FASS Staff Profile

DR BRENDA S.A. YEOH
PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT of GEOGRAPHY

Appointment:
PROFESSOR
Office:
AS2/04-16
Email:
geoysa@nus.edu.sg
Tel:
65 6516 5281
Fax:
65 6777 3091
Homepage:
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/geoysa/
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Brief Introduction

Dr Brenda S.A. Yeoh read geography at Cambridge and went on to complete her doctorate at Oxford University. She also holds a Diploma-in-Education from the Institute of Education, Singapore. She leads the research cluster on Asian Migration at the Asia Research Institute, NUS. Her research interests include the politics of space in colonial and postcolonial cities, and she also has considerable experience working on a wide range of migration research in Asia, including key themes such as cosmopolitanism and highly skilled talent migration; gender, social reproduction and care migration; migration, national identity and citizenship issues;  globalising universities and international student mobilities; and cultural politics, family dynamics and international marriage migrants.


Teaching Areas

  • Historical Landscapes and Heritage
  • Gender, Space and Place
  • Changing Landscapes of Singapore
  • Development of Geographic Thought

Current Research

On-going and Past Research Projects include:

  • Child Health and Migrant Parents in South-East Asia (CHAMPSEA): Wave II
  • Changing Ethnicities: Peranakans and Eurasians across Generations
  • The Global City of Encounters: Migration, Precarity and Diversity in Asian Urbanism
  • Casino Mobilities: Labour Migration, Global Consumption and Regulation in Singapore
  • Migrating out of Poverty Research Programme Consortium
  • State Boundaries, Cultural Politics and Gender Negotiations in Commercially Arranged International Marriages in Singapore and Malaysia
  • CHAMPSEA (Transnational Migration in SE Asia and the Health of Children Left Behind)
  • Transnational Care Workers, State Policies and Gender Dynamics in Ageing Societies: A Comparative Study of Singapore and Japan
  • Gender, Households and Identity in British and Singaporean Skilled Migration to China

 


Research Interests

  • the politics of space in colonial and postcolonial cities 
  • landscapes of heritage
  • global cities, transnationalism and diaspora
  • gender and migration
  • health geographies 

Publications

BOOKS (FROM 2000)

