The Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

Books

Making Order from Transnational Migration (working title). Princeton University Press. Forthcoming.

Global "Body Shopping": An Indian International Labor System in the Information Technology Industry . Princeton University Press. 2007.

Transcending Boundaries . Translated by Jim Weldon based on Kuayue Bianjie de Shequ . Brill Academic Publishers. 2005.

Articles

Xiang Biao. 2007. The Making of Mobile Subjects: How Institution Reform and Outmigration Intersect in Northeast China. Development . 50 (4). 69-74. Click here for the full article

Xiang Biao. 2007. Productive Outflow of Skills: What India and China Can Learn from Each Other. Asian Population Studies. Vol. 3, No. 2, July: 115-133. Click here for the full article

Xiang Biao. 2007. How Far Are the Left-behind Left Behind? A Preliminary Study in Rural China . Place, Space and Population. Volume 13, Issue 3. 179-191. Click here for the full article

Xiang Biao. 2005. Gender, Dowry and the Migration System of Indian Information Technology Professionals. Indian Journal of Gender Studies. Vol. 12 No. 2&3: 357-380. Click here for the full article

Xiang Biao and Tan Shen. 2005. Does Migration Research Matter in China ? A Review of Migration Research and its Relations to Policy Since the 1980s. International Journal on Multicultural Societies. Vol. 7, No. 1: 11-32. Click here for the full article

Xiang Biao. 2004. Towards an Emigration Study: A South Perspective. Economic and Political Weekly. August 21: 3798-3803. Click here for the full article

Xiang Biao. 2003. SARS and Migrant Workers in China . Asian and Pacific Migration Journal. 12 (4): 467-499. Click here for abstract

Xiang Biao. 2003. Emigration from China : A Sending Country's Perspective. International Migration. 41 (3): 21-48. Reprinted in Liu Hong ed. The Chinese Overseas . Routledge. 2005, forthcoming. Click here for the full article

Xiang Biao and T. Wong. 2003. SARS: Public Health and Social Science Perspectives. Economic and Political Weekly . June 21: 2480-3. Click here for the full article

Xiang Biao. 2003. Movement of the People. China in Focus . Issue 13: 11-13, 25.

Xiang Biao. 2001. Structuration of Indian Information Technology Professionals' Migration to Australia : An Ethnographic Study. International Migration . Vol.39 (5) Issue 1/2001: 73-90. Click here for the full article

Xiang Biao. 1999. " Xi ", Relations Cluster, and Creation of a Migrant Community in Contemporary China . Asian and Pacific Migration Journal . Vol. 8, No. 3: 343-59. Click here for abstract

Laurence J. C. Ma and Xiang Biao. 1998. Native Place , Migration and the Emergence of Peasant Enclaves in Beijing . China Quarterly . September. No. 155: 68-103. Reprinted in Frank Pieke ed. The People's Republic of China . The International Library of Social Change. Aldershot : Ashgate. Click here for the full text

Chapters

Xiang Biao. Ethnic Transnational Middle Classes in Formation. In Gayathri Vasudevan and Ashwani Saith eds. Information Technology and India's Development . Sage. forthcoming.

Richard Black, Xiang Biao, Michael Collyer, Godfried Engbersen, Liesbeth Heering and Eugenia Markova. 2006. "Migration and Development: Causes and Consequences." In Rinus Penninx, Maria Berger, Karen Kraal eds. The Dynamics of International Migration and Settlement in Europe : A State of the Art. Amsterdam University Press: 41-64.

Xiang Biao. 2005. Working with Uncertainty. In Govindan Parayil Political Economy and Information Capitalism in India : Digital Divide, Development Divide and Equity . Palgrave Macmillan. 174-195.

Xiang Biao. 2005. An Institutional Approach towards Migration and Health in China . In Santosh Jatrana, Mika Toyota and Brenda Yeoh eds. Migration and Health in Asia . Routledge: 161-176.

Xiang Biao. 2005. Relaciones internacionales y migraciones transnacionales: el caso de China . (International relations and transnational migration: the case of China ) Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals ( Barcelona ), núm. 68: 133-149.

