HO LYNN-EE, ELAINE

Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho is Professor at the Department of Geography and Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University of Singapore (NUS). She is currently Vice-Dean of the FASS Research Division and was the former Chair of the faculty-level FASS Migration Cluster. Her research addresses how citizenship is changing as a result of multi-directional migration flows in the Asia-Pacific. She is author of Citizens in Motion: Emigration, Immigration and Re-migration Across China's Borders (2019, Stanford University Press), which received the American Sociological Association's (ASA) "Best Book in Global and Transnational Sociology by an International Scholar" award in 2019. The monograph conceptualises the spatial complexity and temporal co-evalness of migration, and further advances theorisation of co-ethnic and inter-ethnic relations.

Elaine has published widely on diaspora engagement and is now extending her research to two new domains: (1) transnationalism, ageing and care in the Asia-Pacific, and (2) internal displacement at the China-Myanmar border, focusing on border im/mobilities, diaspora action and transnational aid. She is currently Editor of the journal Social and Cultural Geography. She was appointed Dean's Chair at the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) in 2019.