia and Tskhinvali region as well as the unified state approach to address their problems.
Year 2013
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18 Report

Birth Outcomes among Descendants of Foreign-Born and US-Born Women in California: Variation by Race and Ethnicity

Authors Theresa Andrasfay
Year 2021
Journal Name Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
Citations (WoS) 3
19 Journal Article

How voluntary are voluntary returns?

Authors Frances Webber
Year 2011
Journal Name Race & Class
21 Journal Article

When Law Forgets: Coherence and Memory in the Determination of Stateless Palestinian Refugee Claims in Canada

Authors Joshua Blum
Year 2020
Journal Name International Journal of Refugee Law
23 Journal Article

Study on the assessment of the extent of different types of trafficking (sexual exploitation, labour exploitation, organs etc.) in EU countries

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Year 2008
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24 Project

Welfare Chauvinism, Economic Insecurity and the Asylum Seeker “Crisis”

Authors Boris Heizmann, Alexander Jedinger, Anja Perry
Year 2018
Journal Name Societies
Citations (WoS) 1
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25 Journal Article

Guest or Temporary Foreign Worker Programs

Year 2015
Book Title Handbook of the Economics of International Migration
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27 Book Chapter

No Country of one’s own: an advisory report on treaty protection for stateless persons in the Netherlands

Authors Adviesraad Migratie, Adviescommissie voor Vreemdelingenzaken or Members of the Advisory Committee on Migration Affairs (ACVZ)
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Year 2014
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28 Report

Geen land te bekennen: een advies over de verdragsrechtelijke bescherming van staatlozen in Nederland

Authors Adviesraad Migratie, Adviescommissie voor Vreemdelingenzaken or Members of the Advisory Committee on Migration Affairs (ACVZ)
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Year 2013
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29 Report

Stateless in School: The ‘discomfort’ of Kurdish asylum seekers

Authors Ailbhe Kenny
Year 2022
Journal Name Intercultural Education
Citations (WoS) 1
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31 Journal Article

Asylum Seekers in Scotland: The Accommodation of Diversity

Authors Duncan Sim, Alison Bowes
Year 2007
Journal Name Social Policy & Administration
Citations (WoS) 24
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32 Journal Article

Forced migration management and politics of scale: how scale shapes refugee and border security policy

Authors Josh Watkins
Year 2021
Journal Name Globalizations
Citations (WoS) 2
34 Journal Article

Health, Integration and Agency: Sport Participation Experiences of Asylum Seekers

Authors Clemens Ley, Felix Karus, Lisa Wiesbauer, ...
Year 2020
Journal Name Journal of Refugee Studies
Citations (WoS) 8
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36 Journal Article

Arrived, Yet In-between: Experiences of Iranian Asylum-Seeker Women Living with Insecure Residency in Australia

Authors Sara Shishehgar, Sara Shishehgar, Leila Gholizadeh, ...
Year 2023
Journal Name Journal of International Migration and Integration
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37 Journal Article

Note on International Protection

Year 2024
Journal Name International Journal of Refugee Law
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38 Journal Article

Understanding Public Knowledge and Attitudes towards Trafficking in Human Beings: A Cross-National Study

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Year 2013
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39 Project

Contemporary Compulsory Dispersal and the Absence of Space for the Restoration of Trust

Authors P. Hynes
Year 2008
Journal Name JOURNAL OF REFUGEE STUDIES
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42 Journal Article

Statelessness in the United States: A Study to Estimate and Profile the US Stateless Population

Authors Donald Kerwin, Daniela Alulema, Michael Nicholson, ...
Year 2020
Journal Name Journal on Migration and Human Security
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43 Journal Article

Demand in the context of trafficking in human beings in the domestic work sector in France

Authors Florence LEVY
Description
The fight against trafficking in human beings (THB) is now part of the French political agenda. Yet the priority is given to the fight against sexual exploitation while labour exploitation is still regarded as a minor phenomenon. The particular issue of exploitation in domestic work has not been considered on its own even if France has been condemned twice by the European Court of Human Rights for failing to protect victims in two cases of exploitation in domestic work. Since then, the law has been amended, and we have to wait until we can assess the effectivity of this new legal framework. The issue of demand remains a blind spot in terms of how THB is understood. The public declarations of government’s commitment to the fight against THB provide a contrast with the low number of convictions actually brought down by the courts. The research highlights the difficulties faced by labor inspectorates and legal actors in establishing cases of THB in domestic work. This is linked with the characteristic of this work sector, but also with confusions in the understanding of what is THB, what are the victims and perpetrators profiles and the tensions between the fight against illegal immigration and the mission to protect victims of THB.
Year 2016
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Distrust and Collaboration: Exploring Identity Negotiation among Asylum Seekers in East Anglia, Britain

Authors Sophia Rainbird
Year 2012
Journal Name JOURNAL OF INTERCULTURAL STUDIES
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45 Journal Article

Asylbewerber- und Flüchtlingsbefragung

Principal investigator Herbert Brücker (Principal Investigator), Yuliya Kosyakova (Principal Investigator)
Description
Durch die Asyl- und Flüchtlingsbefragung werden erstmals umfassende Erkenntnisse über die Asylbewerber und Flüchtlinge in Deutschland gewonnen. Diese Erkenntnisse sollen die Arbeitsmarktpolitik auf dem Gebiet der Integration von Asylbewerbern und Flüchtlingen unterstützen. Die Schaffung dieser Datenbasis ermöglicht es der BA, andere Entscheidungsträger in Deutschland und Europa auf dem Gebiet der Flüchtlings- und Migrationspolitik durch evidenzbasierte Politikberatung zu unterstützen. Weiterhin wird eine Datenbasis für die Forschung über die Arbeitsmarktintegration von Zuwanderern und im besonderen von Asylsuchenden und Flüchtlingen geschaffen. Projektmethode Befragung Projektziel Schaffung einer Datenbasis, die sowohl zur Politikberatung als auch zur Forschung zu Themen der gesellschaftlichen und Arbeitsmarktintegration von Asylbewerbern und Flüchtlingen verwendet werden kann.
Year 2015
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46 Project

The Guest-Worker in Western Europe — An Obituary

Authors Stephen Castles
Year 1986
Journal Name International Migration Review
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47 Journal Article

UK Dispersal Policy and Onward Migration: Mapping the Current State of Knowledge

Authors E. S. Stewart
Year 2011
Journal Name JOURNAL OF REFUGEE STUDIES
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48 Journal Article

How to be a ‘Good Asylum Seeker’? The Subjectification of Young Men Seeking Asylum

Authors Maria Petäjäniemi, Maija Lanas, Mervi Kaukko
Year 2021
Journal Name Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Citations (WoS) 3
49 Journal Article
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