Research Area:

• International Migration

• Comparative Citizenship

• Diaspora

Research Grant: 

1. 2014-2016. ‘The Malaysian Diaspora in Australia: Perception towards the state’s single nationality principle.’ Universiti Sains Malaysia, Short Term Grants, Principal Investigator

2. 2014-2017. ‘Establishing a Deportation Model of Undocumented Migrants in Malaysia’. Ministry of Higher Education, Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS), Principal Investigator

3. Taiwan Fellowship. ‘Citizenship and Migration: Comparing Immigrant Citizenship in Taiwan and China’.

4. 2016-2019. ‘Marriage Migration in Malaysia: Examining the Need for Marital Citizenship and Immigration Reform’. Universiti Sains Malaysia, Research University Grants, Principal Investigator

5. 2019-2020. ‘Irregular Migration in Malaysia,’ Universiti Sains Malaysia, Bridging Grants, Principal Investigator

Research Publication:

English Language Articles

1. Low Choo Chin. (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. doi: 10.1163/15700615-13120206

2. Low Choo Chin (2014). The Repatriation of the Chinese as a Counter-insurgency policy during the Malayan Emergency. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 45 (3): 363-392. doi:10.1017/S0022463414000332

3. Low Choo Chin (2014). The 1963 Strasbourg Convention on Single Nationality Movement: The German Experience. Journal on European History of Law. 5 (2): 41-50. ISSN 2042-6402

4. Low Choo Chin (2015). Same System, Different Outcomes: Comparing the Implementation of Dual Nationality Treaties in East Germany and China. Europe-Asia Studies. 67 (10): 1656-1684. doi: 10.1080/09668136.2015.1095859 [

5. Low Choo Chin (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. doi: 10.1007/s12134-014-0362-4

6. Low Choo Chin. (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.

7. Low Choo Chin and Sah-Hadiyatan Ismail. (2015). The Unwelcome Consuls: The Contested Appointment of Chinese Consuls in Colonial Malaya. Kemanusiaan: The Asian Journal of Humanities. 22 (1): 75-99.

8. Low Choo Chin. (2015) China’s Citizenship Diplomacy at Bandung: An Evaluation from the British Perspective. New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 17 (1): 41-64. ISSN 1174-8915

9. Low Choo Chin (2015). Détente, Recognition and Citizenship: The Case of East Germany. Region: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. 4 (2): 265-89. doi: 10.1353/reg.2015.0010

10. Low Choo Chin (2015) Migration and Citizenship: Legal and Political Aspect in the German Context. Chronica Mundi. 10(1): 26-64. eISSN 2282-0094

11. Ang Siew Mun, Choik Phaik Fern & Low Choo Chih (2015). Between ethnicization and globalisation: Mediating contesting cultural identities of Malaysian youths. Geografia-Malaysian Journal of Society and Space, 11(3): 73-82. e-ISSN: 2682-7727

12. Low Choo Chin. (2016). The politics of citizenship in divided nations: Policies and Trends in Germany and China, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 49 (2): 123-135. doi: 10.1016/j.postcomstud.2016.04.006

13. Low Choo Chin (2016). The Politics of Emigration and Expatriation: Ethnicization of Citizenship in Imperial Germany and China, Journal of Historical Sociology, 29 (3): 385-412. doi : 10.1111/johs.12085

14. Low Choo Chin (2016). The Malaysian Chinese Diaspora in Melbourne: Citizenship and Belongingness. Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 24 (1), 257-76. ISSN: 0128-7702

15. Low Choo Chin. (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. doi:10.1353/ras.2016.0010

16. Low Choo Chin (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. ISSN 2180-3250

17. Low Choo Chin (2016). De-ethnicization and De-sinicization: Reconstructing the Boundaries of Citizenship in China and Taiwan. ChiMoKoJa: Histories of China, Mongolia, Korea, and Japan, Vol 2 (1): 47-70. ISBN: 1-4438-8041-8

18. Low Choo Chin (2017). Malaysian Diaspora Philanthropy: Transnational Activism, mobilization and resistance. Diaspora Studies, 10 (2): 152-174.

