Biography:

M. Giovanna Merli is Professor of Public Policy, Sociology and Global Health at Duke University where she is also the director of the Duke Population Research Institute. Her research straddles demography, social networks and health with recent work on the evaluation of innovative network-based sampling approaches to recruit samples of rare populations of immigrants.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on network dynamics and the well-being of Chinese immigrants

Abstract:

In this talk I will illustrate the application of a novel network sampling strategy used to recruit population-representative samples of Chinese immigrants in the US and France and present findings from three studies on the heterogeneous impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the well-being of Chinese immigrants and implications for their networks dynamics. These studies are co-authored with Ted Mouw (UNC), Allison Stolte (UCI), and Isabelle Attané and Yahan Chuang (INED, France)