Publications

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Xiang, Biao, Murmann, Maximilian (tran.). 2023. Chinesische Migration und soziale Reproduktion. Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 26-27: 48–54.

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Xiang, Biao. 2023. Transnational migration in an era of power contestation. Baltic Rim Economies (1): 30–31.

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Xiang, Biao and Ranabir Samaddar. 2023. The Russia-Ukraine war: a view from the southern left. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 24(1): 174–180. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2023.2156130.

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Xiang, Biao, William L. Allen, Shahram Khosravi, Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, Yasmin Y. Ortiga, Karen Anne S. Liao, Jorge E. Cuéllar, Lamea Momen, Priya Deshingkar, and Mukta Naik. 2023. Shock mobilities during moments of acute uncertainty. Geopolitics 28(4): 1632–1657. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2022.2091314.

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Xiang, Biao. 2022. How COVID-19 has re-distributed human mobility. Current History 121(838): 304–309. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.2022.121.838.304.

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Xiang, Biao. 2022. The global bazaar economy. Economic Sociology 23(2): 10–14.

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Xiang, Biao. 2022. Remote work, social inequality and the redistribution of mobility. International Migration 60(6): 280–282. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13085.

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Xiang, Biao. 2022. Antisoziale Macht: Absurditäten des COVID-19-Lockdowns in Shanghai. INDES 3-4: 167–177.

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Xiang, Biao and Pal Nyiri. 2022. The re-enchantment of culture and flexible citizenship in a hardening world: ideology and life strategies in middle-class migration to Europe and beyond. Intersections 8(2): 201–206. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17356/ieejsp.v8i2.1059.

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Xiang, Biao. 2021. The nearby: a scope of seeing. Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 8(2-3): 147–165. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/jcca_00042_1.

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Xiang, Biao. 2021. Reproduction-driven labor migration from China. The Georgetown Journal of Asian Affairs 7: 34–43.

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Xiang, Biao. 2021. Introduction: suspension; seeking agency for change in the hypermobile world. Pacific Affairs 94(2): 233–250. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5509/2021942233.

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Xiang, Biao. 2021. 为承认而挣扎：学术发表的现状和未来 [Struggling for recognition: the state of social science publishing and its future]. Journal of Macao Polytechnic Institute (4): 113–119.

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Xiang, Biao. 2021. 临界中的思考 [Thinking on the edge]. Beijing Culture Review 3: 70–79.

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Xiang, Biao. 2021. Suspension: seeking agency for change in the hypermobile world. Pacific Affairs 94(2): 233–250. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5509/2021942233.

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Xiang, Biao. 2020. The gyroscope-like economy: hypermobility, structural imbalance and pandemic governance in China. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 21(4): 521–532. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2020.1832305.

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Lindquist, Johan and Biao Xiang. 2019. Space of mediation: labour migration, intermediaries and the state in Indonesia and China since the nineteenth century. Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales 35(1-2): 39–62. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/remi.12529.

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Lindquist, Johan and Biao Xiang. 2019. 流动，还是被流动：跨国劳务的基础设施 [Moving or being moved: the migration infrastructure in transnational labor mobility]. 社会学评论 [Sociological Review of China] 7(6): 3–17.

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Xiang, Biao and Johan Lindquist. 2018. Infrastructuralization: evolving sociopolitical dynamics in labour migration from Asia. Pacific Affairs 91(4): 759–773. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5509/2018914759.

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Xiang, Biao. 2017. Predicaments of formalization: twenty years' social changes in China as seen through 'Zhejiangcun' in Beijing [正规化的纠结: 北京“浙江村” 和中国社会二十年来的变化]. Twenty-First Century 159: 81–97.

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Weiqiang, Lin, Johan Lindquist, Biao Xiang, and Brenda S. A. Yeoh. 2017. Migration infrastructures and the production of migrant mobilities. Mobilities 12(2): 167–174. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2017.1292770.

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Xiang, Biao. 2017. The base: a case of infrastructural governance of labour outmigration in China. Mobilities 12(2): 175–187. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2017.1292775.

