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Irene Pang is an Assistant Professor at the School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University. Her research focuses on labor, citizenship, and rights contestation in contemporary China and India, with a particular emphasis on low-income migrant construction workers in Beijing and Delhi. She holds a Ph.D., A.M., and B.A. from Brown University and Johns Hopkins University.
Her research explores how marginalized workers navigate relations with capital, the state, and civil society to achieve substantive citizenship. Funded by the National Science Foundation (US), ZEIT-Stiftung (Germany), and institutions at Brown University, her work engages debates on precarious labor and capitalism dynamics.
Publications include studies on labor precarity in Asia and microfinance in Ghana, the latter winning the Terence K. Hopkins Graduate Student Paper Award. She teaches courses such as IS 830 and IS 319, emphasizing analytical approaches to international studies and Chinese development. Contact: irene_pang@sfu.ca.