  • Muzaini, H. and B.S.A. Yeoh, Contested Memoryscapes: The Politics of Second World War Commemoration in Singapore, Abingdon: Ashgate, 2016.
  • Hoang, L.A. and B.S.A. Yeoh (eds.), Transnational Labour Migration, Remittances and the Changing Family in Asia, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
  • Xiang, B., B.S.A. Yeoh and M. Toyota (eds.), Return: Nationalizing Transnational Mobility in Asia, Durham: Duke University Press, 2013.
  • Savage, V.R. and B.S.A. Yeoh, Singapore Street Names: A Study of Toponymics, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Editions, 2013.
  • Lai, A.E., F.L. Collins and B.S.A. Yeoh (eds.), Migration and Diversity in Asian Contexts, Singapore: ISEAS, 2012.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A. and S. Huang (eds.), The Cultural Politics of Talent Migration in East Asia, Routledge: Milton Park, 2012.
  • Heikkilä, E.K. and B.S.A. Yeoh (eds.), International Marriages in the Time of Globalization, New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2011.
  • Devasahayam, T.W. and B.S.A. Yeoh (eds.), Working and Mothering in Asia: Images, Ideologies and Identities, Singapore: Singapore University Press and Denmark: NIAS Press, 2007.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A. and T. Wong (eds.), Over Singapore 50 Years Ago: An Aerial View in the 1950s, Singapore: Editions Didier Millet and National Archives of Singapore, 2007.
  • Sleigh, A.C., H.L. Chee, B.S.A. Yeoh, K.H. Phua and R. Safman (eds.), Population Dynamics and Infectious Diseases in Asia, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2006.
  • Jatrana, S., M. Toyota and B.S.A. Yeoh (eds.), Migration and Health in Asia, London: Routledge, 2005 [republished as paperback, 2006].
  • Lee, Y.S. and B.S.A. Yeoh (eds.), Globalisation and the Politics of Forgetting, London: Routledge, 2005.
  • Lorente, B.P., N. Piper, Shen H.H. and B.S.A. Yeoh, Asian Migrations: Sojourning, Displacement, Homecoming and Other Travels, Singapore: Asia Research Institute, 2005.
  • Huang, S., B.S.A. Yeoh and N. Abdul Rahman (eds.), Asian Women as Transnational Domestic Workers in Asia, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish, 2005.
  • Teo, P.C.C., B.S.A. Yeoh, G.L Ooi and K.P.Y. Lai, Changing Landscapes of Singapore, Singapore: McGraw-Hill, 2004.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A. and K. Willis (eds.), State/Nation/Transnation: Perspectives on Transnationalism in the Asia-Pacific, London and New York: Routledge, 2004.
  • Charney, M.W., B.S.A. Yeoh and C.K. Tong (eds.), Chinese Migrants Abroad: Cultural, Educational, and Social Dimensions of the Chinese Diaspora, Singapore: World Scientific and Singapore University Press, 2003.
  • Charney, M.W., B.S.A. Yeoh, and C.K. Tong (eds.), Asian Migrants and Education, Boston, Dordrecht and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.
  • Goh, R.B.H. and B.S.A. Yeoh (eds.), Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as Text: Urban Landscapes, Cultural Documents and Interpretative Experiences, Singapore: World Scientific, 2003.
  • Kong, L. and B.S.A. Yeoh, The Politics of Landscape in Singapore: Constructions of “Nation”, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2003.
  • Pflegerl, J., S.E. Khoo, B.S.A. Yeoh and V. Koh (eds.), Researching Migration and the Family, Singapore: Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis, 2003.
  • Savage, V.R. and B.S.A. Yeoh, Toponymics: A Study of Singapore Street Names, Singapore: Eastern Universities Press by Marshall Cavendish International, 2nd edition, 2004 (1st edition, 2003).
  • Yeoh, B.S.A., Contesting Space in Colonial Singapore: Power Relations in the Urban Built Environment, Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2003 (first edition published in hardback by Oxford University Press, 1996).
  • Yeoh, B.S.A., M.W. Charney and C.K. Tong (eds.), Approaching Transnationalisms: Studies on Transnational Societies, Multicultural Contacts, and Imaginings of Home, Boston, Dordrecht and London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.
  • Tan, E.S., B.S.A. Yeoh and J. Wang (eds.), Tourism Management and Policy: Perspectives from Singapore, Singapore: World Scientific, 2002.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A., P. Teo and S. Huang (eds.), Gender Politics in the Asia-Pacific Region, London: Routledge, 2002.
  • Willis, K. and B.S.A. Yeoh (eds.), Gender and Migration. The International Library of Studies on Migration Series, edited by R. Cohen, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2000.

INTERNATIONALLY REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES (FROM 2000)

