Rate My Professor Sylvia Ang

Dr Sylvia Ang is a Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University. She earned her PhD from the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, supported by Melbourne International Research and Fee Remission Scholarships, along with a Master’s degree in Development Studies from the University of Melbourne and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the National University of Singapore. Prior to her current appointment, she served as Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University and as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore from 2018 to 2020.

Dr Ang’s research focuses on the production and experiences of inequalities among migrants in and from Asia, with particular attention to ethnic relations, class, gender, mobilities, and decolonisation. Her qualitative research employs methods including in-depth interviews, ethnography, and digital ethnography, contributing to debates on how ethnicity, class, gender, and nationality shape Asian migrants’ lives. Her monograph Contesting Chineseness: Nationality, Class, Gender and New Chinese Migrants (Amsterdam University Press) received the Raewyn Connell Prize for the best first book in 2024. Key publications include "Ethnic proximity, mobility and (non)-belonging: middle-class Singaporean migrants in China" (Mobilities, 2025), "Pandemic im/mobility as opportunity: middle-class Asian migrant women in Australia" (Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 2025), "Chinese voluntary associations in the diaspora: ethnicity, gender and the (re)making of ancestral communities" (Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2024), the co-edited volume Diasporic Chinese Voluntary Associations in Transition: Ethnicity, Gender and Community (Re)making in the Asia Pacific (Routledge, 2025), and the commissioned report "Evaluation of the Job Ready Program" (Australian Government, 2024). She holds editorial positions as Associate Editor of the Journal of Intercultural Studies since 2023 and Guest Editor for Ethnic and Racial Studies in 2022 and 2024.