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Dr. Low Choo Chin Phone : 04-6533609 Faks : 04-6576000 Emel : lowc@usm.my Comparative citizenship, migration and diaspora studies |
Academic Qualifications:
- PhD (Arts) School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, the University of Melbourne, 2012
- MA (Arts) School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 2007
- B. Ed (Hons) School of Education, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 2005
Key Research Area:
- Comparative Citizenship
- Migration
- Diaspora
- Deportation Studies
Research Grants
- Taiwan Fellowship 2016 Project Title: “Citizenship and Migration: Comparing Immigrant Citizenship in Taiwan and China
- Research University Grant Scheme provided by Universiti Sains Malaysia, 2016-2018 Project Title: “Marriage Migration in Malaysia: Examining the Need for Marital Citizenship and Immigration Reform
- Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS) provided by Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education, 2014 - 2016 Project Title: “Establishing a Deportation Model of Undocumented Migrants in Malaysia
- USM Short-term Grants provided by Universiti Sains Malaysia, 2014 - 2016. Project Title: ‘The Malaysian Diaspora in Australia
Selected Journal Articles:
- Low, C. C. (2017). A Strategy of Attrition through Enforcement: The Unmaking of Irregular Migration in Malaysia. Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 37 (2): 101-136.
- Low, C. C. (2017). Malaysian Diaspora Philanthropy: Transnational Activism, mobilization and resistance. Diaspora Studies, 10 (2): 152-174.
- Low, C. C. (2017). A Malaysia of Citizens: Ethnicity, Membership and Politics of Merger. Kemanusiaan: The Asian Journal of Humanities, 24 (2): 1-30.
- Low. C. C. and Mokhtar, K. S. (2017). Migration Control in Malaysia: Shifting Toward Interior Enforcement. Asia Pacific Social Science Review, 16 (3): 46-64.
- Low, C. C. and Mokhtar, K. S. (2017). Deportation Turn in Malaysia: Expansion, Discourse, and Practice. Journal of Population and Social Sciences, 25 (2): 147-166.
- Low, C. C. (2016). Immigration Control during the Malayan Emergency: Borders, Belonging, and Citizenship, 1948-1960. Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society JMBRAS, 89 (1): 35-59.
- Low, C. C. (2016). The politics of citizenship in divided nations: Policies and Trends in Germany and China, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 49 (2): 123-135.
- Low, C. C. (2016). The Politics of Emigration and Expatriation: Ethnicization of Citizenship in Imperial Germany and China, Journal of Historical Sociology, 29 (3): 385-412.
- Low, C. C. (2016). The Banishment of Anti-Communist Chinese to Formosa: The British as Mediators in Post-war Malaya. International Journal of China Studies, 7 (3): 327-348.
- Low, C. C. (2016). The Malaysian Chinese Diaspora in Melbourne: Citizenship and Belongingness. Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 24 (1): 257-76.
- Low, C. C. (2015). Defending National Identity and National Interests: The Limits of Citizenship Transnationalism in Germany and China. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 16 (3): 717-741.
- Low, C. C. (2015). Same System, Different Outcomes: Comparing the Implementation of Dual Nationality Treaties in East Germany and China. Europe-Asia Studies, 67 (10): 1656-1684.
- Low, C. C. (2015). Debates over Liberalising Dual Citizenship: Prospects and Limits in Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China. International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, 11 (1): 1–33.
- Low, C. C. (2015). China’s Citizenship Diplomacy at Bandung: An Evaluation from the British Perspective. New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies,17 (1): 41-64.
- Low, C. C. (2015). Détente, Recognition and Citizenship: The Case of East Germany. Region: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, 4 (2): 265-89.
- Low, C. C. and Ismail, S. H. (2015). The Unwelcome Consuls: The Contested Appointment of Chinese Consuls in Colonial Malaya. Kemanusiaan: The Asian Journal of Humanities, 22 (1): 75-99.
- Low, C. C. (2014).The Repatriation of the Chinese as a Counter-insurgency policy during the Malayan Emergency. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 45 (3): 363-392.
- Low, C. C. (2014). The 1963 Strasbourg Convention on Single Nationality Movement:The German Experience. Journal on European History of Law, 5 (2): 41-50.
