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So Yung Choi

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ID166169
NAMESo Yung Choi
GIVEN NAMESSo Yung
FAMILY NAMEChoi
SIGNATURECHOI S Y
AFFILIATIONSChinese University of Hong Kong
ORCID0000-0003-3879-2915
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS46
TOTAL CITATIONS396
AUTHOR COUNT46
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX11
  • Comparative Framing From Below

    Open Access•So Yung Choi, Tangi Pui Chi Yip et al.•ARTICLE•British Journal of Sociology•2026

    As digital technologies become embedded in everyday life, interpersonal violence increasingly takes place in cyberspace. Existing studies have focused on how states, experts, and the media define what counts as cyber violence and abuse. Less attention has been paid to how ordinary people interpret and contest these definitions and how their interpretations are linked to broader contexts. Drawing on focus group discussions among university student…

  • Racial/Ethnic Differences in Gestational Diabetes and Its Association with Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes among Women in Hawai‘i

    Open Access•Ingrid Chern, So Yung Choi et al.•ARTICLE•Maternal and Child Health Journal•2025

  • Three Dimensions of Care and Their Relationships With Caring, Inclusive, and Toxic Masculinity

    Open Access•So Yung Choi, Alicia M Barry•ARTICLE•Journal of Family Theory & Review•2025•References: 18

    Are men becoming more caring? Is masculinity evolving to align with the ethics and principles of care? Drawing on literature on care work, the ethics of care, and the four principles of bioethics, we identify three dimensions of care: as work, as ethical frameworks emphasizing empathy and compassion, and as moral principles such as non‐maleficence (i.e., do no harm). We then examine how these dimensions intersect with shifts in masculinity and me…

  • Out-of-Frame, Misframe, and Reframe

    Open Access•So Yung Choi, Tangi Puichi Yip et al.•ARTICLE•Sexuality Research and Social…•2025•References: 16

    Introduction In an era of digitalization, online sexual harassment (OSH) has become a pervasive global issue, yet remains poorly understood. OSH refers to a spectrum of uninvited and unwelcome sexual behaviors—including sexual comments and solicitation—that take place on digital platforms. Using the lens of frames and framing ambiguity, this study explores the challenges faced by victims in identifying OSH and considers factors influencing their …

  • Marriage Channels, Temporal Inequality, and Migration Decision-Making Agency

    Open Access•Hsin-Chieh Chang, So Yung Choi•ARTICLE•International Migration Review•2025•References: 39

    Recent scholarship has examined the multiple dimensions of structural and cultural inequalities that impact the well-being of intra-Asia marriage migrants in both sending and receiving countries. One missing mechanism that may shape varied patterns of pre- and post-migration inequalities — the different marriage channels that facilitate different types of encounters between prospective brides from emerging economies and prospective grooms from ad…

  • Gendered labor contentions in the platform economy

    Open Access•Wang Jing, So Yung Choi•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 8

    This research examines how state policies shape labor contentions in the platform economy in gendered ways. It analyzes collective actions organized by male food-delivery workers and female house-cleaning platform workers in China, where a paternalistic state stifles collective labor mobilization but enacts policies to increase protection against capitalist exploitation. In response, workers creatively, selectively, and flexibly mobilize gender r…

  • Reproductive Curation

    Open Access•Xiao-Han Cai, So Yung Choi•ARTICLE•Journal of Marriage and the Family•2025•References: 12

    Objective This paper introduces reproductive curation, the deliberate coordination of reproductive arrangements, as a theoretical framework for examining how legal, institutional, and interpersonal factors interact with technology in shaping reproductive decision‐making, based on interviews with 32 lesbian mothers and mothers‐to‐be in China. Background China does not recognize equal marriage or parental rights, nor does it provide access to assis…

  • Not coming out as affective care

    Open Access•So Yung Choi•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review•2025•Cited by: 5•References: 46

    Using the decision to not come out amongst a group of Chinese LGBTQ+ individuals as its basis, the present study explains how care about and care for parents' feelings is viewed by adult children as a key and distinct form of care that is central to the working and doing of intergenerational intimacy. The study critically engages with research on affect, emotion and care, the body of literature on the intimate turn in contemporary families, and t…

  • Gender digilantism and bystanders

    Open Access•So Yung Choi, Susanne Y P Choi et al.•ARTICLE•Chinese Journal of Communication•2024

