A Permanent Research Fellow at The French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and faculty member at the CERMES3 (Research Centre, Medicine, Science, Health, Mental Health and Society), I hold a PhD in Sociology from the École Normale Supérieure in Paris (2014).
Since 2009, I have been working on Chinese immigration in France, at first about mental suffering and living conditions of Chinese migrants and their children, then through various analytic angles: family and intergenerational relationships, political participation, transnationalism. My research interests are in the sociology of international migration, sociology of health and mental health, sociology of the Chinese world (China and its diasporas). Cf. published books and scientific articles : https://cnrs.academia.edu/SimengWang
My current work is built around two poles, the first at the intersection of Asian migration and health in a globalised world; the second on the experiences of racism and discrimination among Asian origin elites in France. Since January 2020, I have been conducting a new empirical survey on Chinese migration in France facing Covid-19, in the frame of the MigraChiCovid Project, funded by the French National Research Agency.
Currently I coordinate the research network on East and South-East Asian Migrations in France (http://www.migrations-asiatiques-en-france.cnrs.fr/) and colead the research project granted by the City of Paris (2018-2021) “Chinese of France: identifications and identities in transition”.
I host at the French School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, also known as EHESS) two seminars “Contemporary China and social sciences” and “Migrations and health”. I am also an elected member of the executive committee of the French Sociology Association since 2017.