- Low, C. C. (2014). Rakyat British (BOC) dan Legasi Kolonial di Malaysia [British Overseas Citizens and the Colonial Legacy in Malaysia]. Jebat: Malaysian Journal of History, Politics & Strategic Studies, 41 (2): 50-79.
- Low, C. C. (2013). Taiwanese and German Citizenship Reforms: Integration of Immigrants without Challenging the Status Quo, 1990-2000. European Journal of East Asian Studies, 12 (2): 269-294.
Selected Book:
- Low Choo Chin. (2013). Isu Dwi-kerakyatan dalam pembentukan Kewarganegaraan Malaysia: 1900-1965 [Dual citizenship issues in the Formation of Malaysian nationality, 1900-1965]. Penang: Universiti Sains Malaysia.
Chapter in-Books:
- Low Choo Chin. (2017). “Reconciling Marital Citizenship in Malaysia through Activism: Motherhood and Belongingness”. In A. Fresnoza-Flot and G. Ricordeau, Gender, migration and marital citizenship: Revisiting Southeast Asian international marriages, 59-77. London: Taylor & Francis.
- Low Choo Chin. (2016). “The Frontier of Belongingness: Repatriation and Citizenship of the Overseas Chinese in Colonial Malaya”. In Jaime Moreno Tejada and Bradley Tatar, Transnational Frontiers of Asia and Latin America since 1800, 241-254. London: Taylor & Francis.
Other Publications:
- Low Choo Chin. (2017). Report on Citizenship Law: Malaysia and Singapore (RSCAS/GLOBALCIT-CR 2017/3). EUDO Citizenship Observatory. Italy: Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies & European University Institute.
- Low Choo Chin. (2016). Report on Citizenship Law: China and Taiwan (RSCAS/EUDO-CIT-CR 2016/10). EUDO Citizenship Observatory. Italy: Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies & European University Institute.
- JMS 211 Sejarah Politik Tradisional Malaysia (Traditional Political History of Malaysia)
- JMS313E Modern European History
- JMS318 Dokumen-dokumen dalam Sejarah Malaysia (Documents in the History of Malaysia)
PhD
- Nor Sakinah binti Omar
Managing the deportation of undocumented migrants in Malaysia through policy transfer approach. (Co-supervisor). 2016 – current
Master
- Norisah Porin
Perkembangan Adat Memuja Semangat Padi Masyarakat Kadazandusun di Membakut, Sabah, 1960-2010 (The Development of Paddy Spirits Related Ritual Among the Kadazandusun in Membakut, Sabah, 1960-2010). (Main supervisor). Graduated in 2017.
- Diyaodin bin Hj. Shaari
Penolakan Brunei dalam Gagasan Malaysia: Satu Penelitian Terhadap Pendirian Brunei (Brunei’s Rejection of the Malaysian Plan: An Examination of Brunei’s Stance). (Main supervisor). 2017 – current
- Amirul bin Mohd Salleh.
Kawad Maut Sandakan-Ranau, 1944-1945 (Sandakan-Ranau Death March, 1944-1945). (Main supervisor) 2017 – current
Research Grants (As Principal Investigator) :
- Research University Grant Scheme provided by Universiti Sains Malaysia, 2016-2018 Project Title: “Marriage Migration in Malaysia: Examining the Need for Marital Citizenship and Immigration Reform
- Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS) provided by Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education, 2014 - 2016 Project Title: “Establishing a Deportation Model of Undocumented Migrants in Malaysia
- USM Short-term Grants provided by Universiti Sains Malaysia, 2014 - 2016. Project Title: ‘The Malaysian Diaspora in Australia
Fellowship :
- Taiwan Fellowship. 2016. Project Title: “Citizenship and Migration: Comparing Immigrant Citizenship in Taiwan and China.
- Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS) provided by the Australian government, 2009-2012.
- Fellowship of Universiti Sains Malaysia provided by the Ministry of Higher Education, 2008-2012.
Visiting Fellow
- National Taiwan University (Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences), 1 August – 30 September 2016
- Academia Sinica (Institute of Sociology) 1 October – 30 November 2016
Professional Affiliations:
- Member of Global Citizenship Observatory (GlobalCit)
- Member of Asian Population Association (APA)
- Member of German History Society
- Member of Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.
- Member of Persatuan Sejarah Malaysia