    This study uses the concept of gender digilantism to examine the roles of bystanders in cyber intimate partner violence (IPV).Gender digilantism is defined as "the leverage of information and communication technologies by netizens to police perceived transgression of gender and sexual norms." It is a form of informal justice-seeking in which netizens take extrajudicial actions against a wide array of social infractions.Extant research documents h…

  • The Cultivation of Transnational Cultural Capital in Childhood

    Open Access•So Yung Choi, Susanne Y P Choi et al.•ARTICLE•Global Networks•2024•References: 33

    This study shows how class advantage is transferred to the next generation through parental strategies that cultivate their children's transnational cultural capital from an early age. It combines the concepts of cultural capital and concerted cultivation and adopts a novel methodology, examining parental aspirations (PAs) and strategies from the perspective of the children. The data are derived from the life stories of Chinese global multiple mi…

  • An intimacy field framework

    Open Access•See Pok Loa, So Yung Choi et al.•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review•2024•Cited by: 2•References: 38

    Using Bourdieu's field theory and extending the sexual field framework, we conceptualise intimacy as fields, that is, configurations of social relations underlying the doing of romantic and sexual relationships. Drawing on a comparative analysis of the intimate relationships of middle- and working-class gay men in Hong Kong, we show that intimacy fields were organised by class-based habitus and inequalities in capital. These factors resulted in c…

  • Bridging the Gap

    Open Access•Lindsey Ro, Samuel Eberlein et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Racial and Ethnic…•2024•References: 20

    Objective To enhance recruitment and participation rates of non-Hispanic Black (NHB) and Hispanic adult patients in a NIH-funded clinical trial studying an emerging health technology. Data Sources and Study Setting This study includes primary data collected in Los Angeles, California from November 2020 through November 2023. Study Design To improve the representation of NHB and Hispanic patients in a NIH-funded (NCT04409353) trial on virtual real…

  • Doing and undoing gender

    So Yung Choi•ARTICLE•Social movement studies•2023•Cited by: 3•References: 20

    Focusing on the anti-extradition bill movement in Hong Kong, this paper employs the concepts of doing and undoing gender to investigate the barriers that female frontline protesters encountered and the strategies they adopted. It shows that stereotypes linking high-risk activism and physical prowess with masculinity, the association of the frontline with high risks of arrest and injuries, and physical confrontation with the police meant that the …

  • Birth tourism and migrant children's agency

    So Yung Choi, Susanne Y P Choi et al.•ARTICLE•New Community•2022•Cited by: 6•References: 30

    The present study examines how, in the context of birth tourism, children cope with the tensions between migration, family strategy, poverty, and societal exclusionary practices directed against immigrants. The example of economically disadvantaged ‘double not’ children – that is, children born in Hong Kong to non-affluent mainland Chinese parents described as ‘birth tourists’ in post-handover Hong Kong – brings to the fore children’s agency in n…

  • Global Multiple Migration

    Open Access•So Yung Choi•ARTICLE•Sociology•2022•Cited by: 11•References: 30

    The present study examines how global multiple migration - a pattern of migration characterised by multiple changes of destination internationally in one's lifetime - becomes a strategy employed by highly educated, Chinese self-identified gay men to navigate social stigmatisation, negotiate family pressure, circumvent state oppression and achieve desired life goals. By examining the intersection between sexuality, migration and class, the present…

  • Couples' self-control and marital conflict

    Open Access•A K L Cheung, Tuen Yi Chiu et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science Research•2022•Cited by: 2•References: 56

  • Disparities in Potentially Preventable Emergency Department Visits for Children with Asthma among Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, and Whites in Hawai‘i

    Open Access•Olivia Uchima, Deborah A Taira et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2021

    The cost burdens of potentially preventable emergency department visits for pediatric asthma were estimated for Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, and Whites using Hawai'i statewide 2015-2016 data. The cost burden of the 3234 preventable emergency department visits over the study period was over $1.9 million. Native Hawaiians had the largest proportion (36.5%) of all preventable emergency department visits and accounted for the highest costs for…

  • Premarital Sexuality, Abortion, and Intergenerational Dynamics in China

    Open Access•Ruby Y S Lai, So Yung Choi et al.•ARTICLE•Modern China•2021•Cited by: 9•References: 33

