Yi-ching Huang is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Maryland. Her research focuses on migration, class inequality, and transnational mobility, with particular attention to Asian and Latino immigrant families and Taiwanese high-skilled migrants in the technology industry.

Her work examines how migration regimes, global industrial restructuring, and class positions shape family strategies, parenting practices, and mobility decisions. One line of her research investigates how middle-class Asian and Latino immigrant parents mobilize ethnic capital in educational and residential choices in the DMV area, using qualitative interviews to analyze how parenting strategies are shaped by co-ethnic communities class arrangement. Another strand of her research explores the migration and return mobility of Taiwanese technology professionals, analyzing how states' migration policy, global value chains, and geopolitics restructure skilled labor migration and family life across national contexts.