Pei-Chia Lan

Pei-Chia Lan will dedicate her time at CASBS to writing a book manuscript about the second generation (children of cross-border marriages) in Taiwan. Based on in-depth interviews with sixty young adults whose immigrant mothers emigrated from Southeast Asia or China, this project explores their lived experience and identity formation in the changing multicultural policy regime and broader geopolitical context. These interviews reveal personal narratives and nuanced differences about how they navigate multicultural dividends and geopolitical stigmas to situate themselves. The book develops a typology of boundary work—enforcement, expansion, softening, and contraction—to illustrate their dynamic, interactive identity work. 

Lan is distinguished professor of sociology at National Taiwan University. Her major publications include Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan (Duke 2006), which won a Distinguished Book Award from the Sex and Gender Section of the American Sociological Association and ICAS Book Prize: Best Study in Social Science from the International Convention of Asian Scholars, and Raising Global Families: Parenting, Immigration, and Class in Taiwan and the US (Stanford, 2018). She is the Stanford-Taiwan Social Science fellow for 2024-25.

For more information, please visit: http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~pclan/english.html