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Jiemin Bao, Associate Professor
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Interests: Transnationalism, migration, gender and sexuality, Buddhism, Asian Americans; Thailand, Mainland Southeast Asia, China.

Anthropology is finding new significance in interdisciplinary approaches. In the study of transnational migration, identity formation, and cultural citizenship, we must look into the practices and politics of class, gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity in multiple locales. In this way, we will be able to challenge our preexisting assumptions and better understand the relationship between individuals and larger society, between agency and structural constraints, and between past and present.


Selected Publications

  • 2005. Merit-Making Capitalism: Re-territorializing Thai Buddhism in Silicon Valley, California. Journal of Asian American Studies 8(2):115-142.
  • 2005. Chinese in Thailand. Encyclopedia of Diasporas. Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember, & Ian Skoggard, eds. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 751-759.
  • 2004. Marital Acts: Gender, Sexuality, and Identity among the Chinese Thai Diaspora. U Hawaii Press.
  • 2003. The Gendered Biopolitics of Marriage and Migration: A Study of pre-1949 Chinese Immigrants in Thailand. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 34/1:127-151.
  • 1999. Chinese-Thai Transmigrants: Reworking Identities and Gender Relations in Thailand and the United States. Amerasia 25/2: 95-115.
  • 1998. Same Bed, Different Dreams: Intersections of Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality among Middle- and Upper-Class Chinese Immigrants in Bangkok. Positions 6/2: 475-502.