Professor Liu-Farrer is a leading scholar of migration studies, and is currently co-editing the Routledge Handbook of Asian Migrations (with Brenda Yeoh). Her research interests in addition to international migration include social stratification and inequality, globalization and international education. Her recent publications include: 2016: Migration as Class-based Consumption: The Emigration of the Rich in Contemporary China,” China Quarterly and 2011: Labor Migration from China to Japan: International Students, Transnational Migrants, Routledge Press.
Professor Farrer is an ethnographer and leading scholar of urban life in Shanghai and Tokyo. His research interests include global cuisines, night life, migration and urban sexual cultures. Recent publications include: (with Andrew Field) 2015: Shanghai Nightscapes: A Nocturnal Biography of a Global City, Univ. of Chicago Press; (edited) 2015: Globalization and Asian Cuisines: Transnational Networks and Contact Zones, Palgrave Press.