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20. Low Choo Chin and Khairiah Salwa Mokhtar (2017). Migration Control in Malaysia: Shifting Toward Interior Enforcement. Asia Pacific Social Science Review. 16 (3): 46-64. ISSN 0119-8386

21. Low Choo Chin (2017). A Malaysia of Citizens: Ethnicity, Membership and Politics of Merger. Kemanusiaan: The Asian Journal of Humanities, 24 (2): 1-30. doi: 10.21315/kajh2017.24.2.1

22. Low Choo Chin and Khairiah Salwa Mokhtar (2017). Deportation Turn in Malaysia: Expansion, Discourse, and Practice. Journal of Population and Social Studies. 25 (2): 147-166. doi: 10.25133/jpssv25n2.006

23. Low Choo Chin (2017). “A Strategy of Attrition through Enforcement: The Unmaking of Irregular Migration in Malaysia”. Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs. 37 (2): 101-136. https://doi.org/10.1177/186810341703600204

24. Low Choo Chin (2018). “MyOverseasVote: Liberalism and Extraterritorial Citizenship”. Citizenship Studies 22(7): 745-768. doi: 10.1080/13621025.2018.1508416

25. Low Choo Chin (2019). “Extraterritorial Migration Control in Malaysia: Militarized, Externalized and Regionalized”. Regions & Cohesion 9(3): 1-28. doi: 10.3167/reco.2019.090302

26. Low Choo Chin (2020). “De-commercialization of the Labor Migration Industry in Malaysia”. Southeast Asian Studies, 9(1), 27-65. doi: 10.20495/seas.9.1_27

27. Low Choo Chin (2020). “Migrant Labour Recruitment Reform in Malaysia: Towards Ethical and Zero-Cost Migration.” Otoritas: Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan, 10 (2), 142-164. https://doi.org/10.26618/ojip.v10i2.4641

28. Low Choo Chin (2021). “Legal Reforms in Protecting Migrant Workers’ Welfare in Malaysia: Labor Laws and Social Security”. Austrian Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 14(1), 59-80. doi: 10.14764/10.ASEAS-0048

29. Low Choo Chin (2021). “Back for Good: Reforms in Legalization and Amnesty Programs in Malaysia”. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia), 177 (2-3): 344–378. doi:10.1163/22134379-bja10030

30. Low Choo Chin (2021). “The historical development of the nature of desirability in naturalisation regimes in East and Southeast Asia”. Citizenship Studies 25 (4): 491-513. doi: 10.1080/13621025.2021.1926096

31. Low Choo Chin (2021). “Digitalization of Migration Management in Malaysia: Privatization and the Role of Immigration Service Providers.” Journal of International Migration and Integration, 22 (4): 1599 – 1627. doi: 10.1007/s12134-021-00809-1

32. Low Choo Chin (2023). “Migtech, Fintech, and Fair Migration in Malaysia Addressing the Protection Gap between Migrant Rights and Labour Policies” Third World Quarterly, 44 (5), 872-891. doi: 10.1080/01436597.2022.2162380

33. Low Choo Chin (2023). “Remedying Unethical Recruitment in Malaysia’s Transnational Labour Migration Governance”. JATI: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 28 (1): 1-27. doi: 10.22452/jati.vol28no1.1

Malay Language Articles

1. Low Choo Chin. (2014). Aspirasi Liberalisme, Nasionalisme and Sosialisme Dalam Menginterpretasi Revolusi 1848 di Jerman. Jurnal Sejarah. 23 (2): 1-22. doi: 10.22452/sejarah.vol23no2.1

2. Low Choo Chin (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. ISSN: 0126-5644

3. Low Choo Chin (2019). Hitlerism, Anti-Semitisme dan Interpretasi Holocaust. Jurnal Sejarah. 28 (1): 34-54. doi: 10.22452/sejarah.vol28no1.3

4. Low Choo Chin (2020). Dwikerakyatan dalam Komanwel di Persekutuan Tanah Melayu: Antara Persoalan Kesetiaan dan Persoalan Prinsip. Jurnal Sejarah, 29 (2): 120-138. doi: 10.22452/sejarah.vol29no2.7

Book

1. Low Choo Chin. (2013). Isu Dwi-kerakyatan dalam pembentukan Kewarganegaraan Malaysia: 1900-1965 [Dual citizenship issues during the formation of Malaysian nationality, 1900-1965]. Penang: Universiti Sains Malaysia (pp 1-185).  ISBN: 9789838615709

Book Chapters

1. 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, (pp. 241-254). London: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781138601130

2. Low Choo Chin. (2017). “Reconciling Marital Citizenship in Malaysia through Activism: Motherhood and Belongingness”. In A. Fresnoza-Flot and G. Ricordeau, International Marriages and Marital Citizenship: Southeast Asian Women on the Move (pp. 59-77). London: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780367207885

3. Low Choo Chin (2021) “The Malayan Emergency and the Desinicization of the Malayan Chinese”. In Jeremy Taylor and Xu Lanjun, Chineseness and the Cold War:Contested Cultures and Diaspora in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong. (pp. 45-60) London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003211976-3

4. Low Choo Chin (forthcoming 2023) “Citizenship, Nationality, and the Treatment of Aliens”. In David Law, Holning Lau and Alex Schwartz, Oxford Handbook of Constitutional Law in Asia. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

5. Low Choo Chin (in press) “Nasionalisme dan Politik Kerakyatan Semasa Darurat”. In Azmi Ariffin, Pemikiran Politik, Kolonialisme Dan Nasionalisme Di Malaysia. Penang: Universiti Sains Malaysia Press.

