Carol Chan

• Libros
  • Montt Strabucchi, Chan, Carol y Ríos, Elvira. 2022. Chineseness in Chile: Shifting Representations in the 21st Century. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Ramirez, Carolina, Chan, Carol y Stefoni, Carolina (eds). 2021. Migraciones, espacios y etnicidades: aproximaciones críticas desde la etnografía. RIL.
  • Chan, Carol. 2018. In Sickness and in Wealth: Migration, Gendered Morality, and Central Java, Indiana University Press.
  • Montt Strabucchi, Maria; Carol Chan; Elvira Rios. 2026. Lo Chino en Chile: Representaciones cambiantes en el siglo XXI. FCE
• Revistas
  • Chan, Carol, and Maria Montt. Forthcoming. “I wish I looked more Chinese”: Contemporary (re)encounters with “race” and racialization for Chileans of Chinese descent, China Quarterly.
  • Chan, Carol, Javiera Reyes-Navarro, Kalil Abu-Qalbein Koda. (2025). Becoming Nikkei: Creating, challenging, and expanding Nikkei identification among Chileans of Japanese descent. Comparative Migration Studies, 13 (51). DOI: 10.1186/s40878-025-00472-w.
  • Chan, Carol, Jinok Choi & Javiera Reyes-Navarro (2025): “I was still the weirdo but now cool”: the impact of Hallyu on affective experiences of racialization among Chileans of Korean descent, Ethnic and Racial Studies, DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2025.2490186
  • Chan, Carol. (2025). Hostile Friendships. American Anthropology. 127(2): 255-265. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.28052
  • Chan, C. 2023.“Patchwork Infrastructures: Indonesian and Filipino multinational migratory trayectories to Chile”, Applied Mobilities. DOI: 10.1080/23800127.2023.2295185
  • Chan, C. & R. Fernandez-Ossandon. 2023. “Compañerismo:” Care and power in affective labor relations, Critical Sociology, 49(4–5), 707–723. https://doi.org/10.1177/08969205221100268
  • Chan, C. & N. Gomez-Dunker. 2023. “Challenges to addressing trafficking into forced labor into Chile: A legal culture perspective”, Crime, Law & Social Change, 79,  395–416. DOI: 10.1007/s10611-022-10059-6 
  • Chan, C. 2021. “Permanent Migrants and Temporary Citizens: Multi-National Chinese Mobilities in the Americas,” Special issue: Multinational Migrations, Global Networks, 21 (1): 64-83.
• Capítulos de libros
  • Chan, C. 2023. “Diverse and shifting everyday experiences of “China in Chile,” en China-Latin America and the Caribbean: Infrastructure, Connectivity, and Everyday Life, eds Enrique Dussel Peters, James Cook, Joseph Alter. (University of Pittsburgh Press)
  • Gomez, N. & C. Chan. 2021. “Sudeste asiático: el puente regional,” Asia: un continente por descubrir, eds. Tatiana Gelvez y Margarita Vaca Cuevas (Galda Verlag), 221-252
  • Chan, C. & M. Montt Strabucchi. 2020. “Chapter 1: Creating and Negotiating ‘Chineseness’ through Chinese restaurants in Santiago, Chile,” en American Chinese Restaurant: Society, Culture, and Consumption, eds. Jenny Banh and Haiming Liu (Routledge International), 3-25
  • Chan, C. 2017. “’Freedom is elsewhere’: Circulating Affect and Aversion for Asian and Islamic Others in Migrant-Origin Villages in Indonesia”, eds. Daniel Goh and Chih-ming Wang. Precarious Belongings: Affect and Nationalism in Asia (London: Rowman & Littlefield International), 117-135
• Proyectos
  • 2024-2027. Investigadora responsable, Proyecto FONDECYT Regular (No. 1240146) “Tracing Chilean Asianness: An ethnography of an invisible, diverse, and ‘socially inconceivable’ group”
  • 2023-2026. Investigadora adjunta. Proyecto NUCLEO MILENIO ICLAC, “Impactos de China en América Latina”
  • 2020-2023. Investigadora responsable. Proyecto FONDECYT Iniciación (No. 11200270) “Mobilizing Asia-Latin America as method: A multi-sited ethnography of migration infrastructure and brokerage between Southeast Asia and Chile”2021-2024. Co-investigadora. Proyecto FONDECYT Regular (No. 1210743) “Construyendo sujetos-ciudadanos: migración, practicas residenciales y tecnologías de gobierno en el Gran Santiago”
  • 2021. Co-investigadora. “Migración y empresas chinas en el Pacifico Sur: una visión a largo plazo”. Proyecto de Ford Foundation – BUIILD CHINA, Centro de Estudios sobre China y Asia-Pacifico, Universidad del Pacifico (Peru)
  • 2017-2020. Investigadora responsable. FONDECYT postdoctorado (No. 3170051) “Una etnografía de las personas chinas en Santiago de Chile: Examinando migración multi-nodal para repensar practicas transnacionales e integración social”
  • 2017-2019. Co-investigadora. Proyecto Cooperación Internacional CONICYT (REDI170315) “Migración, etnicidad y espacio: aproximaciones críticas desde la etnografía”
  • 2015-2016. Investigadora responsable. “To Send or Carry? Gendered Evaluations of Formal and Informal Remittance Practices in Migrant-Origin Villages in Central Java, Indonesia” Research fellowship de Institute of Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion, University of California Irvine, USA

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