Overview
Jing Hao Liong is a PhD candidate in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University and a Research Visitor at Monash University Malaysia. His dissertation project is an ethnographic study of Malaysia’s temporary labor migration regime in transition as it responds to increased international pressure around issues of “forced labor” and “modern day slavery.” Specifically, he works with labor recruitment agents, employers, and civil society organizations to examine the implementation of ethical recruitment as an imagined solution to unfree labor practices in both the recruitment process and in various workplace settings. More broadly, his interests include: labor migration, racial capitalism, anthropology of work, and global governance.
Jing holds an M.A. in China Studies (concentration in Literature and Culture) from the Yenching Academy of Peking University and a B.A. in Anthropology and Economics-Political Science from Columbia University.