    This article uses premarital abortion(s) as a window to examine diverse parental roles in adult unmarried daughters’ intimate lives in post-socialist China. It also addresses issues of premarital sex, premarital pregnancy, and the emergence of a dating culture. The article identifies four patterns of parent–adult daughter interactions during the decision-making process of premarital abortion: no recognizable parental role, referencing perceived p…

  • Migration, service work, and masculinity in the global South

    Open Access•So Yung Choi, Siran Li•ARTICLE•Gender Work and Organization•2020•Cited by: 6•References: 13

    Past research on service work and masculinity has focused on men in traditionally feminized occupations or men in celebrated male‐dominated occupations in the global North, thus neglecting the experiences of men in low status, male‐dominated, and supposedly “masculine” service occupations in the global South. This article attempts to fill the gap by illustrating the problematic connections between work and masculinity among rural‐to‐urban male mi…

  • The decoupling of legal and spatial migration of female marriage migrants

    Tuen Yi Chiu, So Yung Choi•ARTICLE•New Community•2020•Cited by: 12•References: 35

    The literature on cross-border marriages between women from the global south and men from the global north largely assumes patrilocality as a direct result of hypergamous marriage migration. There has been little research into the experiences of brides who relocate to their husband’s country to fulfil the roles of wife and mother but are not given citizenship rights or brides who do not relocate even after obtaining residency or citizenship in th…

  • When protests and daily life converge

    Open Access•So Yung Choi•ARTICLE•Critique of Anthropology•2020•Cited by: 20•References: 2

    Social scientists are prone to define social movements as something extraordinary, existing outside the mundane world of daily routines and lives. However, as the anti-extradition movement in Hong Kong has illustrated, protest and daily routines often overlap. This is due in part to the decentralisation of protest events geographically and the mobilisation of conventional life spaces and cultural repertoires as protest tactics. When protests beco…

  • Gender Irrelevance

    So Yung Choi, Susanne Y P Choi et al.•ARTICLE•Signs: Journal of Women in…•2020•Cited by: 8•References: 22

    Right-wing groups have generally been considered gender-conservative or, in some instances, sexist. Given this background, it is a puzzle why young people, particularly women with relatively liberal gender attitudes, support these groups. This article tries to answer this question by comparing men’s and women’s justifications for participation in nativist and antimigration political groups. It develops the concept of gender irrelevance, defined a…

  • A National Survey of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use for Treatment Among Asian-Americans

    Open Access•Rhea Faye D Felicilda‐Reynaldo, So Yung Choi et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Immigrant and Minority…•2019

  • Migration, masculinity, and family

    So Yung Choi•ARTICLE•New Community•2019•Cited by: 8•References: 47

    Previous studies of migration, family, and gender have shown that migration is not only an event that changes family life, the change itself is a gendered process. How migrant women develop strategies to cope with challenges posed by either their own migration or their husbands’ migration has been widely studied. However, how migrant men adjust and change their care practices and domestic roles to accommodate challenges brought about by migration…

  • Frequent border‐crossing children and cultural membership

    Open Access•Tuen Yi Chiu, So Yung Choi•ARTICLE•Population Space and Place•2018•Cited by: 16•References: 21

    Migration studies typically conceptualise children as either “stayers” or “movers.” However, such binary conceptualisation is at odds with the experiences of children who cross borders frequently. Using the case of children with Hong Kong right of abode who live in southern China but commute daily to Hong Kong to pursue education, this paper examines the structural and family factors leading to this form of frequent border crossing and identifies…

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  • Performative family

    Open Access•So Yung Choi, Susanne Yp Choi et al.•ARTICLE•British Journal of Sociology•2016•Cited by: 63•References: 24

    Using in-depth interview data on nominal marriages - legal marriages between a gay man and a lesbian to give the appearance of heterosexuality - this paper develops the concept of performative family to explain the processes through which parents and their adult children negotiate and resolve disagreements in relation to marriage decisions in post-socialist China. We identify three mechanisms - network pressure, a revised discourse of filial piet…

  • Masculinity and Precarity

    Open Access•So Yung Choi•ARTICLE•Work Employment and Society•2018•Cited by: 33•References: 20

    This article examines how male rural-to-urban migrant taxi drivers' experience of a loss of control over their working conditions and increasing financial insecurity are driven by state regulation and market reorganization of the taxi industry, and their status as second class citizens in urban China. Precarity, as explored in this article, speaks to feelings of disempowerment, a profound sense of livelihood insecurity and a crisis of social repr…