  • Sidhu, R., F. Collins, N. Lewis and B.S.A. Yeoh, Governmental assemblages of internationalising universities: Mediating circulation and containment in East Asia. Environment and Planning A, (2016, online first), doi: 10.1177/0308518X16644255.
  • Lin, W. and B.S.A. Yeoh, Moving in relations to Asia: The politics and practices of mobility. Environment and Planning A, (2016, online first), doi: 10.1177/0308518X16633004.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A., M. Platt, C.Y. Khoo, T. Lam and G. Baey, Indonesian domestic workers and the (un)making of transnational livelihoods and provisional futures. Social and Cultural Geography, (2016, online first), doi:10.1080/14649365.2016.1185800.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A., Migration and gender politics in Southeast Asia. Migration. Mobility, & Displacement, 2, no. 1 (2016): 74-88. 
  • Yeoh, B.S.A. and T. Lam, Immigration and its (Dis)Contents: The challenges of highly skilled migration in globalising Singapore. American Behavioral Scientist, 60, no. 5-6 (2016): 637-658. 
  • Lu, M.C.W., J. Zhang, H.L. Chee and B.S.A. Yeoh, Multiple mobilities and entrepreneurial modalities of Chinese marriage migrants in Malaysia. Current Sociology, 64, no. 3 (2016): 411-429.
  • Zhang, J. and B.S.A. Yeoh, Harnessing exception: Mobilities, credibility, and the casino. Environment and Planning A, (2015, online first), doi: 10.1177/0308518X15609175.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A., Affective practices in the European city of encounters: Reflections from a distance. Cities, 19, no. 4 (2015): 545-551.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A. and S. Huang, Cosmopolitan beginnings? Transnational healthcare workers and the politics of carework in Singapore. The Geographical Journal, 181, no. 3 (2015): 249-258.
  • Hickey, M., E.L.-E. Ho and B.S.A. Yeoh, Introduction to the special section on establishing state-led ‘diaspora strategies’ in Asia: Migration-as-development reinvented? Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 36, no. 2 (2015): 139–146.
  • Cheng, Y.E., B.S.A. Yeoh and J. Zhang, Still ‘breadwinners’ and ‘providers’: Singaporean husbands, money, and masculinity in transnational marriages. Gender, Place and Culture, 22, no. 6 (2015): 867-883.
  • Zhang, J, M.C.W. Lu and B.S.A. Yeoh, Cross-border marriage, trans-governmental friction, and waiting. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 33, no. 2, (2015): 229-246.
  • Alipio, C., Lu, M.C.W. and B.S.A. Yeoh, Editorial: Asian children and transnational migration. Children’s Geographies, 13, no. 3 (2015): 255-262.
  • Hoang, L.A., T. Lam, B.S.A. Yeoh and E. Graham, Transnational migration, changing care arrangements and left-behind children’s responses in South-east Asia. Children’s Geographies, 13, no. 3 (2015): 263-277.
  • Graham, E., L. Jordan and B.S.A. Yeoh, Parental migration and the mental health of those who stay behind to care for children in South-East Asia. Social Science & Medicine, 132 (2015): 225-235.
  • Hoang, L.A. and B.S.A. Yeoh, Children’s agency and its contradictions in the context of transnational labour migration from Vietnam. Global Networks, 15, no. 2 (2015): 180-197.
  • Ho, E.L., M. Boyle, and B.S.A. Yeoh, Recasting diaspora strategies through feminist care ethics. Geoforum, 59 (2015): 206-214.
  • Ho, E.L., M. Hickey and B.S.A. Yeoh, Special issue introduction: New research directions and critical perspectives on diaspora strategies. Geoforum, 59 (2015): 153-158.
  • Sidhu, R., B.S.A. Yeoh and S. Chang, A situated analysis of global knowledge networks: Capital accumulation strategies of transnationally mobile scientists in Singapore. Higher Education, 69, no. 1 (2015): 79-101.
  • Muzaini, H. and B.S.A. Yeoh, An exploration of memory-making in the digital era: Remembering the FEPOW story online. Tijdschrift Voor Economische En Sociale Geografie, 106, no. 1 (2015): 53-64.
  • Hoang, L.A. and B.S.A. Yeoh, ‘I’d do it for love or for money’: Vietnamese women in Taiwan and the social construction of female migrant sexuality. Gender, Place and Culture, 22, no. 5 (2015): 591-607.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A., M. Foong and K.C. Ho, International students and the politics of language among ‘globalising universities’ in Asia. Knowledge Cultures, 2, no. 4 (2014): 64-89.
  • Collins, F.L., R. Sidhu, N. Lewis and B.S.A. Yeoh, Mobility and desire: international students and Asian regionalism in aspirational Singapore. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 35, no. 5 (2014): 661-676.
