Previously, Frank Pieke headed the COMPAS Programme on 'Sending Contexts'. He is University Lecturer of the Modern Politics and Society of China and a Fellow of St Cross College, and has been elected University Assessor for 2005-6.
He has a background in Cultural Anthropology and has written or contributed to various books including: 'Transnational Chinese: Fujianese Migrants in Europe', 'Recent Trends in Chinese Migration to Europe', and 'The Overseas Chinese in Europe'.
Frank has worked on contemporary China, Chinese migration and the overseas Chinese for many years, carrying out major research projects of Chinese migration funded by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and the ESRC.
Current Projects:
The Links between Internal and International Mobility: Skilled and Unskilled Labour Migrants from the People's Republic of China
Migration and Development
Longitudinal study: Chinese Student Migration
Most recent publications:
Pieke, F. (2004) Transnational Chinese: Fujianese Migrants in Europe. Stanford: Stanford University Press (first author with Pál Nyíri, Mette Thunø and Antonella Ceccagno)
Pieke, F. (2004) Contours of an Anthropology of the Chinese State: Political Structure, Agency and Economic Development in Rural China. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Pieke, F. (2004) Transnational Villages in Fujian: Local Reasons for Migration to Europe. International Migration Review (second author with Mette Thunø)