I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology at The King’s University in Edmonton. My research sits at the intersection of international migration and political sociology, focusing on how transnational collective action is constituted across borders.
 

In my work, I develop the multipolarity approach to move beyond pre-existing models of transnationalism. Pre-existing frameworks often assume collective action originates in one discrete place and simply travels to another through spatial directional trajectories, such as upward scaling, downward diffusion. The multipolarity framework conceptualizes migrants not as pre-existing, static groups, but as actors constituted as political subjects through their simultaneous positioning within overlapping and competing political divides. By examining how these subjects coordinate around shared problematizations rather than just physical locations, I explain how transnational movements navigate the gravity of their multi-embedded contexts.
 

My forthcoming book, Multipolar Politics: Challenges of Global Alliance-Building Against Authoritarianism, applies this theory to a multi-sited ethnography of the Hong Kong diaspora (2019–2025). Based on 165 interviews and six years of fieldwork across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Taiwan, the project examines how exiles and migrants attempt to build global alliances while confronting the ideological and organizational tensions inherent in geopolitical struggle.
 

Alongside my work on diaspora politics, my research investigates how migrant incorporation into hostland racial and political structures reshapes collective identities and attitudes. My work has received awards from the American Sociological Association, the Pacific Sociological Association, and Alpha Kappa Delta International Sociological Honor Society, and has been supported by a doctoral fellowship from Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. I received my PhD in Sociology from the University of Southern California in 2025.