  • Chee, H.L., C.W. Lu and B.S.A. Yeoh, Ethnicity, citizenship and reproduction: Taiwanese wives making citizenship claims in Malaysia. Citizenship Studies, 18, no. 8 (2014): 823-838.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A. and K. Ramdas, Gender, migration, mobility and transnationalism. Gender, Place and Culture, 21, no. 10 (2014): 1197-1213.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A., Asia(ns) on the move: Globalisation, migration and development. TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, 2, no. 2 (2014): 157-162.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A. and S. Huang, Singapore’s changing demography, the eldercare predicament and transnational ‘care’ migration. TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, 2, no. 2 (2014): 247-269.
  • Bailey, A.J. and B.S.A. Yeoh, Migration, society and globalisation: Introduction to Virtual Issue. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 39, no. 3 (2014): 470-475.
  • Brickell, K. and B.S.A. Yeoh, Geographies of domestic life: ‘Householding’ in transition in East and Southeast Asia. Geoforum, 51 (2014): 259-261.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A., H.L. Chee and T.K.D. Vu, Global householding and the negotiation of intimate labour in commercially-matched international marriages between Vietnamese women and Singaporean men. Geoforum, 51 (2014): 284-293.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A. and M.A. Soco, The cosmopolis and the migrant domestic worker. Cultural Geographies, 21, no. 2 (2014): 171-187.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A., H.L. Chee and G.H.Y. Baey, The place of Vietnamese marriage migrants in Singapore: Social reproduction, social “problems” and social protection. Third World Quarterly, 34, no. 10 (2013): 1927-1941.
  • Brickell, K. and B.S.A. Yeoh, Geographies of Domestic Life: ‘Householding’ in Transition in East and Southeast Asia. Geoforum (2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.10.007).
  • Yeoh, B.S.A., H.L. Chee and T.K.D. Vu, Global Householding and the Negotiation of Intimate Labour in Commercially-matched International Marriages between Vietnamese Women and Singaporean Men. Geoforum (2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.09.012).
  • Lam, T., M. Ee, L.A. Hoang and B.S.A. Yeoh, Securing a Better Living Environment for Left-behind Children: Implications and Challenges for Policies. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 22, no. 3 (2013): 421-445.
  • Graham, E. and B.S.A. Yeoh, Introduction: Child health and migrant parents in South-East Asia: Risk and resilience among primary school-aged children. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 22, no. 3 (2013): 297-314.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A., H.L. Chee, T.K.D. Vu and Y.E. Cheng, Between Two Families: The Social Meaning of Remittances for Vietnamese Marriage Migrants in Singapore. Global Networks, 13, no. 4 (2013): 441-458.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A., H.L. Chee and T.K.D. Vu, Commercially Arranged Marriage and the Negotiation of Citizenship Rights among Vietnamese Marriage Migrants in Multiracial Singapore. Asian Ethnicity, 14, no. 2 (2013): 139-156.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A. “Upwards” or “Sideways” Cosmopolitanism? Talent/Labour/Marriage Migrations in the Globalising City-State of Singapore. Migration Studies, 1, no. 1 (2013): 96-116.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A. and W. Lin, Chinese Migration to Singapore: Discourses and Discontents in a Globalizing Nation-State. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 22, no. 1 (2013): 31-54.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A. and L. Kong, Singapore’s Chinatown: Nation Building and Heritage Tourism in a Multiracial City. Localities, 2 (2012): 117-159.
  • Hoang, L.A., B.S.A. Yeoh and A.M. Wattie, Transnational labour migration and the politics of care in the Southeast Asian family. Geoforum, 43, no.4 (2012): 733-740.
  • Chee, H.L., B.S.A. Yeoh and R. Shuib, Circuitous Pathways: Marriage as a Route toward (Il)legality for Indonesian Migrant Workers in Malaysia. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 21, no.3 (2012): 317-344.
  • Hoang, L.A. and B.S.A. Yeoh, Sustaining families across transnational spaces: Vietnamese migrant parents and their left-behind children. Asian Studies Review, 36, no.3 (2012): 307-325.
  • Graham, E., L. Jordan, B.S.A. Yeoh, T. Lam, M. Asis and Sukamdi, Transnational families and the family nexus: Perspectives of Indonesian and Filipino children left behind by migrant parent(s).  Environment and Planning A, 44, no.4 (2012): 793-815.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A. and W. Lin, Rapid growth in Singapore’s immigrant population brings policy challenges. Migration Information Source, April 2012, http://www.migrationinformation.org/Profiles/display.cfm?ID=887.
