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  • Title: Doctor
  • Position: Senior Lecturer - Department of Marketing and Management
  • Qualifications: BA (Renmin), MA and PhD (U of Hawaii)

Contact Details

  • Ph: (61-2) 9850 8445
  • Email Fei Guo
  • Fax: (+61-2) 9850 6065
  • Room: 627, building: E4A

Areas of Expertise

  • Demographic change and migration
  • Skilled and student migration and labour market
  • Social stratification of migrant communities
  • Demography of contemporary China
  • Fertility behaviour of migrants

Profile

Fei is a Senior Lecturer in demography. She received her PhD from the University of Hawaii and the East-West Center and has held academic positions at the Australian National University (ANU) and the University of Wollongong. She was the Australian country coordinator in a Ford Foundation funded larger research project on return skilled migration in four Asia Pacific countries when she worked at University of Wollongong. Since joining Macquarie in 2002, Fei has held a number of research grants, including a large research grant from the Ford Foundation to study migration and urban poverty in China and more recently an Australian Research Council (ARC) funded Discovery grant to study rural migrant labour in large Chinese cities. She has published articles in such journals as International Migration Review, Asian and Pacific Migration Review, Habitat International, China Perspectives, and Asian Public Policy Review. She has also guest-edited a special issue for the Asian and Pacific Migration Review and 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.

Research grants

  • 2007-2009, ARC-Discovery Project Grant ($237,000) to carry out a multi-city study in China entitled “Migrant Labour in Large Chinese Cities” (with Prof. G. Hugo, Uni. of Adelaide and Prof. Yuan X. Nankai University). This project investigates the nature of labour migration in China and its drivers by linking labour market segmentation to uneven demographic changes. It examines the urban sectors that are most dependent on migrants in four large cities and the implications for policy on internal migration in China.
  • 2006-2007, Macquarie University Research Development Grant ($28,150) to carry out “Migrant Labour in Large Chinese Cities – A Pilot Study”.
  • 2003-2005, a research grant from the Ford Foundation to study “Shantytowns in Chinese cities: a five-city study of migration and urban poverty”($119,000) (with Prof. Cai Fang, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences). This project investigates the social structure of shantytown communities in Chinese cities, community governance, connection/disconnection with local society, and settlement and livelihoods of the residents in the shantytowns. The results from the project provide insights into the new features of social stratification in contemporary Chinese society.

Research awards

  • 2011 Excellent Teaching Award, Faculty of Business and Economics, Macquarie University
  • 1997 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Australian National University.
  • 1996 Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Population Council, New York.


Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

  • Huang, Y. and F. Guo (2011) “Stay or return? Settlement intention and exclusion mechanism of rural migrants in the metropolises of China”, Population Research and Policy Review (accepted March 2011, in press).
  • Chen, J. and F. Guo (2011) “Chinese Urbanization and Urban Housing Growth since the mid 1990s”, Journal of Housing and the Built Environment (accepted in Nov. 2010, in press).
  • Chen, J., F. Guo, and Y. Wu (2011) “One Decade of Urban Housing Reform in China: Urban housing price dynamics and the role of migration and urbanization, 1995-2005”, Habitat International, available online 29 March 2010, DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2010.02.003.
  • Guo, F. (2010) “Demographic Structure and International Student Mobility: an Investigation of Chinese Students in Australia”, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, Vol. 19, no. 1, pp143-156.
  • Guo F. and Z. Cheng (2010) Labour Market Disparity, Poverty and Inequality in Urban China”, China Perspectives, vol. 4, pp16-30.
  • Chen, J. and F. Guo (2010) “Accommodating Migrants in the Post-Reform Urban China: The Perspective of the Chinese Hukou System”, International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Vol. 5, Issue 2, pp173-188.
  • Huang, Y., F..Guo and Y. Tang (2010) “Hukou status and social exclusion of rural-urban migrants in transitional China”, Journal of Asian Public Policy, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp172-185.
  • Guo, F. (2010) “International Mobility of Students to and from Australia and the Relationship with Labour Mobility: An Update on Chinese Students”, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, vol. 18, no. 1
  • Guo, F. and Z. Zhang (2007), “Social Stratification in Migrant-concentrated Communities in China: Findings from a Five-city Study of Migration and Urban Poverty”, International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, vol. 1, no. 4, pp81-92Guo, F. (2007), “Fertility Behaviours of rural-urban migrants in China”, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, vol. 16, no. 1.
  • Parr, N. and F. Guo (2005), “Occupational concentration and mobility of Asian immigrants in Australia”, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, vol. 14., no. 3.
  • Guo, F . (2004) "A rural migrant community in urban Beijing ", Social Sciences Volume on Urban Sustainability, The Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, EOLSS Publishers, UNESCO.
  • Guo, F . and Iredale, R. (2004) "The impacts of Hukou status on migrants' employment: findings from the 1997 Beijing Migrant Census" International Migration Review, vol. 38, no. 2.
  • Guo, F. (2002) “School attendance of migrant children in Beijing, China: a multivariate analysis,” Asia Pacific Migration Journal Vo. 11. No.3.
  • Lai, D, F. Guo, and Hardy, R. (2000), “Standardized mortality ratio and life expectancy: a comparative study of the Chinese mortality”, International Journal of Epidemiology, Vol. 29, pp.852-855.
  • Iredale, R. and F. Guo (2000), “Theoretical explanation and policy framework for female labor migration in Asia: case study of the Philippines”, Oriental Geographer, vol. 44, no.1. Pp.3-16.
  • Yang, X. and F. Guo (1999), “Gender difference in determinants of temporary labor migration in China: A multilevel analysis”, International Migration Review, vol. 33. No. 4. Pp. 929-953.
  • Guo, F. (1999), Book review on Fate and Fortune in Rural China: Social organization and population behavior in Liaoning 1774-1873 (by J. Lee and C. Campbell), in Population Studies, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 108-109.
  • Yang, Q. and F. Guo (1996), “Occupational Attainments of Rural to Urban Temporary Economic Migration in China, 1985-1990”, International Migration Review, vol. 30, no. 3.
  • Guo, F. (1995), Book review on Migration and Urbanization in China (by Day, L. and Ma, X.) for China Review International, spring vol. pp 57-59, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, HI.
  • Choe, M., F. Guo, Zhang, R., and Wu, J. (1992), “Progression to Second and Third Births in China: Patterns and Covariates in Six Provinces”, International Family Planning Perspectives, vol. 18, no. 4, 1992, pp.130-136.

