MA Xinrong

Associate Professor

Department of Political Science

Email: maxr5@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Research Areas

Comparative Politics, Political Anthropology, Migration, Ethnicity, State-Society Relationship, Mobility and Globalization  

Publications

Xinrong Ma and Chen Hongyu. 2025. "Unpacking Migration Infrastructure and (Im)mobility of Myanmar Migrant Workers in China". China Perspective. (Acceptance)

Xinrong Ma. 2025. "Foreign Domestic Workers in China: the case of Filipino migrant Workers". in Handbook on Migration to China. Edited by Heidi Ostbo Haugen and Bingyu Wang. Edward Elgar Publishing. 179-187.

Xinrong Ma. 2025. "Invisible but Deportable Non-Citizens: Constitutive Citizenship and Acts of Filipino Irregular Migrants in China". Citizenship Studies. Sep 1-18. DOI: 10.1080/13621025.2025.2558422.

Quan Gao, Peter Hopkins and Xinrong Ma. 2025. "Towards Postsecular Feminism: Intersectionality and the Religious Subjectivities of Women Migrant Workers in China". Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 115(1): 167-183. 

Xinrong Ma and Yihui Su. 2023. "Ethnicity-Based Labor Dynamics in Contemporary China: Case of Ethnic Yi Workers in the Pearl River Delta". The China Review. 22(2): 227-252. 

Xinrong Ma and Heidi Haugen.2022."How Ethnicity Matters in Labor Studies". Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies DOI:10.1080/1369183X.2022.2078800.

马欣荣，2022. “凉山彝族女性打工者的性别协商、庇护与伦理处境”，《湖北民族大学学报》，第4期 

Xinrong Ma. 2021. "The Dynamics of Ethnic Minorities’ Citizenship in China". in Routledge Handbook of Chinese Citizenship, edited by Zhonghua Guo. UK, London: Routledge. 440-451. 

Xinrong Ma. 2021. "Mobility and Immobility:  the Fluctuation of Citizenship of Resettled Vietnamese Refugees in China. Journal of Chinese Governance DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2021.1922199 

Xinrong Ma. 2019. "Ethnic Minority Empowerment and Marginalization: Yi Labor Migrants Outside China’s Autonomous Regions".  China Information. Vol.33(2) 46-164.

PHD Thesis: 

Xinrong Ma. Entrapment by Consent: The Co-Ethnic Brokerage of Ethnic Yi labor Migration In China.  Leiden University.