Amanda Cheong, Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, receives an International Union for the Scientific Study of Population and Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (IUSSP CRVS) fellowship. The IUSSP promotes the scientific study of population, encourage exchange between researchers around the globe, and stimulate interest in population issues.
The IUSSP Scientific Panel on Population Perspectives and Demographic Methods to Strengthen Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems will guide and support selected fellows in their research over the course of the fellowship. Fellows will be mentored in the development of a scholarly paper, over the course of the fellowship.
Professor Cheong’s ethnographic field research examines why people get left out of civil registration systems, and its impacts on people’s lives, as well as Malaysia’s development aspirations. The proposed project for this fellowship is to evaluate the cross-national interoperability of birth registration systems, with a focus on children born to overseas migrant workers in Southeast Asia.
