Dr. Siqi Tu
Vita
Siqi Tu is a postdoctoral fellow at the MPI MMG. Her
dissertation, “Destination Diploma: How Chinese Upper-Middle Class
Families ‘Outsource’ Secondary Education to the United States,”
investigates why and how Chinese upper-middle-class families made
educational decisions to send their children as young as fourteen to the
United States for private high schools. It also documents and analyzes
the actual lived experiences of the students who come alone to the
United States. It is part of her broader research agenda on how
individuals’ identity form and shift and its relevance to global
citizenship. At MPI-MMG, she will work on a follow-up project titled
"Shifting Ethno-racial Identities Across Borders: A Case of Chinese
‘Parachute Students'” to further examine the shifting ethno-racial
identity through the case of Chinese “parachute students” under the
increasing tension between China and the United States, and the surge of
populist anti-immigrant and anti-globalization sentiments.