2026 Brenda S. A. Yeoh: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	78	440	379	1	1	397	20016

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Singapore Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Singapore Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Singapore Leader Award

Overview

Brenda S. A. Yeoh is affiliated with the National University of Singapore in Singapore. Their research spans the fields of Social Sciences, with a primary focus on Sociology and Political Science, Demography, General Health Professions, Political Science and International Relations, and Education.

The main topics covered by Brenda S. A. Yeoh's research include:

Migration and Labor Dynamics
Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
Socioeconomic Development in Asia
Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
Employment and Welfare Studies

The scientist has contributed to multiple recent academic papers, including:

"Social construction of skill: an analytical approach toward the question of skill in cross-border labour mobilities" (2020), published in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
"Migration and new racism beyond colour and the 'West': co-ethnicity, intersectionality and postcoloniality" (2022), published in Ethnic and Racial Studies
"Studying multinational migrations, speaking back to migration theory" (2020), published in Global Networks
"Doing Family in 'Times of Migration': Care Temporalities and Gender Politics in Southeast Asia" (2020), published in Annals of the American Association of Geographers
"Pathological (Im)mobilities: managing risk in a time of pandemics" (2020), published in Mobilities

Brenda S. A. Yeoh frequently publishes in the following venues:

Ethnic and Racial Studies (7 publications)
Asian Population Studies (6 publications)
American Behavioral Scientist (4 publications)
Geoforum (4 publications)
Geographical Research (3 publications)

The scientist's book publications include:

"Migrant Workers in Singapore" (2022), published by World Scientific

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Brenda S. A. Yeoh include:

Theodora Lam (20 joint publications)
Kellynn Wee (11 joint publications)
Shirlena Huang (10 joint publications)
Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho (9 joint publications)
Kristel Anne Acedera (9 joint publications)

Best Publications

Negotiating Public Space: Strategies and Styles of Migrant Female Domestic Workers in Singapore

Brenda S. A. Yeoh;Shirlena Huang

484
Citations
Opening the Black Box of Migration : Brokers, the Organization of Transnational Mobility and the Changing Political Economy in Asia

Johan Lindquist;Biao Xiang;Brenda S. A. Yeoh

483
Citations
Contesting Space in Colonial Singapore

Brenda S.A. Yeoh

477
Citations
When the light of the home is abroad: unskilled female migration and the Filipino family.

Maruja Milagros B. Asis;Shirlena Huang;Brenda S.A. Yeoh

441
Citations
Transnationalizing the ‘Asian’ family: imaginaries, intimacies and strategic intents

Brenda S. A. Yeoh;Shirlena Huang;Theodora Lam

433
Citations
Transnational families and their children's education: China's ‘study mothers’ in Singapore

Shirlena Huang;Brenda S. A. Yeoh

392
Citations
The Global Cultural City? Spatial Imagineering and Politics in the (Multi)cultural Marketplaces of South-east Asia

Brenda S. A. Yeoh

383
Citations
Migrant female domestic workers: debating the economic, social and political impacts in Singapore.

Brenda S.A. Yeoh;Shirlena Huang;Joaquin Gonzalez

370
Citations
Singapore: A Developmental City State

Martin Perry;Lily Kong;Brenda S. A. Yeoh

352
Citations
Breadwinning wives and "left-behind" husbands: Men and masculinities in the Vietnamese transnational family

La Hoang;Bsa Yeoh

344
Citations
Transnational (Counter) Topographies

Geraldine Pratt;Brenda Yeoh

333
Citations
Gender and migration

Katie Willis;Brenda S. A. Yeoh

329
Citations
The Politics of Landscapes in Singapore: Constructions of "Nation"

Lily Kong;Brenda S. A. Yeoh

320
Citations
BIFURCATED LABOUR: THE UNEQUAL INCORPORATION OF TRANSMIGRANTS IN SINGAPORE

Brenda S.A. Yeoh

318
Citations
Cosmopolitanism and its Exclusions in Singapore

Brenda S. A. Yeoh

310
Citations
Singaporean and British transmigrants in China and the cultural politics of ‘contact zones’

Brenda S. A. Yeoh;Katie Willis

298
Citations
Contesting Space in Colonial Singapore: Power Relations and the Urban Built Environment

Brenda S.A. Yeoh

297
Citations
Remaking local heritage for tourism.

Peggy Teo;Brenda S.A. Yeoh

263
Citations
Contesting space : power relations and the urban built environment in colonial Singapore

Brenda S. A. Yeoh

262
Citations
Bringing the ‘left behind’ back into view in Asia: a framework for understanding the ‘migration–left behind nexus’

Mika Toyota;Brenda S. A. Yeoh;Liem Nguyen

257
Citations
Globalising Singapore: Debating Transnational Flows in the City

Brenda S. A. Yeoh;T.C. Chang

253
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Lily Kong Singapore Management University

Paul Boyle Swansea University

Wolfgang Lutz University of Trier

Adrian Sleigh Australian National University

David Chan Singapore Management University

Keywan Riahi International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Marcia C. Castro Harvard University

Sergei Scherbov International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Jonathan Rigg University of Bristol

External Links

Personal website of Brenda S. A. Yeoh Google Scholar page

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