Rosa Yi
យី រ៉ូហ្សា

Rosa YI is a faculty member in the School of Public Policy at the National University of Management (NUM) and a deputy director of its ASEAN Economic Research Institute. He holds a BA in Education from the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP), Cambodia and MA in International Relations (International Development and Policy Studies) from Waseda University, Japan. He received his PhD in human geography at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where he was an awardee of the NUS–Harvard-Yenching Institute Joint PhD scholarship. His dissertation research, entitled “Political ecologies of agrarian commodification and labor migration in Cambodia,” examined how capitalist development of agriculture transforms agrarian socio-natural landscapes, shapes rural livelihood trajectories, and produces different geographies of labor migration. Using a multi-sited ethnographic approach, the research explored, through the experiences of smallholder farmers, how commodity production and labor migration under contemporary capitalism intersect and transform socio-natural relations.