Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences,
School of Area Studies, History, Politics & LiteratureCentre for European & International Studies Research
Email: Isabelle.Cheng@port.ac.uk
Dr Cockel joined the University of Portsmouth in 2012 after acquiring her PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of the University of London. Her research focused on marriage migration in East Asia with reference to the migration of Chinese and Southeast Asian women to Taiwan. On this topic, her publications focused on sovereignty, nation-building, identity, multiculturalism, citizenship, motherhood and political participation.From marriage migration, she moved onto labour migration in East Asia particularly the corridors between Vietnam and Indonesia and Taiwan. On this topic, her publications focused on migrant workers’ labour rights, grassroots activism and irregular farm workers.Taking her interest in gender into the study of the Cold War, she also conducted research on women propaganda broadcasters. She argued that transmitting their voices via radio and loudspeakers constructed an ideological soundscape transgressing state borders. She is currently the Secretary-General of the European Association of Taiwan Studies and Research Associate of the SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies.