Yan Zhao

Professor

Fakultet for samfunnsvitenskap

E-post

yan.zhao@nord.no

Telefon

+47 75 51 74 38

Studiested

Bodø

Kontor

Bodø, Hovedbygget, E331

Yan Zhao er professor i sosiologi og sosialt arbeid. Hun er for tiden leder av faggruppa for sosialt arbeid ved Nord universitet.

Zhaos forskning dekker flere migrasjonsrelaterte temaer, som mangfold og etniske relasjoner, konstruksjon av nasjon, migrasjon og helse, aldring og omsorg i migrasjonskontekst, internasjonal velferd/sosialt arbeid og transnasjonalisme. Hun har også teoretiske interesser i feministiske teorier og transnasjonale feministiske bevegelser, postkoloniale teorier og narrative studier. Hun er medlem av tre forskningsgrupper ved Det naturvitenskapelige fakultet: Aldring, omsorg og velferd (ALOVE), Kjønn, etnisitet og likestilling (KEL) og Sosialt arbeid. Hun er også medlem av Observatory of Migration and Human Rights (OMHR), SEA-EU.

Zhao har vært medlem av den nasjonale komiteen for kjønnsbalanse og mangfold i forskning (KIF) oppnevnt av Kunnskapsdepartementet (2022–2025) og er nå varamedlem i KIF-komiteen (2026–2029).

Flerkulturelt og internasjonalt sosialt arbeid

Analyse av (u)likheter: Kjønn, klasse og etniske relasjoner

Samfunnsanalyse

Transnasjonalt perspektiv i sosialt arbeid

Feministiske og postkoloniale teorier

Nationism, nationhood, whiteness, and migration-related diversity
Feminist & postcolonial theories, and gender & race
Migration, gender and health
Aging, care and family in the context of migration
Transnationalism and international society work

2026

Making Cross-Cultural Collaboration a Reality for Students and Teachers: The Power of Blended Intensive Programmes 2026 European Education : Issues and Studies - Jonathan Quetzal Tritter, Guro Wisth Øydgard, Yan Zhao, Vesa Nuorva, Pirjo Forss-Pennanen, Cathia Coekaerts, Eelke Pruim, Jildau de Haan, Ingunn Skjesol

2025

Rethinking social work education in the context of Nordic welfare state: A collaborative perspective 2025 Nordic Social Work Research - Catrine Torbjørnsen Halås, Yan Zhao

A Tale of Solidarity? Exploring Sino-Nordic Gender Studies Network 2025 MATTER: Journal of New Materialist Research - Xin Liu, Dušica Ristivojević, Yan Zhao

2024

Empowering Agency: Enhancing Health Literacy Among Migrant Women Through Health Parties: A Case Study Towards Sustainable Good Health and Well-being: The Role of Health Literacy 2024 - Marianne Hedlund, Yan Zhao, Trude Karine Olaug Gjernes

Re/Presentations of Migrant Integration Discourses in Northern Norway 2024 - Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag, Yan Zhao, Marit Anne Aure

Frictions between familism and neoliberalism: exploring the intergenerational ambivalence narratives of migrant older parents in China 2024 Journal of Family Studies - Yan Zhao

2023

‘Where is the social work?’ Discovering and learning social work across Chinese and Norwegian contexts: A transcontextual perspective 2023 International Social Work - Yan Zhao

2022

Fra kontekstuelt perspektiv til transkontekstuell reflektivitet. Studenters erfaring med internasjonal utveksling Sammenhenger i sosialt arbeid 2022 - Yan Zhao

Shaping transnational learning positions and understanding social work in context–students’ experiences of a short-term exchange program 2022 Social Work Education - Yan Zhao, Hilde Berit Moen

2021

The art of not-knowing: Valuing diversity and intercultural competences in international social work education 2021 International Social Work - K. R. Anish, Stefan Borrmann, Ngan Nguyen-Meyer, Yan Zhao, Hilde Berit Moen, Weihua Liu

The Mobility of the Elderly and Family-Based Care: A Case Study of Chinese Migrant (Grand)Parents Migration to and from Welfare States: Lived Experiences of the Welfare–Migration Nexus in a Globalised World 2021 - Yan Zhao, Yu Huang