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Xiang, Biao. 2017. Hundreds of millions in suspension. Transitions 1(1): 3–5. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/tjtm.1.1.3_7.

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Xiang, Biao. 2016. Beyond methodological nationalism and epistemological behaviouralism: drawing illustrations from migrations within and from China. Population, Space and Place 22(7): 669–680. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.1929.

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Xiang, Biao, Liu Xiaomeng, and Mark C. Elliot. 2016. '从新清史到满学范式' [From 'new Qing history' to 'Manchu studies paradigm']. Twenty-First Century 157: 4–26.

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Xiang, Biao. 2016. Theory as vision. Anthropological Theory 16(2-3): 213–220. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1463499616660238.

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Barabantseva, Elena, Biao Xiang, and Antonia Chao. 2015. Introduction to "governing marriage migrations: perspectives from mainland China and Taiwan". Cross-Currents 15: 1–8.

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Xiang, Biao and Johan Lindquist. 2014. Migration infrastructure. International Migration Review 48(1): 122–148. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/imre.12141.

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Xiang, Biao. 2014. The would-be migrant: post-socialist primitive accumulation, potential transnational mobility, and the displacement of the present in northeast China. TRaNS 2(2): 183–199. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/trn.2014.3.

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Xiang, Biao. 2014. Space of mediation. Anthropology News 55(12).

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Xiang, Biao. 2013. Multi-scalar ethnography: an approach for critical engagement with migration and social change. Ethnography 14(3): 282–299. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1466138113491669.

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Xiang, Biao and Mika Toyota. 2013. Ethnographic experiments in transnational mobility studies. Ethnography 14(3): 277–281. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1466138113491655.

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Xiang, Biao. 2012. Labor transplant: "point-to-point" transnational labor migration in East Asia. South Atlantic Quarterly 111(4): 721–739. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-1724156.

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Lindquist, Johan, Biao Xiang, and Brenda S. A. Yeoh. 2012. Opening the black box of migration: brokers, the organization of transnational mobility and the changing political economy in Asia. Pacific Affairs 85(1): 7–19. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5509/20128517.

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Xiang, Biao. 2012. Predatory princes and princely peddlers: the state and international labour migration intermediaries in China. Pacific Affairs 85(1): 47–68. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5509/201285147.

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Toyota, Mika and Biao Xiang. 2012. The emerging transnational "retirement industry" in Southeast Asia. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 32(11/12): 708–719. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/01443331211280737.

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Xiang, Biao. 2011. A ritual economy of 'talent': China and overseas Chinese professionals. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 37(5): 821–838. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2011.559721.

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Xiang, Biao and Wei Shen. 2009. International student migration and social stratification in China. International Journal of Educational Development 29(5): 513–522. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2009.04.006.

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Xiang, Biao. 2009. Tackling global uncertainties. City and Society 21(1): 22–27. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-744X.2009.01013.x.

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Pieke, Frank N. and Biao Xiang. 2009. Les Chinois au Royaume-Uni, ou l'illusion de l'immigration choisie. Critique Internationale 45(4): 97–117.

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Pieke, Frank N. and Biao Xiang. 2009. Legality and labour: Chinese migration, neoliberalism and the state in the UK and China. Geopolitics, History, and International Relations 1(1): 11–45.

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Xiang, Biao. 2007. The making of mobile subjects: how migration and institutional reform intersect in northeast China. Development 50(4): 69–74. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.development.1100430.

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Xiang, Biao. 2007. Productive outflow of skills: what India and China can learn from each other. Asian Population Studies 3(2): 115–133. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730701499876.

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Xiang, Biao. 2007. How far are the left-behind left behind? A preliminary study in rural China. Population, Space and Place 13(3): 179–191. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.437.

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Xiang, Biao. 2005. Gender, dowry and the migration system of Indian information technology professionals. Indian Journal of Gender Studies 12(2-3): 357–380. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/097152150501200209.

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Xiang, Biao and Tan Shen. 2005. Does migration research matter in China? A review of its relationship to policy since the 1980s. International Journal on Multicultural Societies 7(1): 11–32.

