Yifan Liu

Yifan Liu is a PhD candidate in social justice education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, with a collaborative specialization in diaspora and transnational studies. Her research interests include sociology of education, youth mobilities and (im)migration, Chinese and Asian diaspora, and ethnocultural and linguistic diversity in education. Her recent work engages critically with international student mobility, focusing on how transnationalism, racialization, family contexts, and institutional structures shape students’ education experiences and constructions of belonging across transnational spaces. She co-founded and co-chairs the UofT China Education Forum, fostering cross-cultural and international education exchanges.

Yifan is a member of The Racialization of Asian International Students Collective.

• Quebec Canada
• Race & Anti-Racism