UW–Madison alumna Min Yu has received the 2024 Best Paper Award from the Comparative and International Education Society’s (CIES) East Asia special interest group (SIG).
Yu’s paper, “Reimagining education and community mobilization in China’s migrant communities: towards an ‘Asia as method’ framework,” was published in the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. According to the abstract, the article “engages in theoretical reflection on how to transcend the imposition of Eurocentric theories onto Southern and Eastern examples.”
“Specifically,” Yu adds, “I reflect on the examination of educational issues faced by marginalized migrant communities within Chinese contexts and explore the application of an ‘Asia as Method’ conceptual framework to reimagine education opportunities for migrant children and community mobilization as it pertains to a politics of recognition and redistribution.”
Yu, who earned her PhD from the School of Education’s departments of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies in 2013, is currently an associate professor of comparative and international education and social studies education in the College of Education at Wayne State University. Her scholarship examines the roles of community organizing and the impact of changing social, political, and economic conditions on the education of children from migrant and immigrant families.