2020

Exploring participation and interaction in a bottom-up health promotion program for migrant women in Norway 2020 Qualitative Health Research - Yan Zhao, Trude Karine Olaug Gjernes, Marianne Hedlund

2019

Kinned to be Norwegian: transnational adoptees' positioning in relation to whiteness and the negotiation of nationhood 2019 Nations and Nationalism - Yan Zhao

2018

Migrating (grand)parents, intergenerational relationships and neo-familism in China 2018 Journal of Comparative Social Work - Yan Zhao, Yu Huang

Kommunikasjon, identitetsarbeid og interseksjonalitet Faglig kommunikasjon i praksis 2018 - Yan Zhao

2017

(Un)doing Gender Equality in China (Chapter 4) Gender Equality in a Global Perspective 2017 - Yan Zhao

2015

Exploring the interactive space of the ‘outsider within’: Practising feminist situated knowledge in studying transnational adoption 2015 The European Journal of Women's Studies - Yan Zhao

2013

Intersectionality, the Production of Difference and Norwegian Transnational Adoptees' Identity Work 2013 NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research - Yan Zhao

2012

Negotiating differences : transnational adoption, norwegianness and identity work 2012 - Yan Zhao

2025

Er det rom for å lære kollaborative tilnærminger i dagens individualistiske samfunn? - utfordringer og muligheter for praksisstudier. 2025 Nasjonal praksiskonferanse for sosialarbeiderutdanningene 2025 - Catrine Torbjørnsen Halås, Yan Zhao

«Health Party» - Engaging communities in health promotion among migrant women in North Norway 2025 Offentlig arrangement ifm. international day for elimination of violence against women - Yan Zhao

Etnisk mangfold – hva vet vi, og hva gjøres med det i norsk akademia? 2025 nasjonale konferansen «Medvind eller motvind? Likestilling, inkludering og mangfold i akademia i 2025» - Yan Zhao

Mangfold og internasjonalisering, arbeidsinkludering og karriereutvikling – erfaringer fra Nord universitet 2025 Regionalt fagverksted om likestilling og mangfoldsarbeid - Yan Zhao

“Securitization” and the challenges to equality, diversity and inclusion in the Norwegian Academia. 2025 National network conference “The visible invisibles? Being a minority background academic in Norway - Yan Zhao

Youth and Family in China: Perspectives from research on intergenerational relationship in the context of aging, migration and welfare 2025 Chinese Youth in a Divided World - Yan Zhao

Rethinking social work education in the context of Nordic welfare state: A collaborative perspectiv 2025 European Conference on Social Work Education: Social Connectedness – Contemporary Challenges and Opportunities - Yan Zhao, Catrine Torbjørnsen Halås

Ambivalences and uncertainties of old age care in the transnational space of care – Exploring the narratives of Chinese migrant older parents with a life-course perspective. 2025 Symposium on Precarities and Temporalities in Migratory Contexts - Yan Zhao

Rethinking social work in changing times – exploring the temporality of social work 2025 Nordic Social Work Research - Hanne Thommesen, Øystein Henriksen, Yan Zhao

2024

An invitation to engage: Decoloniality, structural and critical social work and their potentials for an emancipatory social work pedagogy. 2024 FORSA Conference 2024 - Padmaja Barua, Ariana Guilherme Fernandes, Yan Zhao, Sarah Khasalamwa-Mwandha, Erika Gubrium

Migrant Organizations as Arenas and Actors of Homemaking: Conceptualizing Integration from Below 2024 ‘Being SEA-EU’ Conference - Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag, Yan Zhao

Aging and well-being in the transnational space of care - Exploring the narratives of Chinese migrant parents 2024 Seminar serie 2023/24 of research network GNARC - Yan Zhao

Har akademia fått fripass i arbeidet mot rasisme? 2024 - Ronald Mayora Synnes, Yan Zhao

2023

Hvor rik må man være for å få barn? 2023 - Ann-Torill Tørrisplass, Hanne Thommesen, Yan Zhao

Grønn integreringspraksis i sosialt arbeid 2023 - Yan Zhao, Ingeborg Tangeraas

Meaning of embodied learning in short-term student exchange: Implementing transcontexual learning in social work education 2023 SOCIAL WORK IN CHANGING TIMES – CHALLENGES AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES (Den nordiske FORSA-konferansen 2023) - Yan Zhao, Guro Wisth Øydgard

