{"id":4217,"date":"2021-12-14T20:36:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T01:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=4217"},"modified":"2026-04-28T10:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:40:16","slug":"lilly-neang","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/people\/lilly-neang\/","title":{"rendered":"Lilly Neang"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a Masters student in the Migration and Diaspora Studies program at Carleton University. As the daughter of Cambodian refugees, I have drawn inspiration from my family&#8217;s history and become involved in the migration field as an emerging scholar, private refugee sponsor, and volunteer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My research interests include oral histories of migration, immigrant entrepreneurship, and newcomer integration programming. My MA thesis combines these passions by examining immigrant culinary entrepreneurship and its impact on individuals&#8217; experiences of integration in Canada. On the same topic, I curate these stories on the <a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.immigreats.ca%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7CNadiyaIsmaeva%40cunet.carleton.ca%7C7d04421f34a249de00ae08de1316ad86%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C638969185309372128%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=%2FFcDKPVUtZfecgo%2BwVna1KxC5J8OiGC0MboUkk%2Fi5dg%3D&amp;reserved=0\">immigrEATS Food Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the last five years with LERRN, I have been involved in various knowledge mobilization projects, including editing the working paper publications, writing event reports, and contributing to LERRN&#8217;s newsletters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"publications\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publications:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/2025\/new-op-ed-responding-to-the-global-displacement-crisis-a-role-for-canadian-universities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Op-Ed: Responding to the Global Displacement Crisis \u2014 A Role for Canadian Universities?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/2022\/jrs-analysis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Who has published in the Journal of Refugee Studies?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/2024\/event-report-book-launch-forced-migration-in-to-canada-from-colonization-to-refugee-resettlement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Event Report: Forced Migration in\/to Canada<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/2024\/event-report-madeline-garlick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Event Report: Discussion with UNHCR\u2019s Madeline Garlick<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/2025\/event-report-the-politics-of-refugee-policy-in-the-global-south\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Event Report: The Politics of Refugee Policy in the Global South<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11217,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Lilly","cu_people_last_name":"Neang","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[64,231,328,368,421,504],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-4217","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-secretariat","cu_people_type-secretariat-staff-2021-2022","cu_people_type-secretariat-staff-2022-2023","cu_people_type-secretariat-staff-2023-2024","cu_people_type-secretariat-staff-2024-2025","cu_people_type-secretariat-staff-2025-2026"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Editor-in-Chief & Knowledge Mobilization Officer","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"lillyneang@cmail.carleton.ca ","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/4217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/4217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11222,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/4217\/revisions\/11222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=4217"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=4217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}