Conferences and Presentations

  • Guo, F. and Z. Zhang (2006), “Transforming Urban Villages: Social Stratification In Migrant Communities In China,” in the Proceedings of ACESA 2006 International Conference: Emerging China http://www.cfses.com/06confchina/program.htm
  • Guo, F. and Zhang, Z. (2004), "Rural migrants and shantytown communities in Chinese cities", Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the Association for Chinese Economics Studies Australia (ACESA).
  • Guo, F. and Iredale, R. (2003), “Unemployment among the migrant population in Chinese cities: the case study of Beijing, in Coate, B., R. Brooks, I. Fraser and L. Xu (ed.) Proceedings of the 15 th Annual Conference of the Association for Chinese Economic Studies Australia (ACESA), Melbourne: RMIT Business Research Development Unit.
  • Guo, F. (1991), “The Trends of Marital Fertility, Second and Third Birth in China, 1966-1987”, in Fertility in China: Proceeding of the International Seminar on China's In-depth Fertility Survey, pp 205-222, 1991, Voorburg, The Netherlands.

Books

  • Guo, F., G. Hugo and Z. Zhang (forthcoming 2012) Accommodating China’s Great Migration: Urban Villages and Migrant Communities, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK.
  • Tani, M., F. Guo and G. Hugo (2010) (ed.) “New Developments in Australia’s Skilled Migration Flows”, a special issue in the Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, Vol. 19, no. 1.
  • Zhao, Z. and F. Guo (ed.) (2007), Population in China at the Beginning of the 21st Century (ed.) Oxford University Press, U. K.
  • Iredale, R., F. Guo, and S. Rozario (ed.) (2003) Return Migration in the Asia Pacific, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham , U. K.
  • Iredale, R., Bilik, N. and Guo, F . (eds.) (2003) China 's Minority on the Move , M. E. Sharpe Inc. Armonk , New York.
  • Iredale, R. Bilik, B. Wang, S. Guo, F. and Hoy, C. (2001), Contemporary minority migration, education and ethnicity in China, Edward Elgar Publishing, UK.

