Amy Liu

    Amy Liu is an associate professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from Emory University and BAs in mathematics and government from Smith College. Her research focuses on language, ethnicity, and migration. Dr. Liu’s first book, Standardizing Diversity: The Political Economy of Language Regimes [University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015] examines the politics of language regime choices and the socioeconomic implications of such choices. Negotiations are currently ongoing for translations of the book into Chinese, Hungarian, and Romanian. Other publications can be found in the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Politics, International Studies Quarterly, and World Politics. Dr. Liu is currently working on a second book about the political incorporation of migrants. She argues migrants embedded in a lingua franca-speaking migrant network (bridging) are more likely to be politically incorporated than those situated in mother tongue-speaking ones (bonding). The primary evidence is based on surveys of the Chinese in Eastern Europe, but the results are generalizable to (1) the Muslims in Eastern Europe and (2) the Chinese in Western Europe.

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