Xiang Biao. 2004. Indian Information Technology Professionals' World System: The Nation and the Transnation in Individuals' Migration Strategy. In Brenda Yeoh and Katie Willis eds. State/Nation/Transnation: Perspectives on Transnationalism in the Asia-Pacific . Routledge: 161-178.

Xiang Biao and Zhao Jian. 2003. Changes in Contemporary Chinese Migration. In World Migration Report 2003 . International Organization for Migration.

Xiang Biao. 2003. Communities Unbound. China Development Brief . Vol. VI No. 1: July.

Xiang Biao. 1999. Zhejiang Village in Beijing : Creating A Visible Non-state Space through Migration and Marketized Traditional Networks. In Frank Pieke and Hein Mallee, eds, Internal and International Migration: Chinese Perspectives . Richmond , Surrey : Curzon Press, 215-250.

Xiang Biao. 1999. Expanding with Congregating: Studies on Migrant Communities in Beijing . In Stephen Fitzpatrick ed. Work and Mobility: Recent Labour Migration Issues in China . Asia Pacific Migration Research Network Working Papers. No. 6: 61-79.

Monographs and Reports

A New Mobility Regime in the Making: What Does a Mobile China Mean to the World. Idées pour le débat N°10/2007. Global Governance. Paris: Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales, 2007.

Migrant Networks and Knowledge Exchange: How China Researches Out to Its Scientific Diaspora. 2005. Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (Chinese and English). More information available here

Migration and Health in China : Problems, Obstacles and Solutions. Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis Research Paper No. 27. 2003. Reprinted as background paper for Regional Conference on Migration and Development in Asia, Lanzhou , China , 14-16 March 2005.

Conference Papers

"The International Mobility of the Highly Skilled and Development: A Comparison of China and India ." United Nations Symposium on International Migration and Development. Turin , Italy , June 28-30, 2006.

"A New Mobility Regime in the Making: Policy Changes and Challenges in Chinese Internal and International Migration." Lecture for officials from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Finance, organized by the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations, Paris . October 16, 2006.

"Manufacturing Legality: Migration Agents in Northeast China and the Neoliberal Order." 209 Lecture, Department of Anthropology, University of California , Berkeley . November 13, 2006.

"'You've Got to Rely on Yourself... and the State!' Labour outmigration and the ideologies about guojia and fa in northeast China ." Paper presented at the 105 th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, November 15-19, 2006, San Jose , California

"Understanding the New Dynamics of Emigration from China ." Kent County Council China Strategy: Seminar discussions, organized by British Inter-university China Centre (BICC), January 10, 2007.

"Making Order from Transnational Migration: Labor, Recruitment Agents and the State in Northeast China ." Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science, February 1, 2007.

"Migration, the Left-behind, and Development." UNICEF regional consultation on Children and Migration, Baku , Azerbaijan . 27-28 March

"Migration, the Left-behind, and Development." UNICEF regional consultation on Children and Migration, Baku , Azerbaijan . 27-28 March, 2007

"Labor Transplant and Transnational Encapsulation." Paper Presented at International Conference Transnational Movement of People in East Asia: Japan in Comparative Focus. National Museum of Ethnology , Osaka , Japan . May 31-June 1, 2007.

"Making Order from Transnational Migration: Labor, Recruitment Agents and the State in Northeast China ." Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science, February 1, 2007.

"Migration, Development and Governance." Caucasus Research Resource Centers program. Baku , Azerbaijan . 27 March, 2007

"Labor Transplant and Transnational Encapsulation." Paper Presented at International Conference Transnational Movement of People in East Asia: Japan in Comparative Focus. National Museum of Ethnology , Osaka , Japan . May 31-June 1, 2007.

"A Ritual Economy of 'Talent:' China and Overseas Chinese Professionals." Paper Presented at International Conference In and Out of Asia : Migrating Talent, Globalising Cities. Singapore . November 19-21, 2007.

Click Here to open a full list of publication including Chinese papers.