  • Huang, S., B.S.A. Yeoh and M. Toyota, Caring for the Elderly: The Embodied Labour of Migrant Care Workers in Singapore. Global Networks, 12, no. 2 (2012): 195-215.
  • Lindquist, J., B. Xiang and B.S.A. Yeoh, Introduction: Opening the black box of migration: Brokers, the organisation of transnational mobility, and the changing political economy in Asia. Pacific Affairs, 85, no. 1 (2012): 7-18.
  • Chee, H.L., B.S.A. Yeoh and T.K.D. Vu, From client to matchmaker: Social capital in the making of commercial matchmaking agents in Malaysia. Pacific Affairs, 85, no. 1 (2012): 89-114.
  • Hoang, L.A. and B.S.A. Yeoh, Breadwinning wives and ‘left-behind’ husbands: men and masculinities in the Vietnamese transnational family. Gender & Society, 25, no. 6 (2011): 717-739.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A. and S. Huang, Introduction: Fluidity and Friction in Talent Migration. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 37, no. 5 (2011): 681-690.
  • Huang, S. and B.S.A. Yeoh, Navigating the Terrains of Transnational Education: Children of Chinese 'Study Mothers' in Singapore. Geoforum, 42, no. 3 (2011): 394-403.
  • Sidhu, R., K.C. Ho and B.S.A. Yeoh, Emerging Education Hubs: The Case of Singapore. Higher Education, 61, no. 1 (2011), 23-40.
  • Lin, W. and B.S.A. Yeoh, Questioning the ‘Field in Motion’: Emerging Concepts, Research Practices and the Geographical Imagination in Asian Migration Studies. Cultural Geographies, 18, no. 1 (2011), 125-131.
  • Gaetano, A. and B.S.A. Yeoh, Introduction to the Special Issue on Women and Migration in Globalizing Asia: Gendered Experiences, Agency and Activism. International Migration, 48, no. 6 (2010), 1-12.
  • Oswin, N. and B.S.A. Yeoh, Introduction to the Special issue: Mobile City Singapore. Mobilities, 5, no. 2 (2010), 167-175.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A. and S. Huang, Transnational domestic workers and the negotiation of mobility and work practices in Singapore’s home-spaces. Mobilities, 5, no. 2 (2010), 219-236.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A. and S. Huang, Foreign domestic workers and home-based care for elders in Singapore. Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 22, no. 1 (2010), 69-88.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A. and S. Huang, Sexualized politics of proximities among female transnational migrants in Singapore. Population, Space and Place, 16, no. 1 (2010), 37-49.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A. and A.E. Lai, ‘Talent’ migration in and out of Asia: challenges for policies and places. Asian Population Studies, 4, no. 3 (2008), 235-245.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A. and K. Annadhurai, Civil Society Action and the Creation of “Transformative” Spaces for Migrant Domestic Workers in Singapore. Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 37, no. 5 (2008), 548-569.
  • Huang, S., B.S.A. Yeoh and T. Lam, Asian Transnational Families in Transition: The Liminality of Simultaneity. International Migration, 46, no. 4 (2008), 3-13.
  • Huang, S. and B.S.A. Yeoh, Heterosexualities and the Global(ising) City in Asia: Introduction. Asian Studies Review, 32, no. 1 (2008): 1-6.
  • Rahman, M.M. and B.S.A. Yeoh, The Social Organization of Hundi: Channeling Migrant Remittances from East and Southeast Asia to Bangladesh. Asian Population Studies, 4, no. 1 (2008), 5-30.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A. and S. Huang, Placing ‘Gender’ in ‘Geography’ across Southeast Asia. BELGEO, 3 (2007), 383-398.
  • Muzaini, H. and B.S.A. Yeoh, Memory-making ‘from below’: Rescaling remembrance at the Kranji War Memorial and Cemetery, Singapore. Environment and Planning A, 39, no. 6 (2007), 1288-1305.
  • Huang, S. and B.S.A. Yeoh, Emotional Labour and Transnational Domestic Work: The Moving Geographies of “Maid Abuse” in Singapore. Mobilities, 2, no. 2 (2007), 195-217.
  • Huang, S., B.S.A. Yeoh and P. Straughan, Sustaining the Household in a Globalizing World: The Gendered Dynamics of Business Travel. Philippine Studies, 55, no. 2 (2007), 243-274.
  • Muzaini, H., P. Teo and B.S.A. Yeoh, Intimations of Postmodernity in Dark Tourism: The Fate of History at Fort Siloso, Singapore. Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 5, no. 1 (2007), 28-45.
  • Toyota, M., B.S.A. Yeoh and L. Nguyen, Editorial Introduction: Bringing the ‘Left Behind’ Back into View in Asia: a Framework for Understanding the Migration-Left Behind Nexus. Population, Space and Place, 13, no. 3 (2007), 157-161.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A., Singapore: Hungry for Foreign Workers at all Skill Levels. Migration Information Source, January 2007, http://www.migrationinformation.org/Profiles/display.cfm?ID=570.
