Melanie Ng
First Name:
Melanie
Last Name:
Ng
Email :
melanie.ng@mail.utoronto.ca
Title:
PhD Program
Biography :
Melanie Ng is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Toronto studying the transpacific history of Chinese paper family migrations to and through Canada and North America. Weaving together archival documents and oral histories, her dissertation analyzes clandestine Chinese migrants’ contestation and subversion of legal/illegal categories and their impact on Chinese community identity, Chinese racialization, and trans-imperial legal formation.
Education:
MA, Queen's University
B.Ed, Queen's University
BA (Hons), Queen's University
People Type:
Research Area:
Areas of Interest:
Chinese Canadian studies, Asian Canadian studies; Asian American studies; race, immigration, and ethnicity in Canada and the U.S., Chinese migrations and diasporas, transpacific histories
Program:
Cohort:
Dissertation Supervisors:
Takashi Fujitani
Lisa Mar
