Jinpu Wang

I am a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bucknell University. My research spans migration, social stratification, political economy, and post-socialist transformation across various fieldwork locations, including Ghana, China, the U.S., and digital platforms like WeChat and Telegram. My work focuses on how political-economic changes in post-socialist China shape the transnational livelihoods of Chinese migrants in Sub-Saharan Africa. Since 2022, I have also been studying irregular migrants from China who enter the U.S. southern border via Central America.

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Primarily, I am an ethnographer, but I have spent a considerable amount of time practicing quantitative methods. Currently, I am learning computational tools for text analysis and archival research. My research further explores state-society relations, contentious politics, and nationalism in authoritarian settings.

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