Liu Liangni

Name: Liu Liangni

Professional title: Professor

Email: liuliangni@ncu.edu.cn

Main Research Areas and Directions: Transnational/international migration, ethnic relations, global consciousness, public health, China-New Zealand relations, Asian Studies, Pacific Studies

Major Academic Achievements:

Publications:

Books: 2

Liu, Liangni Sally and Guanyuan Jason Ran, 2022, New Chinese migrants in New Zealand

and their multi-generational families - Floating families? in Routledge Series on Asian Migration, Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Liu, Liangni Sally, 2018. Chinese Transnational Migration in the Age of Global modernity: The Case of Oceania, Oxford, UK: Routledge.

Refereed journal articles: 27 (Author name with * means corresponding author.)

Jia, Xiaoyun, Minyi Wang, Anni Lu, Andrew Zhu, Jun Lu*, and Liangni Sally Liu*, 2026.

“Effects of Social Media Consumption on Loneliness and Depression During the Pandemic: A Quantitative Online Survey With the Asian Community of New Zealand”. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand (DOI: 10.1002/snz2.70014 ). (impact factor 2.2; JCR Q2)

Siegert, Richard, Andrew Zhu, Xiaoyun Jia, Guanyu Jason Ran, Nigel French, David

Johnston, Jun Lu, and Liangni Sally Liu*, 2025. “A cross-sectional online survey of depression symptoms among New Zealand’s Asian community in the first 10 months of the COVID-19 pandemic”. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand (DOI: 10.1080/03036758.2023.2251900). (impact factor 2.2; JCR Q2)

Liu, Liangni Sally, Xiaoyun Jia, Andrew Zhu, Guanyu Jason Ran, David Johnston,

Richard Siegert, Yuan Gong, Nigel French* and Jun Lu*, 2024. “Measuring the missing: Knowledge, risk perceptions and self-protection practices of COVID-19 among the Asian population in New Zealand: An online survey”. Journal of Public Health (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10389-023-01926-0). (impact factor 1.8; JCR Q1).

Liu, Liangni Sally*, Xiaoyun Jia, Andrew Zhu, Guanyu Jason Ran, Richard Siegert, Nigel French and David Johnston*, 2022. “Stigmatising and racialising COVID-19: Asian New Zealanders’ experience in New Zealand”. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities (DOI: 10.1007/s40615-022-01448-7). (impact factor 3.9; JCR Q2).

Liu, Liangni Sally, Guanyu Jason Ran and Xiaoyun Jia*, 2022. “New Zealand border

restrictions amidst COVID-19 and their impacts on temporary migrant workers”. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, Special Issues - The politics of sanitization: Pandemic crisis, migration and development in Asia-Pacific. DOI: 10.1177//0117196822126206 (impact factor 1.4; JCR Q4; ERA B-ranked).

Liu, Liangni Sally* and Guanyu Jason Ran, 2022. “Contemporary family immigration

under New Zealand’s neoliberal immigration regime”. Journal of Population Research, Vol. 39: 73-95 (DOI:10.1007/s12546-022-09279-3) (impact factor 2.0; ERA B-ranked).

Liu, Tao and Liangni Sally Liu*, 2022. “Transnational physical activity and sport

engagement of new Asian migrants in Aotearoa/New Zealand”. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, Vol. 63(2): 306-312 (DOI:10.1111/apv.12330) (impact factor 1.4; JCR Q1).

Liu, Liangni Sally and Guanyu Jason Ran*, 2021. “A conceptual framework for studying

transnational migrant family experiences: The phenomenon of Chinese seasonal parents/grandparents in New Zealand”. Population, Space and Place,Vol. 28(4): e2527. (DOI://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2527). (impact factor 2.4; JCR Q2)

Ran, Guanyu Jason and Liangni Sally Liu*, 2021. “Re-constructing reverse family

remittance: The case of new Chinese immigrant families in New Zealand”. Journal of

Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol 49(1): 313-331. (DOI:10.1080/1369183X.2021.11999221). (impact factor 3.3; JCR Q1)

Liu, Liangni Sally* and Guanyu Jason Ran, 2020. “Ethnic solidarity in combating the

COVID-19 threat in New Zealand”. Global e, Vol.13(47). (https://www.21global.ucsb.edu/global-e/july-2020/ethnic-solidarity-combating-covid-19-threat-new-zealand).

