SSRC Staff

Jennifer Holdaway

Program Director,
China Environment and Health Initiative

Bio

Jennifer Holdaway is a Program Director whose work spans several fields related to development, including migration, environment and health. She has a B.A. in Chinese Studies from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She has taught in the political science departments at Brooklyn College and at Barnard College . Holdaway is also the Council’s China Representative and is currently based in Beijing. She has written and edited a number of publications related to migration and gender, migration and education, migration and development, and environment and health. She has just completed editing a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary China on environment and health in China which will be published in early 2010. In September 2009 she will begin a new research project on the impact of skilled return migrants on policy and institution-building in the health and higher education sectors in China and India, in collaboration with Peggy Levitt.

Programs and Projects

CEHI Web-based Resources
(Program Director)
Children of Immigrants in Schools
(Program Director)
China Environment and Health Initiative
(Program Director)
Education and Migration in Comparative Perspective
(Program Director)
Education and Migration in the United States
Forum on Health, Environment and Development
(Program Director)
Migration and Development
(Associate Program Director)
Migration and Development in China: 30 Years of Experience
(Program Director)
Migration and Development Within and Across Borders: Research and Policy Perspectives on Internal and International Migration
(Associate Program Director)
Migration and Education
(Program Director)
Migration Program
(Associate Program Director)

Publications

Book
Huanjing yu Jiankang: kuaxueke shijiao [Environment and Health: Cross-disciplinary perspectives], eds. Jennifer Holdaway, Wuyi Wang, Jingzhong Ye and Shiqiu Zhang (May 2010).
Special Issue(s)
Environment and Health in China: An Emerging Research Field, ed. Jennifer Holdaway (2010), http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g918909121.
Educating Immigrant Youth: Pathways to Mobility and Citizenship in International Perspective, eds. Jennifer Holdaway, Maurice Crul and Catrin Roberts (2009), http://www.tcrecord.org/Issue.asp?volyear=2009&number=6&volume=111.

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