Xuchun Liu

Dr Xuchun Liu

School of Society and Culture

College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences

Demography/Population Studies:

- international migration;

- transnationalism and diaspora;

- environmental/climate change, migration, and adaptation in China;

- inequality associated with climate change-induced migration.

Date Position Institution name
2017 - ongoing ARC Research Associate University of Adelaide
2006 - 2010 Program manager World Vision China

Language Competency
Chinese (Mandarin) Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review
English Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review

Date Institution name Country Title
2011 - 2015 University of Adelaide Australia PhD
2003 - 2004 Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China Master

Year Citation
2025 Wang, Y., Yeoh, B. S. A., Lam, T., Tan, Y., & Liu, X. (2025). Chinese professional migrants and the rhythms of post-pandemic transnational (im)mobility in Singapore. MOBILITIES, 17 pages.
DOI
2025 Wang, Y., Yeoh, B. S. A., Lam, T., Tan, Y., & Liu, X. (2025). Transnational citizenship pathways of Chinese professional migrants in Singapore: negotiating provisionality, permanence, and emerging precarity in (post-)pandemic times. Citizenship Studies, 1-22.
DOI
2024 Tan, Y., & Liu, X. (2024). Location and visa-category determinants of naturalization in Australia. International Migration, 62(2), 66-92.
DOI Scopus1 WoS4
2022 Tan, Y., & Liu, X. (2022). Measuring diaspora populations and their socio-economic profiles: The example of Australia’s Chinese diaspora. Geographical Research, 60(4), 589-609.
DOI Scopus8 WoS5
2021 Tan, Y., Liu, X., & Rosser, A. (2021). Transnational linkages, power relations, and the migration–development nexus: China and its diaspora. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 62(3), 355-371.
DOI Scopus12 WoS10
2018 Tan, Y., Liu, X., Rosser, A., Yeoh, B., & Guo, F. (2018). Transnationalism, diaspora, and development: a purposive review of the literature. Geography Compass, 12(12), e12413-1-e12413-20.
DOI Scopus19 WoS13
2017 Tan, Y., & Liu, X. C. (2017). Water shortage and inequality in Minqin Oasis of northwest China: Adaptive policies and farmers’ perceptions. Local Environment, OnilnePubl(8), 1-18.
DOI Scopus13 WoS14
2015 Tan, Y., Liu, X., & Hugo, G. (2015). Exploring relationship between social inequality and adaptations to climate change: evidence from urban household surveys in the Yangtze River delta, China. Population and Environment, 36(4), 400-428.
DOI Scopus21 WoS19

Year Citation
2020 Tan, Y., & Liu, X. (2020). Climate extremes, political participation and migration intentions of farmers: A case study in western China. In F. Castillo, M. Wehner, & D. Stone (Eds.), Extreme Events and Climate Change: A Multidisciplinary Approach. United States: Wiley & Sons.
Scopus2
2016 Tan, Y., Liu, X., & Hugo, G. (2016). Exploring the relationship between social inequality and environmentally-induced migration: evidence from urban household surveys in Shanghai and Nanjing of China. In R. McLeman, T. Schade, & T. Faist (Eds.), Environmental Migration and Social Inequality (Vol. 61, pp. 73-90). Switzerland: Springer.
DOI Scopus5 WoS2

Year Citation
2013 Tan, Y., & Liu, X. C. (2013). In-situ adaption and out-migration: Enablers and constraints among rural households of the mountainous region of southern Ningxia, northwest China. Poster session presented at the meeting of XXVII IUSSP International Population Conference. Busan, Korea.

Year Citation
2016 Liu, X. (2016). Australia’s Chinese and Indian business diasporas: Demographic characteristics and engagement in business, trade and investment.

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