Ran, Guanyu Jason and Liangni Sally Liu*, 2020. “‘Forced’ family separation and inter-

generational dynamics:Multi-generational new Chinese immigrant families in New Zealand”. Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Vol.16(1): 148-167 (DOI: 10.1080/1177083X.2020.1801772). (impact factor 1.6; JCR Q2)

Ma’Auga, Tessa and Liangni Sally Liu*, 2020. “Mana Whenua: Points of convergence in

Chinese and Māori worldviews regarding harmonious relationships”. New Zealand

Journal of Asian Studies, Vol.22(1): 43-66. (ERA B-ranked)

Liu, Liangni Sally*, Robert Didham and Jun Lu, 2017. “Mapping Chinese return migration

from New Zealand – A quantitative data analysis from a comparative perspective”. Diaspora, Vol.19(2/3): 195-227 (DOI: 10.3138/diaspora.19.2-3.195). (ERA A-ranked).

Liu, Liangni Sally, 2016. “Intergenerational dimensions of transnational Chinese migrant

families in New Zealand”. Journal of Chinese Overseas, Vol.12 (2): 216-250. (impact factor 0.30; JCR Q4)

Liu, Liangni Sally* and Jun Lu, 2015. “Contesting transnational mobility among New

Zealand’s Chinese migrants from an economic perspective – What does an online survey tell?”. Journal of Chinese Overseas, Vol.11(2): 146-173. (impact factor 0.30; JCR Q4)

Liu, Liangni Sally, 2015. “Examining trans-Tasman migration of New Zealand’s new

immigrants from the People’s Republic of China: a quantitative survey”. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, Vol.56(2): 297-314. (impact factor 1.4; JCR Q1).

Liu, Liangni Sally, 2014. “新西兰的中国跨国移民PRC Chinese Transnational migration in

the case of New Zealand: Returnees and Trans-Tasman migrants”. 华人研究国际学报The International Journal of Diasporic Chinese Studies, Vol.6(1): 41-71.

Liu, Liangni Sally, 2014. “A search for a place to call home: Negotiation of home, identity

and sense of belonging among New Zealand’s new Chinese migrants from the People’s Republic of China (PRC)”. Emotion, Space and Society, Vol.10: 18-26. (impact factor 1.8; JCR Q3)

Bedford, Richard* and Liangni Sally Liu, 2013. “Parents in New Zealand’s family

sponsorship policy: a preliminary assessment of the impact of the 2012 policy changes”. New Zealand Population Review, Vol.39: 25-49. (ERA B-ranked)

Liu, Liangni Sally, 2009. “Home is calling? Or home is on the move? – Return Chinese

migrants of New Zealand as transnationals”. New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, Vol.11(2): 164-71.

Liu, Liangni Sally, 2009. “The Representation of Maori in Local Chinese Language News

Media in New Zealand”. Journal of Intercultural Studies, Vol.30(4): 403-29. (impact factor 1.0; JCR Q3; ERA A-ranked)

Ip, Manying and Liangni Sally Liu, 2008. “Gendered Factors of Chinese Multi-locality

Migration: The New Zealand Case”. Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, Vol.5(2): 31-56.

Liu, Liangni Sally* and Jun Lu, 2008. “Looking at the other: Chinese and Maori Youth

Perspectives”. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, Vol.17(2): 221-30. (impact factor 0.9; JCR Q4; ERA B-ranked).

Liu, Liangni Sally, 2005. “New Zealand’s Changing Attitudes towards Asian Immigration,

1999-2004”. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, Vol.14(4): 467-85. (impact factor 0.9; JCR Q4; ERA B-ranked).

Liu, Liangni Sally, 2004. “The changing status of Chinese women migrants in New Zealand”. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, Vol.13 (4): 511-21. (impact factor 0.9; JCR Q4; ERA B-ranked).

Book chapters: 11

Liu, Liangni Sally*, Guanyu Jason Ran and Xiaoyun Jia, 2022. “Stigmatisation and

racial discrimination in the COVID-19 context: Responses from the Asian community in New Zealand”. In McCarthy, Angela (ed), Narratives of Migrant and Refugee Discrimination in Aotearoa New Zealand, Routledge, UK. Pp. 70-92. (DOI: 10.4324/9781003275077-5).

Liu, Liangni Sally* and Guanyun Jason Ran, 2022. “Making sense of family and home:

Multi-generational immigrant families from China to New Zealand”. In Boccagni, Paolo (ed), Handbook on Home and Migration, Edward Elgar Publishing, UK. Pp. 635-646.

