Prof. CHAN Yuk Wah (陳玉華)

BA MPhil PhDCUHK

Dr Yuk Wah Chan is Series Editor of the Routledge Series on Asian Migration (https://www.routledge.com/series/RSAM). Her areas of research cover international migration, borderland, tourism, Vietnam-China relations, identity, and food. Her recent publications include: Diseasescape and immobility governance: COVID-19 and its aftermaths (Mobilities), The politics of sanitization: Pandemic crisis, migration and development in Asia-Pacific (Asian and Pacific Migration Journal), Asian food and culinary politics: Food governance, constructed heritage and contested boundaries (Asian Anthropology) and New Chinese Migrations: Mobility, Home, and Inspirations (Routledge).

• Culture and Change in Asia
• Asian Migration and the Global Diasporas
• Food: Culture, Science and Society
• Tourism, Culture and Development 

• Migration and development
• Migration governance and mobility
• Vietnamese-Chinese relationships
• Vietnamese and Chinese diaspora
• Asian borderlands
• Food, culture and identity in Asia

 Current/Recent Research Projects

• Asian Migration and Diaspora
• Food Relations in Asia
• Diseasescape

Journal Special Issue

• Chan, Yuk Wah and Yvetto To, eds. (2023) Special Issue: In search of a greener pasture: Post-2019 migrations from Hong Kong in American Behavioral Scientist, Online First.
• Chan, Yuk Wah and Pei-Chia Lan, eds. (2022) Special Issue: The politics of sanitization: Pandemic crisis, migration and development in Asia-Pacific, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 31(3): 205-224.
• Chan, Yuk Wah and James Farrer, eds. (2020) Special Issue: Asian food and culinary politics: Food governance, constructed heritage and contested boundaries, Asian Anthropology 20(1): 1-92.
• Chan, Yuk Wah and Bill Pritchard, eds. (Dec 2016) Special Issue: Food Politics and Relations in East Asia: Food Safety, Resilience and Sustainability, Asia-Pacific Viewpoint 56(3): 295-408.
• Chan, Yuk Wah and Brantly Womack, eds. (Aug 2016) Special Issue: Borderlands in Asia: Emergent Conditions and Relations, Asian Anthropology 15(2): 95-206.
• Wee, Vivienne and Chan Yuk Wah, eds. (2006) The Cultural Economy of Regionalisation, Journal of Contemporary Asia 36(3): 325-405.