Susanne Y.P. Choi - Migration in Post-Colonial Hong Kong

Since 1995, most mainland migrants to Hong Kong have been the wives or non-adult children of Hong Kong men of lower socio-economic status. The majority of immigrants are women, who throughout the past two decades have accounted for more than 60 per cent of immigration. The profile of immigrants has been changing and they are significantly more educated than was the case in the past. Despite the improvement in the educational level of mainland Chinese migrants since 1991, and their increased involvement in paid employment, migrants have continued to experience great difficulty integrating into Hong Kong society and anti-immigrant sentiment seems to have increased over the same period. This raises the question of how gender and socio-economic factors intersect with migration to influence the extent of migrants adaption to Hong Kong society and culture. The growing anti-China sentiment in Hong Kong also raises the question of how the integration of migrants into a destination society is influenced by the political context.

Examining the questions around migration into Hong Kong from a range of multidisciplinary perspectives, this book portrays a detailed image of a central issue in contemporary Hong Kong.

Susanne Y. P. Choi is Professor, Department of Sociology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Eric Fong is Professor, Department of Sociology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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Names: Choi, Susanne Y. P., editor. | Fong, Eric, 1960 editor.
Title: Migration in post-colonial Hong Kong / edited by Susanne Y.P. Choi and Eric Fong.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2017. |
Series: Routledge contemporary China series; 165 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016052238| ISBN 9781138205505 (hardback) |
ISBN 9781315466699 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Hong Kong (China)Emigration and immigration. | Migration, InternalChina. | WomenSocial conditionsChinaHong Kong. | Hong Kong (China)Social conditions.
Classification: LCC HC428.H6 M54 2017 | DDC 304.8/5125dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016052238

ISBN: 978-1-138-20550-5 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-46669-9 (ebk)

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Cheung, Francis is an associate professor at the Department of Applied Psychology, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. His research focuses on workplace emotional management. His research has been published extensively, including in Applied Psychology: Health and Well-being; International Psychogeriatrics; Journal of Happiness Studies; Journal of Business and Psychology.

Choi, Susanne Y. P. is professor at the Department of Sociology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her current research interests include gender, family, and migration. Her book Masculine Compromise: Migration, Family and Gender was published by University of California Press, and her articles appeared in journals such as the American Journal of Sociology.

Fong, Eric is professor at the Department of Sociology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a former president of the Canadian Population Society and the North America Chinese Sociologist Association, and former chair of the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association. Fong publishes widely on race and ethnic residential patterns and immigration.

Hua, Guo is a research associate of the Global China Research Programme (GCR), the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests are political participation and policy feedback mechanisms; domestic and international migration; and urbanisation, economic reform and social transformation in China. His most recent article appears in Social Science Research.

Li, Jing is an assistant professor at Department of Geography and Resource Management, Fellow at Center of Land Resource and Housing Policy, Institute of Future Cities, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Li, Si-ming is chair professor in the Department of Geography and director of the David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University. He has published extensively on migration and housing in Chinese societies.

Ngo, Hang-Yue (PhD, Chicago) is a professor at the Department of Management of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include gender and work, human resource management, careers, and organisational behaviour. He has published over 90 articles in academic journals.