Choi / Fong Migration in Post-Colonial Hong Kong

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-315-46668-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 178 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Contemporary China Series

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% 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 combines quantitative and qualitative data to portray a detailed image of contemporary Hong Kong.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Choi, Susanne Y.P.

Fong, Eric

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Migration and Its Discontents in Post-Colonial Hong Kong (Susanne Y.P. Choi and Eric Fong)

2. Immigration, Gender and the Economic Status of Hong Kong Families (Yu-ying Tong and Kwok-fai Ting)

3. Socio-geographic Differentiation of Permanent Residents and New Immigrants from Mainland China (Si-ming Li and Hao Pu)

4. Money and Children: Marital Conflict of Female Marriage Migrants in Hong Kong (Susanne Y.P. Choi and Guo Hua)

5. The Effects of Socio-cultural Adaptation and Perceived Discrimination on the Wellbeing of Immigrant Workers in Hong Kong (Hang-yue Ngo)

6. A Comparison of Occupational Wellbeing in Chinese Migrant and Local Workers (Francis Cheung)

7. Learning to be Citizens: The Participation of Mainland Chinese Migrants in the Civic Life of Hong Kong (Guo Hua and Eric Fong)

8. ‘Immigrants Will Not Vote for Democrats’: Do They Jump or are They Pushed? (Ray Yep)

Über Autor(innen)

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

Eric Fong is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto