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Fei Guo

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Formal Name: Fei Guo

Personal Title: Dr

Position: Senior Lecturer

Organisational Unit: Department of Business

Telephone: (+61-2) 9850-8445

Fax: (+61-2) 9850-6065

Email: fguo@efs.mq.edu.au

Location: E4A 627

Profile

Fei Guo has a PhD degree from the University of Hawaii and the East-West Center. She joined the Department of Business at Macquarie in 2002. Prior to joining the University she was a Research Fellow at the University of Wollongong, and before that a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Australian National University, which was funded by a prestigious Andrew Mellon Post-doctoral Fellowship.

Teaching Interests

Fei is mainly involved in teaching subjects in demography at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She also contributes to the teaching of marketing research subject and honours program.

Research Interests

Fei is a demographer with research interests in labour migration in China, skilled and business migration in a number of Asian countries, and immigrants' labour market performance in Australia. She has published a number of papers/books in these areas. Currently, she is carrying out a research project to study labour migration and urban poverty in China which is funded by a large grant from the Ford Foundation. Together with Dr. Parr, she has also worked in the area of immigrants' labour market performance in Australia, in which a number of publications are being developed.

Professional Affiliations

Fei is a member of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), the Population Association of America (PAA), and the Australian Population Association (APA). She is also a member of Asia Pacific Migration Research Network (APMRN) based at ANU.

Community Activities and Affiliations

In the past years, Fei has been invited as a referee to review manuscripts for a number of journals, including International Migration Review, International Migration, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, Asia Pacific Viewpoint, and Population and Environment. She has also been invited to review book manuscripts for publishers in the areas of marketing research.

Publications

Books

  • Zhao, Z. and Guo, F. (eds. forthcoming), Transition and Challenge: China’s Population at the Beginning of the 21st Century, Oxford University Press, U. K.
  • Iredale, R., Guo, F . and Rozario, S. (eds.) (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, N, Wang S., Guo, F. and Hoy, C. (2001) Contemporary minority migration, education and ethnicity in China, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK.

Articles in Refereed Journal/Book Chapters/Refereed Conference Proceedings

  • Guo, F. and Zhang, Z. (2006) “Transforming Urban Villages: Social Stratification in Migrant Communities in China”, The Proceedings of ACESA 2006 International Conference: Emerging China: Internal Challenges and Global Implications, Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, Melbourne (http://www.cfses.com/06confchina/program.htm
  • Guo, F. (2006) “Fertility Behaviours of rural-urban migrants in China”, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (in press)
  • Parr, N. and Guo, F. (2005), “Occupational concentration and mobility of Asian immigrants in Australia”, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, vol. 14., no. 3.
  • 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. 1.
  • 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. (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, Cheltenham , UK , pp 79-97
  • Guo, F. and R. Iredale (2003), Unemployment among the migrant population in Chinese cities: the case study of Beijing, in Coate, B., R. Brooks, I. Fraser andL. Xu (ed.) Proceedings of the 15 th Annual Conference of the Association for Chinese Economic Studies Australia (ACESA), Melbourne: RMIT Business Research Development Unit (http://www.rmit.edu.au/bus/events/acesa/proceedings.htm).
  • Guo, F. (2002) "School attendance of migrant children in Beijing , China : a multivariate analysis," Asia Pacific Migration Journal , vol. 11, no. 3. pp357-374.
  • 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.
  • 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.