Siqi Tu

Siqi Tu is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, where she leads the Mobility Lab (MoLab). Her work focuses on migration, transnational education, and diasporic communities within the political economy of global cities.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Sociology, Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Her research centers on the global mobility of young people, transnational elite education, and emerging diasporic communities. She examines how urban upper-middle-class Chinese families "outsource" secondary education to the United States, documenting the experiences of the "parachute generation" amid geopolitical tensions and the pandemic. Her work engages with transnational elite education, the global middle class, and cross-border citizenship, leading to the concept of "fragile cosmopolitanism".

Scientific Awards: None mentioned.

Dr. Tu has not disclosed specific details regarding her advisory roles or grant funding in the available information.

As the leader of the Mobility Lab, she explores mobility as an intensification of existential concerns and a means for remaking the world. Her current project investigates the quasi-exile mentality of cultural workers from authoritarian regimes who create new spaces for "homeland" narratives beyond the nation-state.