Dr. MA Xinrong

Associate Professor

Department of Political Science

Email: maxr5@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Education and Academic Visiting 

PHD, Leiden University, Area Studies (2018)

Visting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute (2025-2026)   

Research Areas

Political Anthropology, Migration, Ethnicity, State-Society Relationship, Globalization  

Publications

Xinrong Ma and Christine Lee. 2025. "Rethinking Global China through Migrants in the Margins: Precarity, Agency, and Multi-directional Mobility". China Perspective. 143: 3-7. (Guest editor of Special Issue)

Xinrong Ma and Hongyu Chen. 2025. "Unpacking Migration Infrastructure and (Im)mobility of Myanmar Migrant Workers in China". China Perspective. 143: 19-28.

Xinrong Ma. 2025. "Foreign Domestic Workers in China: the case of Filipino migrant Workers". in Handbook on Migration to China. Edited by Heidi Ostbo Haugen and Bingyu Wang. Edward Elgar Publishing. 179-187.

Xinrong Ma. 2025. "Invisible but Deportable Non-Citizens: Constitutive Citizenship and Acts of Filipino Irregular Migrants in China". Citizenship Studies. 29(5):407-424.

Quan Gao, Peter Hopkins and Xinrong Ma*. 2025. "Towards Postsecular Feminism: Intersectionality and the Religious Subjectivities of Women Migrant Workers in China". Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 115(1): 167-183. 

Xinrong Ma and Yihui Su. 2023. "Ethnicity-Based Labor Dynamics in Contemporary China: Case of Ethnic Yi Workers in the Pearl River Delta". The China Review. 22(2): 227-252. 

Xinrong Ma and Heidi Haugen.2022."How Ethnicity Matters in Labor Studies". Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 48(19): 4712-4729.

马欣荣，2022. “凉山彝族女性打工者的性别协商、庇护与伦理处境”，《湖北民族大学学报》，第4期，12-21.

Xinrong Ma. 2021. "The Dynamics of Ethnic Minorities’ Citizenship in China". in Routledge Handbook of Chinese Citizenship, edited by Zhonghua Guo. UK, London: Routledge. 440-451. 

Xinrong Ma. 2021. "Mobility and Immobility:  the Fluctuation of Citizenship of Resettled Vietnamese Refugees in China". Journal of Chinese Governance. 7(3): 489-509.

Xinrong Ma. 2019. "Ethnic Minority Empowerment and Marginalization: Yi Labor Migrants Outside China’s Autonomous Regions".  China Information. 33(2):146-164.

Manuscript (PhD thesis)：

Xinrong Ma. Entrapment by Consent: The Co-Ethnic Brokerage of Ethnic Yi labor Migration In China.  Leiden University.