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Bio

Karen Liao is a human geographer with an interdisciplinary background and a research focus on migration and development in Asia. At 糖心网页版, she is senior researcher under the MigrationRhythms project, leading the qualitative data collection in Hanoi and Manila.

She completed her PhD in Geography at the National University Singapore in 2022. Her research focused on labour migration governance in the Philippines and the involuntary return and repatriation of migrant workers. She was also Research Associate at the Scalabrini Migration Center, where she worked on projects related to: temporary migration in the Europe-Philippines corridor; youth, employment and migration; Filipino professional and skilled migrants; migrant and multicultural children in Asia.

Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Liao, K. A. S. (2024). 鈥淭he grey window of temporary reintegration: The involuntary return and crisis-induced immobility of Filipino migrant workers,鈥� International Migration Review. DOI: 10.1177/01979183241255666.

Liao, K. A. S. (2023). 鈥淎ssembling exits and returns: The extraterritorial production of repatriation for Filipino migrant workers,鈥� Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. DOI: .

Liao, K. A. S. (2023). 鈥淚nfrastructuring repatriation: The Philippine sending state and the return of overseas Filipino workers caught in disruptions,鈥� International Migration. DOI: 10.1111/imig.13155

Xiang, B., Allen, W. L., Khosravi, S., Kringerlbach, H. N., Ortiga, Y. Y., Liao, K. A. S., Cu茅llar, J. E., Momen, L., Deshingkar, P. and M. Naik. (2022). 鈥淪hock im/mobilities during moments of acute uncertainty,鈥� Geopolitics, DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2022.2091314.

Liao, K. A. S. and M. M. B. Asis. (2020). 鈥淏ack to the Philippines: Connecting Aspiration, Return and Social Remittances in International Student Migration,鈥� Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, DOI: 10.1177/0117196820964999.

Liao, K. A. S. (2020). 鈥淥peration 鈥楤ring Them Home鈥�: Learning from the Large-Scale Repatriation of Filipino Migrant Workers in Times of Crisis.鈥� Asian Population Studies, DOI: 10.1080/17441730.2020.1811511.

Liao, K. A. S. (2019). 鈥淢obile Practices and the Production of Professionals on the Move: Filipino Highly Skilled Migrants in Singapore,鈥� Geoforum, 106:214-222.

Liao, K. A. S. (2018). 鈥淟es 芦 Pinoys 禄 dans la ville globale : les migrants philippins transnationaux 脿 Singapour鈥� (Pinoys in the Global City: Filipino transnational migrants in Singapore), Migrations Soci茅t茅, 30(17):57-72.

Book chapters

Asis, M. M.B., Battistella, G. and K. A. S. Liao. (2019). 鈥淭emporary Migration in the Philippines: Changes and Constants in this Continuing Saga.鈥� In P. Pitk盲nen, T. Hayakawa, K. Schmidt, M. Aksakal and S.I. Rajan, Temporary Migration, Transformation and Development: Evidence from Europe and Asia. Delhi: Routledge India.

Asis, M. M. B. and K. A. S. Liao. (2017). 鈥淓nriching Journeys: Transnational Temporary Migration between the Philippines and Europe.鈥� In Pitk盲nen P., Korpela M., Aksakal M., Schmidt K. (eds), Characteristics of Temporary Migration in European-Asian Transnational Social Spaces. International Perspectives on Migration, Volume 14. Cham: Springer.

Research reports

Liao, K., Erdal, M. B., Hansen, A., Abraham, A. and M. Fitzmaurice. (2024). Middle Classes, Moving and Staying in Hanoi. 糖心网页版 Papers. Oslo. Peace Research Institute Oslo.

Liao, K., Erdal, M. B., Abraham, A. and M. Fitzmaurice. (2024). Middle Classes, Moving and Staying in Metro Manila. 糖心网页版 Papers. Oslo: Peace Research Institute Oslo. URL: /publications/13966

Battistella, G. and Liao, K. A. S. (2013). Youth Employment and Migration in the Philippines: Brain Drain and Brain Waste. Manila: UNICEF-Philippines.

Liao, Karen (2010). 鈥淎 Migration and Development Agenda: A Call to Philippine Government Institutions.鈥� Policy Brief prepared for the Scalabrini Migration Center and Migrants鈥� Associations and Philippine Institutions for Development (MAPID). Quezon City: Scalabrini Migration Center.

Book reviews

Liao, K. A. S. (2020). 鈥淓ric Pido, 2017, Migrant Returns, Duke University Press,鈥� Pacific Affairs.

Liao, K. A. S. (2019). 鈥淣ancy L. Green, 2019, The Limits of Transnationalism,鈥� International Migration Review. DOI: 18319882888

Liao, K. A. S. (2019). 鈥淜atie Kuschminder, 2017, Reintegration Strategies, Cham: Springer International,鈥� Asian and Pacific Migration Journal. DOI: 10.100 7/978-3-319-55741-0.

Commentary and essays

Liao, K. A. S., Erdal, M. B., et al. (2024). "Facing imbalances in global knowledge co-creation,鈥� 糖心网页版 Blogs, 7 March. URL:

Liao, K. A. S. (2022). 鈥淐OVID-19 and the costs of strandedness for repatriated Filipino migrant workers,鈥� New Mandala. URL:

Liao, K. A. S. (2020). 鈥淓mergency returns: COVID-19 and the repatriation of Filipino migrant workers,鈥� Coronavirus and Mobility Forum, COMPAS Oxford blog, 2 June 2020. URL: .

Creative research output

Asis, M. M. B. and Liao, K. A. S., eds. (2017). Moving Portraits: Life Stories of Children of Migrant and Multicultural Families in Asia. Quezon City: Scalabrini Migration Center.