Research Interests

Research interests include transnational migration, transnational families, AI and cultural diversity, digital culture, and intercultural communication in both professional and social contexts.

Habilitation Preparation

Intercultural Studies with a focus on migration, intercultural family education, and professional contexts.

Academic Career

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Habilitation Candidate, and Lecturer Helmut Schmidt University, Chair of Intercultural and Comparative Education Helmut Schmidt University, Chair of Vocational and Corporate Education

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Project Manager in the Research Project –
  “Crowdwork and Crowdworkers Before, During, and After Vocational Training – Competence/Subjectivation Effects, Individual Professionalism, and Learning-Oriented Platform Design” Project I
  Helmut Schmidt University, Chair of Vocational and Corporate Education

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Habilitation Candidate in the DFG Project “DyFam”
  Transformation and Dynamics of Intergenerational Family Relationships in the Context of Flight and Asylum
  University of Kassel, Department of Socialization, Chair of Migration and Intercultural Education

• Lecturer
  University of Kassel, Department of Socialization, Chair of Migration and Intercultural Education

• Associate Academic
  University College London (UCL), Department of Culture, Media and Communication.

• Visiting Scholar Institute for Intercultural and International Comparative Education, University of Hamburg.

Academic Qualifications

• Ph.D., Department of Culture, Media and Communication, University College London (UCL), UK
• M.A. in Management, York Management School, University of York, UK
• M.A. in Educational Studies, Department of Education, University of York, UK
• B.A. in Management, University of Leeds, UK

Recent Publications:

Li-Gottwald, J. (forthcoming). Navigating Research on Digital Platform Work Through an Intercultural Lens. In Büchter et al. (Eds.), In Subjekte, Wissen und Lernen in der plattformbasierten Arbeit am Beispiel von Crowdwork – Forschungszugänge und Forschungsbefunde. Opladen: Budrich Verlag. (Peer-reviewed).

Li-Gottwald, J. (2025). A transnational digital exploration the trans-positioning of culture among youth: A study of three teens with mixed Chinese and German backgrounds in transnational families. Journal of Childhood and Adolescence Research (Peer-reviewed).

Li-Gottwald, J. (2024). Transnational intergenerational relationships and doing transcultural family through Mandarin learning: An ethnographic glance at Chinese dynamics in four intercultural contexts in Germany. Journal of Frontier Sociology (Peer-reviewed).

Li-Gottwald, J., Westphal, M., Aden, S., & Korn, F. (2024). Family generational relations and transnationality in the context of refuge and asylum – A methodological reflection. In C. Bollig & S. Groß (Eds.), Doing and making family in, with, and through education and social work (pp. 245-258). Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag. (Peer-reviewed)

Li-Gottwald, J. (2024). Review of Identity and belonging among Chinese Canadian youth: Racialized habitus in school, family, and media by Dan Cui. Journal of Bildung und Erziehung.

Westphal, M., Korn, F., Li-Gottwald, J., & Adam, S. (2024). Growing up transnationally – Transnational family practices and upbringing in the context of flight and migration. Journal of Families, Relationships and Societies (Peer-reviewed).

Schrooten, M., Li-Gottwald, J., Moretti, F., & Cost, R. (2024). Review of Handbook of transnational families around the world edited by Javiera Cienfuegos, Rosa Brandhorst, and Deborah Fahy Bryceson. European Journal of Social Work.

Li-Gottwald, J. (2023). The forming of space: Parents’ social assemblages in a Chinese complementary school in Germany. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 46(2), 470–484. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2023.2191968 (Peer-reviewed)

Li-Gottwald, J. (2023). Soziale nachhaltige Entwicklung – Ein Fall einer Migrantenselbstorganisation in Deutschland. In A. Alisch & M. Westphal (Eds.), Soziale Nachhaltigkeit in der Migrationsgesellschaft (pp. 214–230). Berlin: Budrich Academic Press. (Peer-reviewed)

Li-Gottwald, J. (2022). Chinese migrant parents and complementary schooling in Germany: A sociolinguistic ethnography. Berlin: Budrich Academic Press. (Monograph)

Li-Gottwald, J. (2020). The negotiation of Chinese migrant parents’ social relations and their social status (Doctoral dissertation, University College London). UCL Library Open Access. 

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Letzte Änderung: 19. August 2025