Mònica Ginés Blasi

Barbro Klein Fellow, SCAS.
Postdoctoral Researcher, Institut d’Asie Orientale, ENS de Lyon

Mònica Ginés Blasi is a labour historian specialised in Chinese global labour migration and debt bondage
in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her research focuses on the international networks that
operated Chinese indentured labour migration and child and women trafficking in treaty-port China and
beyond. She is particularly interested in the role of intermediaries and the invisibilization of people, know-
ledge and ideas in history and historiography. She has carried out research as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institut d’Asie Orientale (IAO), ENS de Lyon (2022–2024)
and has received numerous research grants, such as a Heinz Heinen Kolleg Postdoctoral Fellowship at
the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS), a Gerda Henkel Foundation Scholarship
(2019–2021), and a Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2017–2019).

She is currently working on two monographs on Chinese indenture and labour migration to Latin America
and Southeast Asia. Among her recent publications, she has edited a volume on invisibilization and con-
cealment in Asian history and historiography (De Gruyter) and delved into specific case studies on the
trafficking of girls and Chinese labour migrants to Cuba, Southeast Asia and treaty-port China in several
articles and edited book chapters.

At SCAS, Ginés Blasi’s research will deal with the global circulation of Chinese indentured labourers and
the role of intermediaries in the invisibilization and underrepresentation of victims of human trade.

This information is accurate as of the academic year 2024-25.