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Sociology Graduate Students

Xiaochen Liang
  • Title
    • Phd Student
  • Division Social Sciences Division
  • Department
    • Sociology Department
  • Email
  • Office Location
    • Rachel Carson College Academic Building, 235
  • Mail Stop Rachel Carson College Faculty Services
  • Mailing Address
    • 1156 High St.
    • Santa Cruz California 95064

Research Interests

Labor and work, International migration, Precarious legal status, Precarious work, Citizenship, Labor migration, High-skilled migrant workers, Ethnicity, Gender, Human Trafficking

Selected Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Liang, X. (2024). Immigration regulations as frame of reference: trade-off between precarious employment and precarious legal status among US student-migrant-workers. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1-21.

Liang, X. (2023). Marriage Trafficking: Demand, Exploitation, and Conducive Contexts—A Study in China–Vietnam Border Areas. Violence against women, 29(3-4), 548-579. 

Fukurai, H., Gabriel, R., & Liang, X. (2023). The COVID-19 crisis, herd immunity, and “vaccine apartheid” in the age of anthropocene. Asian Journal of Law and Society, 10(1), 1-10. 

Book Reviews

Liang, X. (2022). What's wrong with work? Lynne Pettinger Bristol, England: Policy Press. (2019). 230pp. AUS $33.68. Paperback.

Liang, X. (2021). China’s criminal justice institutions-Construction of Guilt: An Empirical Account of Routine Chinese Injustice By Yu MOU Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2020. 280 pp. Hardcover, $79.00. Asian Journal of Law and Society, 8(3), 582-584

Liang, X. (2020). Orphan Relief in China-Anna High, Non-Governmental Orphan Relief in China: Law, Policy, and Practice (New York: Routledge, 2019) pp 174. Hardcover: $53.99. Asian Journal of Law and Society, 7(3), 583-585.