About our team

Feng Xu is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Victoria. Her research interests inlcude:

  • Chinese politics
  • Comparative politics (East Asia)
  • Gender politics (especially East Asia)
  • Migration and citizenship
  • Feminist political economy
  • Urbanization

For more information and a full list of publications, see https://www.uvic.ca/socialsciences/politicalscience/people/directory/xufeng.php.

Kendra Strauss is Associate Professor and Director of the Labour Studies Program at SFU. She is also an Associate Member in the Department of Geography. Her research interests include:

  • Feminist political economy
  • Labour geography and feminist economic geography
  • Migration
  • Unfree labour and trafficking
  • Precarious work
  • Social reproduction

For more information and a full list of publications, see http://www.sfu.ca/labour/people/kendra-strauss.html.

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