This week we're kicking off Season 4 with part 1 of a special 2-part series focusing on a pair of international migrants who have written a study on how the initial outbreak of COVID-19 in China effected foreign nationals living there. The lead researcher, Chris Barnhart, was a high school teacher in Florida who'd been laid off during a round of budget cuts and was as surprised as anyone to find himself heading to China months later to be the first foreign professor at a university in Guangdong province. His experience there has been a revelation to him, and his empathy and desire to check in on fellow foreigners during the initial stages of the outbreak led him to want to quantify the resilience that he saw in the people around him. When he couldn't find evidence of anyone else studying expats in China during this time he took it on himself to gather the data... and what he found was... well, let's let him explain how things went.
Read the summary of Chis and Jen's findings on our blog, here. You can contact him with questions about his study via e-mail at c.r.barnhart@outlook.com, or you can follow him on LinkedIn here. Get in touch with comments, suggestions or interview recommendations:#024: The Challenges for Strong Women Overseas | Kira Sirois
#023: Doing Anything- Except Not Being Yourself | Richard Robinson
#022: Beating Typhoid & Overcoming the American Dream | Josh Gardner
#021: Questions from Those Left Behind | Virginia Johnson
#020: "What's That Smell?" | Alisa Rutherford-Fortunati II
#019: Studying TCKs As A TCA | Tanya Crossman
#018: Reconciling "Expat" vs. "Migrant" After Taking the Leap | Katie Capstick
#017: "This Wasn't A Choice She Made": Raising A Daughter Overseas | Sarah Peel
#016: Falling In Love While Finding Your Way | Cara Gleeson & Liam Cunningham
#015: 99 Years of Trailblazing By Beijing's Oldest Expat | Eleanor Liu
#011: Dancing with Dragons & Explaining China | Malgo Blonska
#014: Growing Up As A TCK & Developing 'Bordered Dinners' | Ragini Kashyap
#013: New Motherhood Overseas | Angela Kalberg
#012: Documenting Her 'Chrysalis' | Chrislyn Choo
#010: Living with Loss Overseas | Joana Savedra
#009: From Small-town Siberia to Activism In Beijing | Mariya Kuznetsova
#008: Starting A Business In Your Parents' Homeland | Christiana Zhu
#007: From Working In Water to Life In the Desert | Jared Dillet
#006: Forging Your Own Identity & Socially Responsible Pizza | Kerry Lin
#005: Building A Career & 'Marketing for Creatives' | Marina Barayeva
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