Jing Hao Liong is a PhD candidate in the Department of Cultural Anthropology and von der Heyden Fellow at Duke University. Broadly speaking, his research interests lie at the intersection of migration studies, the anthropology of labor, and global governance. He is interested in the shifting dynamics of temporary labor migration in the context of the global proliferation of international labor standards and corporate compliance regimes. Focusing on the politics and practices of transnational labor brokerage, his dissertation examines the implementation of “ethical recruitment” in Malaysia as an imagined solution to forced labor and modern slavery in both the labor recruitment process and various workplace settings. A part of this ongoing research has been published in the Business and Human Rights Journal and in a business case study report on the state of ethical recruitment in Malaysia. At Duke, he has taught the Department of Cultural Anthropology’s year-long senior thesis seminar and served as a site coordinator for summer programs in Cape Town, South Africa and Oxford University. Jing holds an MA in China Studies from the Yenching Academy of Peking University and a BA in Anthropology and Economics-Political Science from Columbia University.