Må jobbe tverrfaglig for å kunne levere gode tjenester til befolkningen 2023 - Yan Zhao, Anne Deinboll, Tarjei Abelsen

2022

Migrating Older parents and the intergenerational care arrangement among Chinese families abroad 2022 The 12th APRU Population Ageing Virtual Conference 2022 - Yan Zhao

Integrering "Har vi ikke familie å prioritere?" 2022 - Yan Zhao

2021

Migrating eldre parents and the intergenerational care arrangement among chinese families abroad 2021 7th Sino-Nordic Women and Gender Research Conference - Yan Zhao, Yu Huang

2019

"Shaping transnational learning positions and understanding social work in context" 2019 4th International Symposium on Global Social Work - Hilde Berit Moen, Yan Zhao

Welfare State and Feminist Transnational Knowledge Production, in Savinetti, N. (ed.) Gendered Dimensions of Welfare in China and the Nordic Region.Feminist transformations, visions and recommendations. NIAS – Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Report. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3228016 2019 - Xin Liu, Leppänen Katarina, Oinas Elina, Yan Zhao, Yu Lily, Trude Sundberg

Health Party – en metode for å fremme helsekompetanse for kvinner med innvandringsbakgrunn 2019 Nasjonal konferanse om helsekompetanse - Yan Zhao

Looking through Western/Eastern eyes – towards a transnational knowledge position in feminist scholarship 2019 NORA conference - Boder regimes, Territorial discourses & Feminist Politics, May 22-24, University of Iceland. - Yan Zhao, Marie Lovrod

2018

Video comments on social science studies on race, as contribution to the exhibition FOLK – From race types to DNA sequences 2018 - Yan Zhao

Becoming a Norwegian Patient: “Health Parties” for migrant and ethnic minority women 2018 The 17th biennial conference of European Society for Health and Medical Sociology: Old Tensions, Emerging Paradoxes in Health: rights, knowledge, and trust. - Yan Zhao, Trude Karine Olaug Gjernes, Marianne Hedlund

2017

Niqab eller ikke niqab? 2017 - Tanja Ellingsen, Gry Agnete Alsos, Yan Zhao, Johanne Hansen Kobberstad, Astri Dankertsen, Tone Gunn Stene Kristiansen, Elisabet Carine Ljunggren, Bishnu Maya Adhikari, Ann-Torill Tørrisplass

Health party and the cultural translation of health information and knowledge 2017 The 10th SANORD conference: The role of universities in research and technology to improve the livelihoods in Southern Africa. - Yan Zhao

Stay or Go back: Social Inclusion and Support of Chinese migrating parents 2017 The 6th Sino-Nordic gender and Women’s studies conference: Age, Agency and Ambiguity - Yu Huang, Yan Zhao

Helseparty som konsept for tilrettelagt informasjon om helse og helsetjenester 2017 The Annual National Dialog Conference on Equitable Health and Care Service to the Migrant Population - Yan Zhao, Salamatu Winningah

Helseparty fra konsept til praksis Rapport av følgeforskning på kvinnenettverket Noors pilotprosjekt «Kvinnehelse i Nordland - empowerment gjennom helsefremmende allmenndannelse» 2017 - Yan Zhao

2016

Book review: Constructing Transnational and Transracial Identity. Adoption and Belonging in Sweden, Norway and Denmark (by Sigalit Ben-Zion) 2016 NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research - Yan Zhao

2015

Utenlandsadopsjon og norskhet 2015 Workshop Forhandler vi om norskhet? Et seminar om nasjonal identitet og felleskap - Yan Zhao

Visible Difference – Racialization, Biologism and International Adoption 2015 Norwegian National Conference in Gender Studies: Kjønnsforskning Nå - Yan Zhao, Anne-Jorunn Berg

2014

Editorial: Celebrating the multiplicity of social work : an invitation to a translation practice 2014 Journal of Comparative Social Work - Yan Zhao

En av oss 2014 Adopsjonsforum - Yan Zhao, Mia Gill Kristiansen

2013

Book Review: Social Work and Social Development Perspectives from India and the United States 2013 Journal of Comparative Social Work - Yan Zhao