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I am a Ph.D. student in Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. Born and raised in China, I lived in Seoul for four years before moving to New York in 2023 to begin my doctoral studies.

I study the relationship between people and nation-states, particularly in the context of immigration. I am interested in how states incorporate or exclude immigrants and ethnic minorities, how people respond to state policies, and how ethnic and national identifications endure or change.

To get the data, I draw on in-depth interviews and computational text analysis.