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Social Sciences Division
Sociology Department
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Sociology
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Rachel Carson College Academic Building
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Rachel Carson College Faculty Services
Labor and work, International migration, Precarious legal status, Precarious work, Citizenship, Labor migration, High-skilled migrant workers, Ethnicity, Gender, Human Trafficking
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Liang, X. (2025) While waiting: Legal-status-making, bureaucratic inscription, and migrants’ labor (im)mobility, Migration Studies, 13(4), mnaf063
Liang, X. (2025). Legal Status Categorization, Transitions, Starting Points as Employment Stratifying Mechanisms: Evidence from US Student-Migrant-Workers. International Migration Review, 0(0).
Liang, X. (2025). Immigration regulations as frame of reference: trade-off between precarious employment and precarious legal status among US student-migrant-workers. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 51(5), 1207-1227.
Liang, X. (2024). Cascading employment as paradigmatic form of precarious work: The case of IT agency workers in the United States. The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 35(4), 959–979. doi:10.1017/elr.2024.57
Liang, X. (2023). Marriage Trafficking: Demand, Exploitation, and Conducive Contexts—A Study in China–Vietnam Border Areas.Violence Agaisnt Women, 29(3-4). 548-579.
Fukurai, H., Gabriel, R., & Liang, X. (2023). The COVID-19 crisis, herd immunity, and “vaccine apartheid” in the age of anthropocene. Asian Journal of Law and Society, 10(1), 1-10.
Book Reviews
Liang, X. (2022). Review of "What's wrong with work? By Lynne Pettinger Bristol", England: Policy Press. (2019). 230pp. AUS $33.68. Paperback. New Technology, Work and Employment. https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12232
Liang, X. (2021). China’s criminal justice institutions-Construction of Guilt: An Empirical Account of Routine Chinese Injustice By Yu MOU Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2020. 280 pp. Hardcover, $79.00. Asian Journal of Law and Society, 8(3), 582-584 https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/ajulsoc8&i=581
Liang, X. (2020). Orphan Relief in China-Anna High, Non-Governmental Orphan Relief in China: Law, Policy, and Practice (New York: Routledge, 2019) pp 174. Hardcover: $53.99. Asian Journal of Law and Society, 7(3), 583-585. https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/ajulsoc7&i=593
Refereed Book Chapters
Liang, M., Chen, W., Liang, X. (2024). Transnational migration, mobility, and identity on the Sino-Vietnamese border, Shanghai People’s Press. ISBN-10: 7208167532. (In Chinese)
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