6. Low Choo Chin (in press) “Perubahan dan Persambungan Polisi Pengurusan Pekerja Asing di Malaysia, 1980-2020”. In Azmi Ariffin and Mahani Musa, Isu-Isu Persejarahan Malaysia Pasca Pru-14. Penang: Universiti Sains Malaysia Press.

7. Low Choo Chin (in press) “Family Reunification and Immigration Law in Malaysia”. In Jill Goldenziel, Kevin Cope and Stella Elias”. Oxford Handbook of Comparative Immigration Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Country Report/Book Review/Policy Paper/Proceedings

1. 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, pp. 1-34.

2. 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, pp.1-39.

3. Low Choo Chin (2017). In Defence of National Identity: The Dual Citizenship Debates in Singapore. Commentaries - EUDO Citizenship Observatory. Italy: Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies & European University Institute.

4. Chiok Phaik Fern, Low Choo Chin, and Ang Siew Mun (2012) Malaysian Culture: Views of Educated Youths about Our Way Forward. International Proceedings of Economics Development and Research 48 (1): 1–5. doi: 10.7763/IPEDR. 2012.

5. Khairiah Salwa Mokhtar and Low Choo Chin (2015). Policy Paper entitled “Pengurusan Pendatang Asing Tanpa Izin melalui Kempen Kesedaran dan Kempen Maklumat,” (Management of Illegal Immigrants through Awareness and Information Campaigns) in Collaboration with the Immigration Affairs Division (Ministry of Home Affairs) 10/08/2015 - 31/12/2015.

6. Low Choo Chin (2020) Irregular Migration and Immigrant Legalisation in Malaysia. European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences, pp.153-158. DOI: 10.15405/epsbs.2020.03.03.19.

7. Low Choo Chin (2022). Book Review: Safe Migration and the Politics of Brokered Safety in Southeast Asia (By Sverre Molland). International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies. 18 (2): 339-345. doi: 10.21315/ijaps2022.18.2.6

8. Low Choo Chin (2023). Book Review: Ethnic Dissent and Empowerment: Economic Migration Between Vietnam and Malaysia (By Ngoc Tran, Angie). International Migration Review. 57 (1): 477-480. doi: 10.1177/01979183221105264

PhD (Completed): 

1. Nor Sakinah binti Omar. Managing the deportation of undocumented migrants in Malaysia. Passed Voce Viva in 2023

PhD (On-going): 

1. Li Gang. Research of the Communist Party of China’s Poverty Reduction Theory and Practice from 1957 to 2022

2. Li Chun. The Study on Malaysian Chinese Cultural History Through Cultural Changes and Folk Beliefs

3. Shi XiangKun. Research On the Development of the Chinese Higher Education System During the Anti-Japanese War Period, 1937-1945

4. Mu Lingling. Ethnic Conflict and State Construction in Southeast Asian countries after World War II: A Study of Myanmar from a Global Perspective

Master (Completed): 

1. Norisah Pirin. 2017. 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).

2. Diyaodin bin Hj. Shaari. 2019. Penolakan Brunei dalam Gagasan Malaysia (Brunei’s Rejection of the Malaysian Plan).

3. Tan Hock Chuan. 2022. Hubungan tributari China-Melaka zaman Dinasti Ming dari tahun 1368 hingga 1511 (Sino-Malacca Tributory Relationships during the Ming Dynasty, 1368-1511). (Co-supervisor)

Awards:

1. Excellence Service Award (2016). School of Distance Education, Universiti Sains Malaysia

2. Best Journal Article Award (Humanities and Social Sciences category). (2017). The Malaysian Scholarly Publishing Council and Ministry of Higher Education (MAPIM-KPT).

3. Innovative Teaching Award (2018). School of Distance Education, Universiti Sains Malaysia.

Consultancy:

1. 2016-2017. European Union Democracy Observatory on Citizenship (EUDO CITIZENSHIP), Contract research as a country expert, European University Institute,

2. 2022-2023. ‘Country expert on immigration laws and policies (Malaysia). Migrant Social Protection (MigSP) dataset, University of Bremen.