  • Forgiveness and Transitional Justice in the Czech Republic

    Open Access•Roman David, So Yung Choi et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Conflict Resolution•2006•Cited by: 31•References: 24

    This article examines major theoretical assumptions about forgiveness by victims of human rights abuses in the context of transitional justice in the Czech Republic. The authors hypothesize that forgiveness is facilitated by restoring equality between victims and perpetrators, namely: individual, social and political empowerment of victims; decreasing the superior position of perpetrators, especially through their punishment; and a repentant gest…

  • Social Isolation and Spousal Violence

    Open Access•So Yung Choi, Susanne Y P Choi et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Marriage and the Family•2012•Cited by: 26•References: 46

    This research examined the impact of network participation, social support, and social control on the violence victimization of female marriage migrants by a spouse. Data were from a household survey of 492 cross-border and 379 local married couples in Hong Kong in 2007. The findings indicated that female marriage migrants were more vulnerable to spousal violence and more socially isolated, compared with local women. Husbands of marriage migrants…

  • Getting Even or Getting Equal? Retributive Desires and Transitional Justice

    Open Access•Roman David, So Yung Choi et al.•ARTICLE•Political Psychology•2009•Cited by: 24•References: 25

    This article examines the effect that different policy interventions of transitional justice have on the desires of the victims of human rights violations for retribution. The retributive desires assessed in this article are conceptualized as individual, collective, and abstract demands for the imposition of a commensurate degree of suffering upon the offender. We suggest a plausible way of reducing victims’ retributive desires. Instead of “getti…

  • When protests and daily life converge

    Open Access•So Yung Choi•ARTICLE•Critique of Anthropology•2020•Cited by: 20•References: 2

    Social scientists are prone to define social movements as something extraordinary, existing outside the mundane world of daily routines and lives. However, as the anti-extradition movement in Hong Kong has illustrated, protest and daily routines often overlap. This is due in part to the decentralisation of protest events geographically and the mobilisation of conventional life spaces and cultural repertoires as protest tactics. When protests beco…

  • The influence of power, poverty and agency in the negotiation of condom use for female sex workers in mainland China

    So Yung Choi, Susanne Y P Choi et al.•ARTICLE•Culture Health & Sexuality•2007•Cited by: 20

    This paper analyses barriers to consistent condom use in the context of transactional sex among female sex workers in mainland China. It reveals how differences in socioeconomic profile and organisational hierarchies amongst different groups of sex workers create different barriers to condom use. Data was collected by means of field observation of entertainment venues and in-depth interviews. Findings suggest that, compared with other sex workers…

  • Getting Ahead in the Capitalist Paradise

    Open Access•Stephen W K Chiu, So Yung Choi et al.•ARTICLE•International Migration Review•2005•Cited by: 20•References: 16

    This article examines the initial labor market outcome and the subsequent mobility process of Chinese immigrants in Colonial Hong Kong using complete work history data and event history modeling. Contrary to the rhetoric that Hong Kong is a capitalist paradise for adventurers, the data showed that immigrants were penalized in their initial class placement, subsequent mobility, and current income attainment. Differences in educational attainment a…

  • Frequent border‐crossing children and cultural membership

    Open Access•Tuen Yi Chiu, So Yung Choi•ARTICLE•Population Space and Place•2018•Cited by: 16•References: 21

    Migration studies typically conceptualise children as either “stayers” or “movers.” However, such binary conceptualisation is at odds with the experiences of children who cross borders frequently. Using the case of children with Hong Kong right of abode who live in southern China but commute daily to Hong Kong to pursue education, this paper examines the structural and family factors leading to this form of frequent border crossing and identifies…

  • The decoupling of legal and spatial migration of female marriage migrants

    Tuen Yi Chiu, So Yung Choi•ARTICLE•New Community•2020•Cited by: 12•References: 35

    The literature on cross-border marriages between women from the global south and men from the global north largely assumes patrilocality as a direct result of hypergamous marriage migration. There has been little research into the experiences of brides who relocate to their husband’s country to fulfil the roles of wife and mother but are not given citizenship rights or brides who do not relocate even after obtaining residency or citizenship in th…

  • Humanized management? Capital and migrant labour in a time of labour shortage in South China

    Open Access•So Yung Choi, Susanne Yp Choi et al.•ARTICLE•Human Relations•2015•Cited by: 12•References: 31

