Mette Thunø is associate professor of China Studies and former dean of the Faculty of Arts at Aarhus University, Denmark. Specializing in Chinese migration, she has published widely in international journals, co-authored Transnational Chinese: Fujianese Migrants in Europe (Stanford University Press 2004), and edited Beyond Chinatown: New Chinese Migration and the Global Expansion of China (NIAS Press 2007). She co-founded the China-Europe Research Platform on Chinese Migration to Europe and Beyond and is Vice-President of the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas. She is the Brill Handbook Series Editor of “Chinese Migrations.”

Simeng Wang is a permanent researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS, CERMES3), fellow of the French Collaborative Institute on Migration, and coordinates the multidisciplinary research network Migration from East and Southeast Asia in France. She publishes extensively on Chinese and Asian migrations, including: Chinese Migrants in Paris. The Narratives of Illusion and Suffering (Brill 2021); Chinese Immigrants in Europe: Image, Identity and Social Participation (Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2020); Chinese in France amid the COVID-19 Pandemic. Daily Lives, Racial Struggles and Transnational Citizenship of Migrants and Descendants (Brill 2023).

Emilie Tran-Sautedé is an assistant professor in Politics and Public Administration at the Hong Kong Metropolitan University, and an associate researcher at the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (Hong Kong) and the Montreal Centre for International Studies. Her research investigates global China (public diplomacy; overseas Chinese), and Hong Kong. She has published in journals including Mediterranean Politics, Journal of Contemporary China, China Perspectives, and International Migration, as well as book chapters, and co-edited volumes including China in the Mediterranean: An Arena of Strategic Competition? (Routledge 2024).

Yu-chin Tseng is junior professor in Chinese Studies at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and she serves as the co-director of the European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT). She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Essex, United Kingdom. Her research centres on the relationship between mobility, intimacy, and the state across Asia and Europe. She has published widely on the topics of marriage and migration, gender and family, and China’s public diplomacy in, e.g., Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of Risk and Financial Management, and Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives.