Miao David Chunyu (淳于淼)
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Sociology, University at Albany (SUNY-Albany)
C.G.S., Demography, SUNY-Albany
B.E., Engineering Economics, Tianjin University, China
B.A., English, Tianjin University, China
Research Interests
Migration/Immigration, Race and Ethnicity, Urban
Sociology, China, GIS
Select Publications
Chunyu, Miao David, Zai Liang, and Yingfeng Wu. Forthcoming. “Interprovincial Return Migration in China: Individual and Contextual Determinants in Sichuan Province in the 1990s.” Environment and Planning A.
Liang, Zai and Miao David Chunyu. Forthcoming. “Migration within China and from China to the USA: The Effects of Migration Networks, Selectivity, and the Rural
Political Economy in Fujian Province.” Population Studies.
Liang, Zai, Miao David Chunyu, Guotu Zhuang, and Wenzhen Ye. 2008.
“Cumulative Causation, Market Transition, and Emigration from China.” American
Journal of Sociology 114(3): 706-737.
Conferences and Presentations
Logan, John R., Weiwei Zhang, and Miao David Chunyu. 2013. "Emergent Ghettos: Black Neighborhoods in New York and Chicago, 1880-1940." Paper presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America. New Orleans, LA. April.
Chunyu, Miao David, Ying Liu, Zhuping Zhou, and Michael J. White. 2012. “An
Origin-Destination Linked Approach to Measuring the Effect of Migration on
Income in the Context of China.” Paper presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of
the Population Association of America. San Francisco, CA. May.
Chunyu, Miao David. 2011. “Earnings Growth Patterns of Chinese Labor
Immigrants in the United States.” Paper presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of
the Population Association of America. Washington, D.C. April.
Liang, Zai, Miao David Chunyu, and Yingfeng Wu. 2011. “Interprovincial
Return Migration in China: Individual and Contextual Determinants.” Paper
presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America.
Washington, D.C. April.
Lu, Yao, Zai Liang, and Miao David Chunyu. 2010. “The Social Process of
Chinese Emigrants to Europe and US: A Comparative Perspective.” Paper presented
at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Atlanta,
GA. August.
Chunyu, Miao David. 2010. “Job Transition Patterns of Recent Unskilled
Chinese Immigrants in the United States.” Paper presented at the 2010 Annual
Meeting of the Population Association of America. Dallas, TX. April.
Liang, Zai, Miao David Chunyu, and Zhongdong Ma. 2009. “Migration and
Transformation of Rural China.” Paper presented at the XXVI International
Population Conference of the International Union for the Scientific Study of
Population (IUSSP). Marrakech, Morocco. September.
Chunyu, Miao David. 2009. “Pathway to Entrepreneurship for Recent Chinese
Immigrants in the United States.” Paper presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of
the Population Association of America. Detroit. April.
Awards
Doctoral Fellowship from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International
Scholarly Exchange (USA)
IUSSP XXV International Population Conference Participant
Travel Grant from the Wellcome Trust (UK)
Professional Memberships
- American Sociological Association (ASA)
- Population Association of America (PAA)