Mei-Hua Chen is Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Professor of the Department of Sociology at National Sun Yat-Sen University. She teaches Sociology of Gender, and Sociology of Sexuality. She has published articles on issues such as sex work, sexual migration across the Taiwan Strait in well-known journals both in Chinese and English. Her research interests include women’s sex work, and non-conforming intimacies in Taiwan. Recently her research has concentrated on migration and sexuality; she is particularly interested in queer migration involving transnational same-sex marriage.