Zih-Lun Huang is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography and the Environment at Syracuse University. His research examines temporary migration, labor, and urban space, focusing on Taiwanese migrant workers in the global online gambling industry. Drawing on multisited fieldwork and digital ethnography, he shows how workers’ precarious, time-limited lives produce what he theorizes as temporary digital enclaves and recursive linguistic enclosure. Before turning to the Philippines, he studied land redevelopment and displacement in Taichung City, Taiwan. He has published in journals such as Population, Space and Place, Asia-Pacific Research Forum, Journal of Geographical Science, Changhua Review, and City and Planning. Zih-Lun also holds a Ph.D. from National Taiwan University, and He was a Fulbright Visiting Student Researcher at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley (2022-2023).
Publications (Selected)
- Zih-Lun Huang. (2026). “Temporary Digital Enclaves: Temporary linguistic online gambling workers and a collaborative digital community in the Philippines.” Population, Space, and Place.
- Zih-Lun Huang. (2023). “Online Gambling Heartland: The Online Gambling Industrial Enclave and Urban Infrastructure in Metro Manila, the Philippines,” Asia-Pacific Research Forum, 72: 57-88.
- Zih-Lun Huang (2022). Book Review: Digital Nomads: In Search of Freedom, Community, and Meaningful Work in the New Economy. Asia-Pacific Research Forum. 71: 97-103.
- Zih-Lun Huang, Chu, Ling-I, Hsu, Jinn-Yuh. (2022). “Critique of urbanization: Neil Brenner’s planetary urbanization and the survival of capitalism,” Journal of Geographical Science, 102: 37-53.
- Zih-Lun Huang. (2021). “Toward post-colonial urbanism: Approach of post-colonial urbanism and its application in the Global South,” Journal of Geographical Science, 100: 101-119. DOI: 10.6161/jgs.202112_(100).0005 [Originally in Chinese, The top of journal articles in Taiwan.]
- Zih-Lun Huang. (2020). “Walking Tours and Historic Space as Cultural Politics in Changhua County,” Changhua Review, 23: 3-21. [Originally in Chinese]