  • Lam, T., B.S.A. Yeoh and S. Huang, ‘Global Householding’ in a City-State: Emerging Trends from Singapore. International Development Planning Review, 28, no. 4 (2006), 475-497.
  • Nguyen, L., B.S.A. Yeoh and M. Toyota, Migration and the Well-being of the ‘Left Behind’ in Asia: Key Themes and Trends. Asian Population Studies, 2, no. 1 (2006), 37-44.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A., Mobility and the City. Theory, Culture and Society, Special Issue on Problematizing Global Knowledge, 23, no. 2-3 (2006), 150-152.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A, Bifurcated Labour: The Unequal Incorporation of Transmigrants in Singapore. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (Journal of Economic and Social Geography), 97, no. 1 (2006), 26-37.
  • Teo, P., B.S.A. Yeoh and S. N. Ong, SARS in Singapore: Surveillance Strategies in a Globalising City. Health Policy, 72 (2005), 279-291.
  • Muzaini, H. and B.S.A. Yeoh, Contesting ‘Local’ Commemoration of the Second World War: the Case of the Changi Chapel and Museum in Singapore. Australian Geographer, 36, no. 1 (2005), 1-17.
  • Huang, S. and B.S.A.Yeoh, Transnational Families and their Children’s Education: China’s “Study Mothers” in Singapore. Global Networks (Special Issue on “Asian Transnational Families”), 5, no. 4 (2005), 379-400.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A., S. Huang and T. Lam, Transnationalizing the “Asian” family: Imaginaries, intimacies and strategic intents. Global Networks (Special Issue on “Asian Transnational Families”), 5, no. 4 (2005), 307-315.
  • Piper, N. and B.S.A. Yeoh, Introduction to special issue: Meeting the challenges of HIV/AIDs in Southeast and East Asia. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 46, no. 1 (2005), 1-5.
  • Muzaini, H. and B.S.A. Yeoh, Reading Representations of Women’s War Experiences in the Changi Chapel and Museum, Singapore. Geoforum, 36, no. 4 (2005), 465-476.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A., Observations on transnational urbanism: Possibilities, politics and costs of simultaneity, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 31, no. 2 (2005), 409-413.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A., The Global Cultural City? Spatial Imagineering and Politics in the (Multi-)Cultural Marketplaces of South-east Asia. Urban Studies, 42, no. 5/6 (2005), 945-958.
  • Muzaini, H. and B.S.A. Yeoh, War Landscapes as ‘Battlefields’ of Collective Memories: ‘Reading’ the Reflections at Bukit Chandu, Singapore. Cultural Geographies, 12, no. 3 (2005), 345-365.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A. and K. Willis, Singaporeans in China: Transnational women elites and the negotiation of gendered identities, Geoforum, 36, no. 2 (2005), 211-222.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A. and K. Willis, Singaporean and British Transmigrants in China and the Cultural Politics of ‘Contact Zones’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 31, no. 2 (2005), 269-285.
  • Muzaini, H. and B.S.A. Yeoh, Reading Representations of Women’s War Experiences in the Changi Chapel and Museum, Singapore, Geoforum, 36, no. 4 (2005), 465-476.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A., Cosmopolitanism and its exclusions in Singapore, Urban Studies, 41, no. 12 (2004), 2431-2445.
  • Lee, Y.S. and B.S.A. Yeoh, Introduction: Globalisation and the politics of forgetting, Urban Studies, 41, no. 12 (2004), 2295-2301.
  • Devasahayam, T., S. Huang and B.S.A. Yeoh, Southeast Asian Migrant Women: Navigating Borders, Negotiating Scales, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 25, no. 2 (2004), 135-140.
  • Lam, T. and B.S.A. Yeoh, Negotiating ‘Home’ and ‘National Identity’: Chinese-Malaysian Transmigrants in Singapore, Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 45, no. 2 (2004), 141-164.
  • Asis, M., S. Huang and B.S.A Yeoh, When the Light of the Home is Abroad: Unskilled Female Migration and the Filipino Family, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 25, no. 2 (2004), 198-215.
  • Wong, T., B.S.A. Yeoh, E.F. Graham and P. Teo, Spaces of silence: single parenthood and the ‘normal family’ in Singapore, Population, Space and Place, 10, no. 1 (2004), 43-58.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A., S. Huang and T. Devasahayam, Diasporic subjects in the nation: Foreign domestic workers, the reach of law and civil society in Singapore, Asian Studies Review, 28 (2004), 7-23.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A., S. Huang, and T. Wong, Gender representation in geography: Singapore, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 28, no. 1 (2004), 121-131.