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Xiang, Biao. 2003. SARS and migrant workers in China: an institutional analysis. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 12(4): 467–499. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/011719680301200403.

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Xiang, Biao. 2003. Emigration from China: a sending country perspective. International Migration 41(3): 21–48. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2435.00240.

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Xiang, Biao. 2001. Structuration of Indian information technology professionals' migration to Australia: an ethnographic study. International Migration 39(5): 73–90. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2435.00172.

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Xiang, Biao. 1999. Xi, relations cluster, and the formation of a migrant community in contemporary China. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 8(3): 343–359. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/011719689900800305.

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Ma, Laurence J. C. and Biao Xiang. 1998. Native place, migration and the emergence of peasant enclaves in Beijing. China Quarterly 155: 546–581. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741000049997.

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Book Chapter (10)

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Book Chapter

Xiang, Biao. 2022. Recognizing the body. In: Centre for Contemporary Art (ed.). Liu Xiaodong: your friends. Hangzhou: Zhejiang Publishing, pp. 110–115.

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Xiang, Biao and Qiang Ma. 2019. Mobility assemblage and the return of Islam in Southeast China. In: Eric Tagliacozzo, Helen F. Siu, and Peter C. Perdue (eds.). Asia inside out: itinerant people 3. Cambridge; London: Harvard University Press, pp. 52–74.

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Lindquist, Johan and Biao Xiang. 2018. The infrastructural turn in Asian migration. In: Gracia Liu-Farrer (ed.). Routledge handbook of Asian migrations. London; New York: Routledge, pp. 152–161.

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Xiang, Biao. 2016. "You've got to rely on yourself ... and the state!" A structural chasm in the Chinese political moral order. In: Carlos Rojas and Ralph Litzinger (eds.). Ghost protocol: development and displacement in global China. Durham; London: Duke University Press, pp. 131–149.

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Xiang, Biao. 2014. The Pacific paradox: the Chinese state in Transpacific interactions. In: Janet Hoskins and Viet Tanh Ngyuen (eds.). Transpacific studies: framing an emerging field. Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, pp. 85–105.

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Book Chapter

Xiang, Biao. 2014. The return of return: migration, Asia and theory. In: Graziano Battistella (ed.). Global and Asian perspectives on international migration. Global Migration Issues 4. Cham: Springer, pp. 167–182.

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Book Chapter

Xiang, Biao. 2013. Return and the reordering of transnational mobility in Asia. In: Biao Xiang, Brenda S. A. Yeoh, and Mika Toyota (eds.). Return: nationalizing transnational mobility in Asia. Asian Studies. Durham; London: Duke University Press, pp. 1–20.

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Xiang, Biao. 2013. Transnational encapsulation: compulsory return as a labor-migration control in East Asia. In: Biao Xiang, Brenda S. A. Yeoh, and Mika Toyota (eds.). Return: nationalizing transnational mobility in Asia. Asian Studies. Durham: Duke University Press, pp. 83–99.

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Book Chapter

Xiang, Biao. 2012. Wind through the woods: ethnography of interfaces between migration and institutions. In: David W. Haines, Keiko Yamanaka, and Shinji Yamashita (eds.). Wind over water: migration in an East Asian context. Foundations in Asia Pacific Studies 2. New York; Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 36–46.

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Book Chapter

Xiang, Biao. 2010. Labour pains. In: Ira Pande (ed.). India, China: neighbours, strangers. Noida; London; Toronto; Scarborough; Sydney; Glenfield; New York: HarperCollins, pp. 252–263.

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Report (1)

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Report

Xiang, Biao. 2016. Emigration trends and policies in China: movement of the wealthy and highly skilled. Washington: Migration Policy Institute.

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Issue (1)

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Issue

Xiang, Biao (ed.). 2021. Suspension: complexed developments and hypermobility in and from China. Pacific Affairs 94(2).

