Mònica Ginés Blasi

BA in East Asian Studies (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and UPF) and BA in History of Art, UB; Master in Arts at Leiden Universiteit, and a PhD History of Art, Universitat de Barcelona.

Mònica Ginés-Blasi is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Researcher at the Institut d’Asie Orientale (IAO) of the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Lyon (2022-24). She has recently enjoyed a Henz Heinen Kolleg Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies.

Her research focuses on the international networks operating Chinese indentured labour migration and the trafficking of children and women from treaty-port China to the Atlantic and to Southeast Asia. She has received several research grants to delve into this subject, such as a Gerda Henkel Foundation Scholarship (2019-2021) and a Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2017-2019). She has broad experience in international archival research, and has performed research as a visiting scholar at the Institute of History of Academia Sinica (Taipei), at Hong Kong University and at the Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC-CCHS) in Madrid. She has published various journal articles on the trade in Chinese migrants to Spanish colonies and is currently preparing two monographs.