Yu Wang is a Ph.D. student in the Urban Planning and Policy Development Program at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. Her research agenda focuses broadly on the impact of public policy interventions on people’s life chances and experiences. She is especially interested in the discourses on migration and the lived experiences of immigrants in the urban environment. She received her bachelor’s degree in Urban-Rural Planning from Wuhan University and an M.Sc in Regional Science from Cornell University.