Liu, Liangni Sally*, Guanyu Jason Ran and Yu Wang, 2021. “Bold words, a hero or a

traitor? – Fang Fang’s diaries of the Wuhan lockdown on Chinese social media”. In

Doucet, Brian, Melik, Rianne Van, and Pierre, Filion (eds), Global Reflections on COVID-19 and Urban Inequalities, Bristol University Press, Bristol, UK. Pp. 97-108.

Liu, Liangni Sally, 2021. “Migration, expatriation, and heterosexuality in a globalized

city – Singapore”. In Baisotti, Pablo (ed), Global Cities in Latin America and Asia: Welcome to the Twenty-first Century, University of Michigan Press, Michigan. Pp. 93-113. (DOI: 10.3998/mpub.1205185).

Liu, Liangni Sally, 2021. “新西兰华人新移民: 移民政策、模式、灵活性及接收国的态度

New Chinese Immigration to New Zealand: Policies, immigration patterns, mobility and perception”. In Zhou, Min (ed), 长为异乡客？当代华人新移民Forever Strangers?Contemporary Chinese Immigrants around the World, World Scientific, Singapore. Pp. 239-261.

Liu, Liangni Sally, 2020. “新西兰华人的回流移民:比较视角下的数量分析 (“Sea turtles”

from New Zealand – A quantitative and comparative study”). In Li, Qirong (ed), 国际

与海外华人研究(2017-2018) (Studies of International Migration and Chinese Overseas,2017-2018), China Social Sciences Press 中国社会科学出版社, Beijing 北京, China 中国. Pp. 54-90.

Liu, Liangni Sally* and Xiaoan Wu, 2018. “New Chinese migrants from China to New

Zealand: Pathways, mobility, multigenerational families and policy implications”. In Koh, Sin Yee; and Chan, Yuk Wah (eds), New Chinese Migration: Mobility, Home and Inspirations, Routledge, Oxford, UK. Pp. 54-73.

Liu, Liangni Sally, 2017. “New Chinese Immigration to New Zealand: Policies, immigration

patterns, mobility and perception”. In Zhou, Min (ed), Chinese Diasporas of the 21st Century, Palgrave Macmillan, London. Pp. 233-259.

Liu, Liangni Sally, 2015. “Quantitative Analysis of Transnationalism of Chinese Migrants

from the People's Republic of China in New Zealand - Results from an Online Survey”. In Todd, Carissa (ed), Immigration Policy: Political Influences, Challenges and Economic Impact, Nova Science Publishers, Inc. Hauppauge, New York. USA. Pp. 61-90.

Liu, Liangni Sally, 2011. “New Zealand Case Study of PRC Transnational Migration:

Returnees and Trans-Tasman Migrants”. In Ip, Manying (ed), Transmigration and the New Chinese: Theories and Practices from the New Zealand Experience, Centre of Asian Studies, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Pp. 57-101.

Liu, Liangni Sally, 2009. “Maori issue reports in Contemporary Chinese Language Media”. In Ip, Manying (ed), The Dragon and the Taniwha: Maori and Chinese in New Zealand, University of Auckland Press, Auckland. Pp. 275-99.

Book reviews: 2

Liu, Liangni Sally, 2020. Invited book review (entitled “Taking the citizenship challenge”) for the

book Citizens in Motion: Emigration, Immigration, and Re-migration across China’s borders, in Dialogues in Human Geography. Vol. 10 (3): 390-392. (impact factor 27.0; JCR Q1)

Liu, Liangni Sally, 2019. Invited book review for the book Media and Communication in the

Chinese Diaspora: Rethinking transnationalism, in the Journal of Chinese Overseas, Vol. 15 (2): 291-294.

Opinion article: 1

Liu, Liangni Sally, 2021. “New visa, new reality”. Asia Media Centre, Asia New Zealand

Foundation. 12 October 2021 (https://www.asiamediacentre.org.nz/opinion-and-analysis/a-new-visa-for-new-realities/).

Research grants:

2024-2025  NZASIA Fieldwork Grant    NZ$2,960

2020-2022 2020 COVID-19 and Emerging Infectious Diseases Grant (Ref. No. 20/985), New Zealand Health Research Council (HRC)                            NZ$350,325             

2017-2020 Marsden Fund (Fast-Start) (Ref. No. 16-MAU-023), the Royal Society of New Zealand                                                                                                  NZ$300,000

2018/2019 Chinese Poll-Tax Heritage Trust Research Fund (Ref. No. R-CPTHT-2019-103369), New Zealand                                                                      NZ$1,000