About Us Zhenwei Wang

Zhenwei Wang studied Sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Bielefeld University (M.A.). In January 2025, she defended her PhD dissertation “The Gender and Class Dynamics of Families on the Move: An Ethnography of Translocal Kinning and Caregiving in Contemporary China” at the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology. For this research, she employed a hybrid online-offline and multi-sited ethnographic approach, utilizing a mix of methods including participant observation, in-depth interviews, life-history interviews, and document analysis. In April 2025, Zhenwei Wang joined the team of Jun.-Prof. Dr. Yaatsil Guevara González as a postdoctoral researcher with funding by the Margarete von Wrangell Program of the Ministery of Science, Research and Arts Baden-Württemberg (MWK).

Zhenwei Wang’s research interests center on internal and cross-border Chinese migration, kinship, family practices, digitalization, gender, and class. Combining ethnography with discourse analysis, she is currently exploring the digital pathways of Chinese migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border and examines how they navigate transnational mobility through social media platforms such as TikTok, YouTube, and Xiaohongshu.