SMU Assistant Professor of Political Science Song Jiyoung was featured for her work on migration management, a multidisciplinary field that helps vulnerable migrants and mobile populations. Assistant Prof Song, who has a PhD in politics, human rights and migration, is carrying out research on Burmese Karen refugees who are now living in camps along the Thai-Burma border. She is now working on a paper about how voluntary repatriation may be perceived as forced migration from the refugee perspective, with the hopes that her findings will be fed back to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the wider international community. She is also collaborating with SMU Associate Professor of Information Systems Cheng Shih-Fen and applied physicist Professor Cheong Siew Ann from NTU to develop agent-based models of migration, where people’s mobility is simulated on a computer programme. Through these projects, Assistant Prof Song aims to support policy makers in helping vulnerable migrants and mobile populations.