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Lan Pei-Chia | 藍佩嘉

Lan Pei-Chia

Lan Pei-Chia is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at National Taiwan University where she serves as director of the Global Asia Research Center. Her research interests include gender, family, international migration, and social inequality. Her first book Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan and its Chinese language adaptation received numerous awards, including the Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Society and the Taipei Book Fair Award. Her second book, Raising Global Families: Parenting, Immigration, and Class in Taiwan and the US, compares the parenting practices of Taiwanese immigrant parents in the US with their counterparts in Taiwan, demonstrating the variety of parenting strategies used to cope with the challenges of immigration and globalization.