  • Boyle, P., E. Graham, and B.S.A. Yeoh, Editorial Introduction: Labour Migration and the Family in Asia, International Journal of Population Geography, 9, no. 6 (2003), 437-441.
  • Sidaway, J.D., T. Bunnell and B.S.A. Yeoh, Editors’ introduction: Geography and postcolonialism, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 24, no. 3 (2003), 269-272.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A., K. Willis and S.M.A.K. Fakhri, Transnationalism and its edges, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 26, no. 2 (2003), 207-217.
  • Pratt, G. and B.S.A. Yeoh, Transnational (counter) topographies, Gender, Place and Culture, 10, no. 2 (2003), 156-166.
  • Huang, S. and B.S.A. Yeoh, The difference gender makes: state policy and contract migrant workers in Singapore, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 12, no. 1-2 (2003), 75-98.
  • Teo, P., E. Graham, B.S.A. Yeoh and S. Levy, Values, change and inter-generational ties between two generations of women in Singapore, Ageing and Society, 23 (2003), 327-347.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A., W. Lutz, V. Prachuabmoh and E.N. Arifin, A brief survey of fertility decline in Asia: Trends, implications and futures, Journal of Population Research, 20, no. 1 (2003), iii-ix.
  • Willis, K. and B.S.A. Yeoh, Gendering transnational communities: A comparison of Singaporean and British migrants in China, Geoforum, 33, no. 4 (2002), 553-565.
  • Willis, K., B.S.A. Yeoh and S.M.A.K. Fakhri, Transnational elites, Geoforum, 33, no. 4 (2002), 505-507.
  • Graham, E., P. Teo, B.S.A. Yeoh and S. Levy, Reproducing the Asian family across the generations: ‘tradition’, gender and expectations in Singapore, Asia-Pacific Population Journal (Special Issue on Gender, Family, and Fertility in Asia), 17, no. 2 (2002), 61-86.
  • Chan, A. and B.S.A. Yeoh, Gender, Family, and Fertility in Asia: An Introduction, Asia-Pacific Population Journal (Special Issue on Gender, Family, and Fertility in Asia), 17, no. 2 (2002), 5-10.
  • Lam, T., B.S.A. Yeoh and L. Law, Sustaining families transnationally: Chinese-Malaysians in Singapore, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 11, no. 1 (2002), 1-11.
  • Tan, B. H. and B.S.A. Yeoh, The remains of the dead and the spatial politics of nation-building in post-war Singapore, Human Ecology Review, 9, no. 1 (2002), 1-13.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A., E. Graham and P. Boyle, Migrations and family relations in the Asia-Pacific region, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 11, no. 1 (2002), 117-143.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A. and T.C. Chang, Globalising Singapore: Debating transnational flows in the city. Urban Studies, 38, no. 7 (2001), 1025-1044.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A., Postcolonial Cities, Progress in Human Geography, 25, no. 3 (2001), 456-468.
  • Boyle, P., E. Graham and B.S.A. Yeoh, International Workshop on Migration and the ‘Asian Family’ in a Globalising World, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 22, no. 2 (2001), 202-203.
  • Teo, P. and B.S.A. Yeoh, The viability of theme parks in Singapore during the Asian economic crisis and beyond, Pacific Tourism Review, 5 (2001), 97-111.
  • Willis, K. and B.S.A. Yeoh, Gender and transnational migration strategies: Singaporean migration to China, Regional Studies, 34, no. 3 (2000), 253-264.
  • Huang, S., P. Teo and B.S.A. Yeoh, Diasporic subjects and identity negotiations: Women in and from Asia, Women’s Studies International Forum, 23, no. 4 (2000), 391-398.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A., From Colonial neglect to post-independence heritage: The Housing landscape in the Central Area of Singapore, City and Society, 12, no. 1 (2000), 103-124.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A. and S. Huang, Teaching gender(ed) values in Singapore, International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 9, no. 1 (2000), 71-74.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A., S. Huang and K. Willis, Global cities, transnational flows and gender dimensions: The view from Singapore, Tijdschrift Voor Economische En Social Geografie (Journal of Economic and Social Geography), 2, no. 2 (2000), 147-158.
  • Driver, F. and B.S.A. Yeoh, “Constructing the tropics: Introduction”, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 21, 1 (2000), 1-5.
  • Yeoh, B.S.A. and S. Huang, ‘Home’ and ‘away’: Foreign domestic workers and negotiations of diasporic identity in Singapore, Women’s Studies International Forum, 23, no. 4 (2000), 413-429.