Book Chapters

  • Guo, F. and Gao, W. (2008) What determines welfare and social security entitlements of rural migrants in Chinese cities?”, in I. Nelson and R. Smyth (ed.) Migration and Social Protection in China, New Jersey: World Scientific.
  • Zhao, Z. and F. Guo (2007), “Introduction” in Zhao and Guo (ed.) Population in China at the Beginning of the 21st century, Oxford University Press, U. K
  • Guo, F. (2007), “The impact of temporary migration on migrants and their communities” in Zhao and Guo (ed.) Population in China at the Beginning of the 21st century, Oxford University Press, U. K.
  • Iredale, R. and Guo, F. (2003) “Gendered migration in the Asia Pacific region: case studies of the Philippines, Indonesia and China” in R. Iredale, C. Hawksley & S. Castles (ed.) Migration in the Asia Pacific: Population, Settlement and Citizenship Issues. Edward Elgar Publishing, UK.
  • Iredale, R., F. Guo and S. Rozario (2003), “Introduction”, in Iredale, Guo and Rozario, eds. Return Migration in the Asia Pacific, pp1-25, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK.
  • Guo, F. and R. Iredale (2003), “The view from Australia”, in Iredale, Guo and Rozario, eds. Return Migration in the Asia Pacific, pp26-46, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK.
  • Luo, K., F. Guo and P. Huang (2003), “China: Government policies and emerging trends of reversal of the brain drain”, in Iredale, Guo and Rozario, eds. Return Migration in the Asia Pacific, pp 88-111, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK.
  • Iredale, R. N. Bilik and F. Guo (2003), “Overview of minority migration”, in Iredale, Bilik and Guo eds. China’s Minorities on the Move, pp-3-31, M. E. Sharpe, Armonk, New York, US.
  • Choe, M. Zhang, R. Wu, J and Guo, F. (1996), “The pace of family building in Modern China”, in China: the Many Facets of Demographic Changes, edited by Alice Goldstein and Wang Feng, Westview Press.

PhD Student Supervision

Current Postgraduate Research Students

  • PhD student, Junhua Chen, thesis title “Migration, Urbanization, and the Dual Labour Market: Analysis of Dynamics and Constraints of Chinese Urban Housing Growth”. Junhua has recently submitted his thesis (principal supervisor).
  • PhD student, Yeqing Huang, thesis title “Social exclusion of rural-urban migrants in transitional China”. Yeqing has recently submitted her thesis (principal supervisor).
  • PhD student, Christine Brickenstein (Law, commenced Feb 2010), thesis investigating seasonal migrant worker schemes in Australia, New Zealand, Germany and France (associate supervisor).
  • PhD student, Nila Sharma (Arts/FBE, commencing May 2011), thesis investigating demographic structure and communities of South Asian migrants in Sydney region (co-supervisor).

Research interests

  • Demographic transition and international migration
  • Student and skilled migration and labour market
  • Return migration and migration network
  • Internal migration and migrant communities in China
  • Urban land reform and urban expansion in China
  • Application of demography in planning

Teaching Interests

Fei’s teaching interests range from conventional demography subjects to marketing research methods and experiential learning in international business studies. She has taught both undergraduate and postgraduate subjects and has also contributed to honours program teaching. During Fei’s academic career she has taught courses on:

  • Demographic techniques
  • Demographic fundamentals
  • Topics in demography
  • Business demographics
  • Marketing research
  • Methods of demographic analysis
  • Quantitative research methods
  • Sociology of Contemporary China
  • International study tour

Lecturing and Tutoring

2002 to present, Lecturer-in-charge/lecturer/tutor

  • Demographic techniques
  • Demographic fundamentals
  • International study tour
  • Topics in demography
  • Business demography
  • Marketing Research

Professional Affiliations

Fei has been a member of a number of professional associations and organizations, including the International Union for the Scientific Studies in Population (IUSSP), Population Association of America (PAA) and Australian Population Association (APA).  She has been one of Australian coordinators for the Asia Pacific Migration Network (APMRN). Currently she is a member of the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion (CRSI), a CORE research centre of Macquarie University. In 2010, she was the co-leader of CRSI’s research cluster migration and multiculturalism. Since 2006 she has been an assessor for the Australian Research Council in its discovery and linkage schemes and has refereed for the following journals:

  • International Migration Review
  • International Migration
  • Demography
  • Asian and Pacific Migration Review
  • Asia Pacific Viewpoints
  • Asian Population Studies
  • Journal of Population Research
  • Chinese Southern Diaspore Studies
  • Journal of Psychosocial Intervention

Fei has been a member of Bachelor of Social Sciences (BSocSc) committee of Macquarie University since 2005 and was a member of a number of other committees/panels, including the faculty research committee (2007), Postgraduate research grant review panel (2008) and elected staff member on the Faculty Executive Committee (2009).

Overview of Academic Employment

  • 2005 – present, Senior Lecturer in Demography, Department of Marketing and Management, Macquarie University.
  • 2002 – 2005 Lecturer in Demography, Department of Business, Macquarie University.
  • 1999 – 2001 Research Fellow, the Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS), University of Wollongong.
  • 1997 – 1999 Andrew W. Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow, Demography Program, Australian National University.
  • 1996 Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Hawaii.
  • 1995 Pre-doctoral Fellow, Population Council, New York.