Meredith Oyen is an associate professor of history and an affiliate of the Asian Studies Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her research explores how immigration, deportation, refugee policy, and transnational networks have shaped China’s relationship with the world, especially U.S.-China relations. Her current research on refugees in China after the Second World War has been supported by a research fellowship from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Oyen has published articles in Diplomatic History, the Journal of Cold War Studies, Modern Asian Studies, and the Journal of American Ethnic History, as well as peer reviewed chapters in Overcoming Empire in Post-Imperial East Asia (Bloomsbury), and Statelessness After Arendt: European Refugees in China and the Pacific during the Second World War (Manchester University Press). Her first book, The Diplomacy of Migration: Transnational Lives and the Making of U.S.-Chinese Relations in the Cold War, was published in 2015 by Cornell University Press.

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