Other Information

Editorial Boards of Peer Reviewed Journals:

  • Applied Mobilities (Editorial Board Member, 2016 to present)
  • ARI-Springer Asia Series (Series Editor, 2009 to present)
  • Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (International Advisory Board member)
  • Asian Population Studies (Editorial Board Member, 2004 to 2015; Editor, 2015 to present)
  • Diversities (Editorial Board Member, 2010 to present)
  • Ecumene, A Journal of Environment, Culture, Meaning, renamed Cultural Geographies (International Advisory Board Member)
  • Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy (Editorial Board Member, 2014 to 2016)
  • Finisterra – Revista Portuguesa de Geografia (Portuguese Journal of Geography), (International Editorial Commission, 2010 to present)
  • Gender, Place and Culture (International Advisory Board Member, 2001 to 2004; Editor, 2004 to 2007; Editor-in-Chief, 2008 to 2011; Editorial Board Member, 2011 to present)
  • Gender, Technology and Development (Advisory Board, 2009 to present)
  • Geography Compass (Editorial Board Member of the Development Geography Section, 2014 to present)
  • Geographical Research (Editorial Board Member, April 2014 to March 2018)
  • Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation (GOJST) Series (Board Member, 2013 to present)
  • Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS) (Editorial Board Member, 2015 to present)
  • Journal of International Migration and Integration (JIMI) (Advisory Board Member, 2010 to 2013)
  • Journal of Social Transformation (JST) (Editorial Board Member, 2011 to 2012)
  • Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (Editorial Advisory Board Member, 1996 to 2000)
  • Localities (Editorial Board Member, 2011 to present)
  • Medical History (Editorial Board Member, 2015 to 2017)
  • Migration and Development Journal (International Editorial Board Member, 2015 to 2017)
  • Migration, Mobility and Displacement (International Advisory Board, 2015 to present)
  • Migration Studies (Global Editorial Board Member, 2013 to 2016)
  • Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Diversity (MJSD) (Advisory Board Member, 2012 to present)
  • NIAS’ Gendering Asia Book Series (Editorial Advisory Board Member, 2009 to present)
  • Progress in Human Geography (International Advisory Board Member, 2006 to present)
  • Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography (Editorial Board Member, 1991 to 1996; Editor, 1996 to 2000; Book Review Editor, 2000 to 2009; Editorial Board Member, 2010 to present)
  • Studies in Global Migration History, a sub-series of Studies in Global Social History (Editorial Board Member, 2013 to 2015).
  • Studies on Women & Gender Abstracts (Editorial Board Member, 2010 to present)
  • The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs (International Advisory Board, 2011 to present)
  • The Open Urban Studies Journal (Editorial Board Member, 2007 to present)
  • Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (Editorial Board Member, 2013 to 2015)
  • Urban Studies (International Advisory Board Member, 2004 to present)
     

Academic and Professional Awards:

  • Public Administration Award (Silver, 2015)
  • Outstanding University Researcher Award (2000), awarded by NUS for research on transnational migration and global cities
  • Fulbright Scholarship, attached to the Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley (2000) 
  • FASS Teaching Excellence Award (1994) 
  • North Senior Scholarship, St John's College, Oxford (1990-91) 

Previous Positions

Appointments Held

Jan 2010 – present       Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS 
Jul 2004 – present        Research Leader, Asian Migration Research Cluster, Asia Research Institute, 
                                NUS
Jan 2005 – present       Professor, Department of Geography, NUS
Jul 2010 – Jun 2013      External Examiner for Bachelor of Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong
Jan 2009 – Dec 2009    Vice-Dean (Research), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS
Jan 2006 – Dec 2008    Head, Department of Southeast Asian Studies, NUS
Jan 1999 – Dec 2004    Associate Professor, Department of Geography, NUS
Jan 2000 – Dec 2000    Associate Dean, Office of Research and Graduate Studies, NUS
Jan 1998 – Dec 2001    Director, Centre for Advanced Studies
Jan 1999 – Dec 1999    Vice-Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS
Jan 1996 – Dec 1997    Acting Deputy Head, Department of Geography, NUS
Jan 1996 – Dec 1998    Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, NUS 
                                (Aug-Dec 1998, redesignated Assistant Professor)
May 1991 – Dec 1995   Lecturer, Department of Geography, NUS
May 1987 – Feb 1988   Senior Tutor, Department of Geography, NUS
Jun 1986 – Apr 1987    General Education Officer, Victoria Junior College, Singapore


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