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Contact
Email: beatrice.zani@cnrs.fr
Thèmes de recherche
- Sociologie économique
- Mobilités et migrations
- Travail migrant
- Genre et migration par mariage
- Globalisation
- Industries de la pêche et du transport international
Curriculum
Expériences professionnelles
Depuis septembre 2023: Tenured Researcher, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)
2021-2023: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of East-Asian Studies, McGill University (Montreal, CA)
2020-2021: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, the European Research Centre of Contemporary Taiwan, Department of Social Sciences, University of Tübingen (Germany)
Recent Visiting Fellowhsips
2026-2027: Visiting scholar, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica
2026: Visiting faculty, Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University
2025: Visting Scholar, Bandan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional, Jakarta
Financements et projets en cours
2026-2028: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR). Projet : Migrations and Forced Labor in the Maritime Economies of Globalized Asia (FORSEA)
2025-2026: Financement Franco Taiwanese PHC ORCHID (Campus France/ Taiwan Science and Technology Council). Projet: « Global Mobility in the Digital Age: Crossed perspectives on France and Taiwan », with Po-Yi Hung, National Taiwan University/ Global Asia Research Center (GARC)
2024-2027: Financement Chiang Ching Kuo (CCK) Foundation, avec I. Cockel, University of Portsmouth. Projet: « Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Migrant Fishers, Seafarers and Farmhands and the Impact of Digitality on their Work, Life and Activism ».
Publications
Monograph
- Zani, Beatrice. 2022. Women Migrants in Southern China and in Taiwan. Mobilities, digital economies and emotions. Abington and New York: Routledge
Book
- Roulleau-Berger, Laurence, Giraudo, Grégory, Zani, Beatrice et Vérena Richardier. 2024. La ville indécente
- Migration, subalternité et hospitalité. Toulouse: PUM
Edited Volume
- Zani, Beatrice and Isabelle Cockel (Eds). 2024. Living across Connectivity. Intimacy, Entrepreneurship, and Activism of East Asian Migrants Online and Offline. London and New York: Anthem Press
Refereed Journal Articles
- 2025. Bumps, Hits and Hurdles: Multidirectional Pathways of Migration and Citizenship across the Taiwan Strait, Ethnic and Racial Studies. DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2024.2441911
- 2024. Cockel, I., Zani, B., & Parhusip, J. S. ‘Fettered mobility’ and translocality: Irregular farm workers and the informal labour market in rural Taiwan. Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/tjtm_00060_1
- 2023. Cockel, I and B. Zani. ‘There will be no law, or people to protect us’ Irregular Southeast Asian seasonal workers in Taiwan before and during the pandemic. Journal of Agrarian Change, 23(3). 634-644. DOI: 10.1111/joac.12550
- 2023. Zani, Beatrice and Cockel, Isabelle. Introduction. Migrants and their smartphones. Interlaced mobilities online and offline. Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies 13 (2022/1): 3-7.
- 2023. Zani, Beatrice and Cockel, Isabelle. How Far Can Chicken Feet Travel? The transgression of contested sovereign borders and Chinese women’s e-entrepreneurship between Taiwan and China. Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies 13 (2022/1): 66-85.
- 2023. Cockel, Isabelle, Zani, Beatrice and Parhusip, Johnatan. There will be no law, or people to protect us’ Irregular Southeast Asian seasonal workers in Taiwan before and during the pandemic. Journal of Agrarian Change, 23(3). 634-644. DOI: 10.1111/joac.12550
- 2022. Liaisons troubles en maisons closes. Faire et défaire des complicités dans un salon de massages de Taipei (Risky relationships in a whorehouse. Doing and undoing complicity within a massage centre in Taipei]. Terrain 77 : 301–317
- 2022. Transnational migrant cyberfamilies’ e-entrepreneurship. Case study of Chinese women in Montreal. Hommes et migrations 1337 (2): 35–43. DOI: 10.4000/hommesmigrations.13920
- 2022. Orange bras, gendered petit capitalism and e-entrepreneurs. On the backroads of globalisation between China and Taiwan. Globalizations. DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2022.2082098
- 2021. Digital Entrepreneurship. E-commerce among Chinese Marriage-Migrant Women in Taiwan. Journal of Chinese Overseas 17(2): 265–292. DOI: 10.1163/17932548-12341445.
- 2021. Shall WeChat? Switching between online and offline ethnography. Bulletin of Methodological Sociology152(1): 52–75. DOI: 10.1177/07591063211040229
- 2021. Pattes de poulet, colis cachés et entrepreneuses connectées. Migration et entrepreneuriat digital entre Chine et Taiwan. Sociologie du travail 63(3). DOI: 10.4000/sdt.39634
- 2021. Schubert, Gunter, Shelly Rigger, Beatrice Zani, Shirley Lin, and Jay Rou Chen. Delimiting ‘Cross-Strait Studies’: Kua’an (跨岸) vs. Liang’an (兩岸). International Journal of Taiwan Studies 4 (1): 163–191. DOI: 10.1163/24688800-20201193
- 2021. Zani, Beatrice and Momesso, Lara. Can the subaltern feel? An ethnography of migration, subalternity and emotion. Emotion, Space and Society 39. DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2021.100786
- 2020. Trado Ergo Sum. Migranti cinesi, piattaforme digitali ed economie multipolari sulle strade secondarie della globalizzazione. Quaderni di sociologia 82 (3): 43–64. DOI: 10.4000/qds.3676
- 2020. WeChat, We Sell, We Feel. Chinese Migrant Women’s Emotional Petit Capitalism. International Journal of Cultural Studies 23(5): 803–820. DOI: 10.1177/1367877920923360
- 2020. In-between. Re-migration, Orbital Mobilities and Emotional Circulations of Chinese Women from Taiwan back to China. Asian Pacific Viewpoint 61(3): 494–508. DOI: 10.1111/apv.12254
- 2018. Gendered Transnational Ties and Multipolar Economies: Chinese Migrant Women WeChat Commerce in Taiwan. International Migration 57 (4): 232–246. DOI: 10.1111/imig.12526