    This article explores changing strategies of managerial control in a labour-intensive factory in South China at a time of labour shortage. It describes power relationships between capital and migrant labour under changing labour market conditions, migrant cohorts and global business environment, and analyses a new paternalist managerial strategy named ‘humanized management’ and workers’ reactions to it. Although ‘humanized management’, as part of…

  • Global Multiple Migration

    Open Access•So Yung Choi•ARTICLE•Sociology•2022•Cited by: 11•References: 30

    The present study examines how global multiple migration - a pattern of migration characterised by multiple changes of destination internationally in one's lifetime - becomes a strategy employed by highly educated, Chinese self-identified gay men to navigate social stigmatisation, negotiate family pressure, circumvent state oppression and achieve desired life goals. By examining the intersection between sexuality, migration and class, the present…

  • Heterogeneous and vulnerable

    Open Access•So Yung Choi•ARTICLE•Sociology of Health & Illness•2011•Cited by: 11•References: 11

    Representations of transnational sex workers have been dominated by the trafficked victim discourse that often overlooks the heterogeneity of this population and variations in the health risks that different sub-groups face. This paper addresses this deficiency by examining differences in the socio-economic backgrounds, working conditions, HIV/AIDS knowledge, and vulnerability to health risks of female sex workers from Russia, Vietnam, Thailand, …

  • Premarital Sexuality, Abortion, and Intergenerational Dynamics in China

    Open Access•Ruby Y S Lai, So Yung Choi et al.•ARTICLE•Modern China•2021•Cited by: 9•References: 33

    This article uses premarital abortion(s) as a window to examine diverse parental roles in adult unmarried daughters’ intimate lives in post-socialist China. It also addresses issues of premarital sex, premarital pregnancy, and the emergence of a dating culture. The article identifies four patterns of parent–adult daughter interactions during the decision-making process of premarital abortion: no recognizable parental role, referencing perceived p…

  • Dissimilar and Disadvantaged

    Open Access•So Yung Choi, Susanne Y P Choi et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Family Issues•2017•Cited by: 9•References: 45

    The failure of cross-border marriages has often been attributed to the large age discrepancy between husband and wife, while disadvantage resulted from the selectivity of husbands from low socioeconomic backgrounds has received less attention. Analyzing couple-level household survey data ( N = 871) in Hong Kong, this study compares marital conflict in local and cross-border couples by examining the mediating factors such as age discrepancy and so…

  • Gender Irrelevance

    So Yung Choi, Susanne Y P Choi et al.•ARTICLE•Signs: Journal of Women in…•2020•Cited by: 8•References: 22

    Right-wing groups have generally been considered gender-conservative or, in some instances, sexist. Given this background, it is a puzzle why young people, particularly women with relatively liberal gender attitudes, support these groups. This article tries to answer this question by comparing men’s and women’s justifications for participation in nativist and antimigration political groups. It develops the concept of gender irrelevance, defined a…

  • Migration, masculinity, and family

    So Yung Choi•ARTICLE•New Community•2019•Cited by: 8•References: 47

    Previous studies of migration, family, and gender have shown that migration is not only an event that changes family life, the change itself is a gendered process. How migrant women develop strategies to cope with challenges posed by either their own migration or their husbands’ migration has been widely studied. However, how migrant men adjust and change their care practices and domestic roles to accommodate challenges brought about by migration…

  • Lustration Systems and Trust

    So Yung Choi, Susanne Y P Choi et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•2012•Cited by: 8•References: 46

    Dealing with personnel inherited from prior regimes in the administration of transitional states is critical for democratic consolidation, a problem traditionally addressed by the dichotomy of continuation or dismissal. However, major organizational innovations to deal with tainted officials appear in postcommunist Central Europe. Using the concept of lustration systems, this study differentiates three archetypes: dismissal, exposure, and confess…

  • Gender and HIV risk behavior among intravenous drug users in Sichuan Province, China

    Open Access•So Yung Choi, Susanne Y P Choi et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2006•Cited by: 8•References: 39

  • Birth tourism and migrant children's agency

    So Yung Choi, Susanne Y P Choi et al.•ARTICLE•New Community•2022•Cited by: 6•References: 30

