Penn Ip received her BA degree in Humanities at Hong Kong Baptist University (Hong Kong, 2004), her MA degree in Intercultural Studies at Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, 2005), and her MA degree in Cultural Analysis at University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands, 2012). Now she is a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam and is writing her thesis within the HERA SINGLE project. Central to her project is the mediation, construction and the composition of working class, single migrant women’s “home” in China.