Prof. Amanda Cheong invited to Vancouver’s US Consulate to discuss her research on statelessness during AAPI Heritage Month in May
Prof. Cheong was invited in thanks for her sharing her research on statelessness, undocumented migration and the history of Asian exclusion as part of last year’s AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander) Heritage Month in May.
Congratulations to Prof. Amanda Cheong for being selected as a SEAREG 2022 Fellow!
Prof. Cheong has been invited to join the tenth class of the Southeast Asia Research Group. The fellowship aims to recognize researchers in the social sciences displaying unusual premise as scholars of Southeast Asia.
Prof. Amanda Cheong’s recent paper details stateless children’s experiences with immigration control and detention
Professor Amanda Cheong’s new article, “Deportable to Nowhere: Stateless Children as Challenges to State Logics of Immigration Control,” made visible the lives of those who have been made legally invisible via the denial of citizenship.
Prof. Amanda Cheong’s parents attend her presentation on statelessness 10 years after her completion of her undergrad thesis on her own family’s experience with the phenomenon
Prof. Amanda Cheong’s honors undergraduate thesis explored her own family’s experience with statelessness. 10 years after her graduation her parents attended her presentation for UBC’s Centre for Migration Studies on her current book project “Omitted Lives: Citizenship and the Politics of the Civil Registration Gap”, which delves into the phenomenon.
Prof. Amanda Cheong to deliver “What’s ‘Vital’ About the Registration of Vital Events?” as part of UBC Centre for Migration Studies Speaker Series
Prof Cheong’s talk will be discussing the registration of vital events as crucial to human rights, focusing on the experiences of undocumented and stateless families struggling to gain official recognition in Malaysia.
Prof. Amanda Cheong and PhD Alum Andrea Polonijo to speak on Canadian Sociological Association panel on the Canadian vs. American Job Market
Prof. Amanda Cheong and PhD Alum Andrea Polonijo to speak on Canadian Sociological Association panel on the Canadian vs. American Job Market, along with University of Windsor Prof. Natalie Delia Deckard and Memorial University Prof. Allyson Stokes.
Prof. Amanda R. Cheong appears as a featured member on American Sociological Association website
Prof. Amanda R. Cheong appears as a featured member on the American Sociological Association’s (ASA) website following testimonial on work supported by ASA grant.
Professor Dr. Amanda Cheong publishes research modeling barriers to health care and birth registration in stateless and migrant populations in Malaysia in Genus Journal
Extending Thaddeus and Maine’s 1994 “three delays” framework to maternal health care and birth registration processes among migrant and stateless populations in Malaysia, UBC Sociology Professor Dr. Amanda Cheong and UMS-UNicef fellow Mary Anne Baltazar find these processes to be cyclical and intergenerational.
Prof. Amanda Cheong publishes paper on how driver’s licenses impact undocumented US immigrants
Dr. Amanda Cheong’s new research with The Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund investigates how driver’s licenses make a difference in the lives of undocumented immigrants in the U.S.A.
Prof. Amanda Cheong joins University of Ottawa Prof. Jamie Liew for project documenting experiences of racialized stateless persons
Cheong and Liew’s project received a SSHRC CRSH Insight Grant to further their research, which will be the first in-depth study of the historical and institutional roots of statelessness in Malaysia.