Description of research and teaching

YUAN, Yi (袁毅) is currently a doctoral student at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki. He is interested in research topics related with international student migration/mobility (ISM), including student's lived experiences; liminality and precarity/precariousness; sense of belonging; inclusion/exclusion, experiences of overt forms of racism, discrimination and covert forms of microagression; experiences of bordering practices; decolonialism; phenomenography and phenomenology, etc.

Yuan Yi’s research is supervised by Dr. Markku Sippola, Faculty of Social Sciences (Social policy and migration studies) and Dr. Mari Toivanen, Swedish School of Social Science (Migration studies). 

Research interests:

• International student migration/mobility (ISM)
• Migration/mobility intentions
• Migrant's/mobile individual's lived experiences 
• Liminality and precarity/precariousness
• Sense of belonging
• Maginality, racism, discrimination, microaggression, and bordering practices
• Social inclusion and exclusion
• Coloniality, decoloniality and decolonization 
• Qualitative and quantitative research methods, such as phenomenography and phenomenology

Current Research:

Doctoral research project title:

Being and becoming in liminality: An examination of Chinese international students’ mobility intentions after graduation from Finnish Universities

Education background:

MSSc in Human Geography, 2009, Umeå University, Sweden

Bachelor's degree of Management, 2000, Lanzhou University, China

Professional Experience: