Eric Florence

Eric Florence (BE) is visiting language professor for Chinese at the College of Europe. He obtained a PhD in political and social sciences at the University of Liège. He also graduated with a Master's degree in Chinese Language and Civilisation from the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) in Paris, France, and holds a certificate in Chinese history from the University of Shandong, China, as well as a postgraduate diploma in Political Science and International Relations from the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.

Eric Florence is currently researcher at the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM) at the University of Liège, where he focuses on Chinese internal migration. During the last seven years he has taken part in several research projects on international migration. In addition, he teaches Chinese language at the Liège Confucius Institute and in the Chinese-English section of the Higher Institute of Translators and Interpreters (ISTI) in Brussels as well as a course on Chinese contemporary society in the Master's programme in European Integration and International Relations at the University of Liège.

He is the author of a number of scientific publications in the field of migration. His most recent article is “Migrant workers in the Pearl River Delta: Discourse and Narratives about Work as Sites of Struggle”, Critical Asian Studies, 39:1, 2007, pp. 121-150.