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Other (4)

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Other

Xiang, Biao. 2012. 为什么中国人出国打工费用这么高？[Why do Chinese migrants have to pay so much to work overseas?]. Asia Pacific Memo. https://apm.iar.ubc.ca/%e4%b8%ba%e4%bb%80%e4%b9%88%e4%b8%ad%e5%9b%bd%e4%ba%ba%e5%87%ba%e5%9b%bd%e6%89%93%e5%b7%a5%e8%b4%b9%e7%94%a8%e8%bf%99%e4%b9%88%e9%ab%98%ef%bc%9f/.

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Xiang, Biao. 2009. Compulsory return. IIAS Newsletter 50. International Institute for Asian Studies. https://www.iias.asia/sites/default/files/theNewsletter/2019-06/IIAS_NL50_FULL.pdf#page=8.

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Other

Xiang, Biao. 2009. The changing order of mobility in Asia. IIAS Newsletter 50. International Institute for Asian Studies. https://www.iias.asia/sites/default/files/theNewsletter/2019-06/IIAS_NL50_FULL.pdf#page=5.

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Other

Xiang, Biao. 2008. "Commercial bureaucrats": international labour recruiters and the states in East Asia. Asia Research Institute Newsletter 16. Asia Research Institute. https://ari.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ARI-Newsletter16.pdf#page=8.

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Collected Edition (1)

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Collected Edition

Xiang, Biao, Brenda S. A. Yeoh, and Mika Toyota (eds.). 2013. Return: nationalizing transnational mobility in Asia. Asian Studies. Durham; London: Duke University Press.

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Monograph (5)

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Monograph

Xiang, Biao and Wu Qi, Ownby, David (tran.). 2023. Self as method: thinking through China and the world. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.

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Monograph

Xiang, Biao and Wu Qi, Kim, Yuik, Myungjun Kim, and Zihan Niu (trans.). 2022. 주변의 상실 [The disappearance of the nearby]. Seoul: 글항아리 [Geulhangari].

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Monograph

Xiang, Biao and Qi Wu. 2020. 把自己作为方法：和项飙的对话 [The self as method: conversations with Biao Xiang]. Shanghai: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House.

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Monograph

Xiang, Biao. 2007. Global "body shopping": an Indian labor system in the information technology industry. In-Formation. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press.

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Monograph

Xiang, Biao, Weldon, Jim (tran.). 2005. Transcending boundaries: Zhejiangcun; the story of a migrant village in Beijing. China Studies 5. Leiden; Boston: Brill.

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Blog Post (9)

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Blog Post

Xing, Chaoguo and Biao Xiang. 2022. Migrant care labour agencies as actors of social control: case studies from China. MoLab Inventory of Mobilities and Socioeconomic Changes. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.48509/MoLab.5418.

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Blog Post

Xiang, Biao. 2022. The securitization of mobility. MoLab Inventory of Mobilities and Socioeconomic Change. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.48509/MoLab.1767.

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Xiang, Biao. 2022. Logistical power. MoLab Inventory of Mobilities and Socioeconomic Changes. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.48509/MoLab.6333.

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Xiang, Biao. 2021. Educational mobility and 'human nature': changes in student migration from China since 2000. MoLab Inventory of Mobilities and Socioeconomic Changes. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.48509/molab.1101.

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Xiang, Biao. 2021. Point-to-point labour transport: the securitization of mobility after lockdown. MoLab Inventory of Mobilities and Socioeconomic Changes. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.48509/molab.3265.

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Xiang, Biao. 2021. Grid reaction: comparing mobility restrictions during COVID-19 and SARS. MoLab Inventory of Mobilities and Socioeconomic Changes. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.48509/MoLab.5217.

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Xiang, Biao. 2021. Shock mobility: convulsions in human migration are having large impacts. MoLab Inventory of Mobilities and Socioeconomic Changes. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.48509/molab.3577.

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Xiang, Biao. 2021. The emerging 'mobility business'. MoLab Inventory of Mobilities and Socioeconomic Changes. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.48509/molab.2514.

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Xiang, Biao. 2020. The emerging business of mobility. REALEURASIA Blog. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000D-0AF5-4.

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