Dr Fei Guo

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Dr. Fei Guo is an Associate Professor of Demography in the Department of Marketing and Management at Macquarie University.  She received her Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii in 1996 and was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship to conduct research at the Australian National University (ANU).  She has also held academic position at the University of Wollongong.  Her main research interests range from skilled migration, return migration and student migration in the Asia Pacific region to internal migration and migrant communities in contemporary China.  Her other research areas include the impacts of demographic changes on residential housing markets and labour market performance of migrant groups in Australia.  She is also interested in the areas of internationalisation of highly skilled professionals and the localisation of workforce in international corporations. Since joining Macquarie University in 2002, Dr. Guo’s research has been supported by a large grant from the Ford Foundation to study migration and urban poverty in China, a Discovery Project grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC) to study rural migrant labour in large Chinese cities, and a Macquarie Enterprises Partnership research grant to study demographic changes and residential housing markets in Australia.  She has widely published in such journals as International Migration Review, Asian and Pacific Migration Review, Habitat International, China Perspectives, and Journal of Asian Public Policy. Recently she guest-edited a special issue “New Developments in Australia’s Skilled Migration Flows” (with Tani and Hugo) for the Asian and Pacific Migration Review. Her co-edited books on return migration in the Asia Pacific and China's demographic transition were published by Edward Elgar Publishing and the Oxford University Press.  She is currently an Associate Editor of International Migration Review, a high impact academic journal published by the Center for Migration Studies (CMS) of New York.