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Dr. Jingyu Mao is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh's School of Social and Political Science, specializing in the Department of Sociology. Her work focuses on migration, work, emotions, intimacy, and inequality in contemporary China. She holds a monograph titled Intimacy as a Lens on Work and Migration, examining rural-urban migrants in Southwest China's ethnic performance industries. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Bielefeld University (Germany) for the ERC-funded WelfareStruggles project, analyzing migrant worker welfare in China and Vietnam. She remains a research associate there and has held visiting fellowships at Würzburg University's Sinology Department.
Dr. Mao’s research bridges sociology of emotions, migration studies, and gender/ethnicity analysis, addressing intersections of rural-urban divides, ethnicity, and gender in China. Her work emphasizes intimate consequences of inequality and the role of intimacy in understanding systemic disparities. She is based at the Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square, Edinburgh, UK.
Her research interests span:
- Sociology of Emotions
- Work and Migration
- Rural-urban inequality
- Ethnicity and Gender
- Labour and Welfare
Publications highlight themes like migrant welfare in global factories, emotional reflexivity in China’s hukou system, and gender dynamics in border struggles. She collaborates internationally on projects like Rural Futures in Late Socialist Asia and Worldmaking from a Global Perspective. Her work contributes to understanding how intimate relationships intersect with broader structural inequalities and policy frameworks.