    The present study examines how, in the context of birth tourism, children cope with the tensions between migration, family strategy, poverty, and societal exclusionary practices directed against immigrants. The example of economically disadvantaged ‘double not’ children – that is, children born in Hong Kong to non-affluent mainland Chinese parents described as ‘birth tourists’ in post-handover Hong Kong – brings to the fore children’s agency in n…

  • Migration, service work, and masculinity in the global South

    Open Access•So Yung Choi, Siran Li•ARTICLE•Gender Work and Organization•2020•Cited by: 6•References: 13

    Past research on service work and masculinity has focused on men in traditionally feminized occupations or men in celebrated male‐dominated occupations in the global North, thus neglecting the experiences of men in low status, male‐dominated, and supposedly “masculine” service occupations in the global South. This article attempts to fill the gap by illustrating the problematic connections between work and masculinity among rural‐to‐urban male mi…

  • Non-Traditional Wives With Traditional Husbands

    Open Access•A K L Cheung, So Yung Choi et al.•ARTICLE•Violence Against Women•2016•Cited by: 6•References: 9

    Feminist scholars have argued that husband gender traditionalism is one of the root causes of spousal violence against women. Using couple-level data from Hong Kong ( N = 871 couples), this article argues that a second mechanism-couple gender value mismatch-also explains husband-to-wife physical assault. Our findings show that a husband's gender traditionalism is positively associated with husband-to-wife physical assault only when the husband is…

  • Not coming out as affective care

    Open Access•So Yung Choi•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review•2025•Cited by: 5•References: 46

    Using the decision to not come out amongst a group of Chinese LGBTQ+ individuals as its basis, the present study explains how care about and care for parents' feelings is viewed by adult children as a key and distinct form of care that is central to the working and doing of intergenerational intimacy. The study critically engages with research on affect, emotion and care, the body of literature on the intimate turn in contemporary families, and t…

  • Gendered Pragmatism and Subaltern Masculinity in China

    Open Access•So Yung Choi, Susanne Y P Choi•ARTICLE•American Behavioral Scientist•2016•Cited by: 5•References: 40

    Would migration be a transformative process to change gender and masculinity? This study explores the question by putting men at center stage and from their perspectives. The 2010 population census in China estimated that around 220 million people migrated from rural to urban areas. The majority of the earliest cohorts of female migrants in China were either dependents of migrants or their migration trajectory was truncated by family responsibili…

  • Bring the Subjective Back In

    Open Access•So Yung Choi, Susanne Yuk-Ping Choi et al.•ARTICLE•Violence Against Women•2014•Cited by: 4•References: 3

    Resource theory constitutes important explanations of spousal violence in culturally diverse societies. This article extends the theory by adding several subjective indicators: husband's financial strain and the couple's appraisal of each other's financial and nonfinancial contributions to family. We examined the role of these subjective dimensions of resource in spousal violence against the backdrop of other predictors, including the husband's a…

  • Getting Ahead in the Capitalist Paradise

    Open Access•Stephen W K Chiu, So Yung Choi et al.•ARTICLE•International Migration Review•2005•Cited by: 20•References: 16

    This article examines the initial labor market outcome and the subsequent mobility process of Chinese immigrants in Colonial Hong Kong using complete work history data and event history modeling. Contrary to the rhetoric that Hong Kong is a capitalist paradise for adventurers, the data showed that immigrants were penalized in their initial class placement, subsequent mobility, and current income attainment. Differences in educational attainment a…

  • Forgiveness and Transitional Justice in the Czech Republic

    Open Access•Roman David, So Yung Choi et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Conflict Resolution•2006•Cited by: 31•References: 24

    This article examines major theoretical assumptions about forgiveness by victims of human rights abuses in the context of transitional justice in the Czech Republic. The authors hypothesize that forgiveness is facilitated by restoring equality between victims and perpetrators, namely: individual, social and political empowerment of victims; decreasing the superior position of perpetrators, especially through their punishment; and a repentant gest…

  • Gender and HIV risk behavior among intravenous drug users in Sichuan Province, China

    Open Access•So Yung Choi, Susanne Y P Choi et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2006•Cited by: 8•References: 39

  • Ethnicity and risk factors in needle sharing among intravenous drug users in Sichuan Province, China

    So Yung Choi, Susanne Y P Choi et al.•ARTICLE•AIDS Care•2007

    Combining survey and ethnographic data, this research examined differences in the risk factors associated with needle sharing amongst intravenous drug users (IDUs) in the Sichuan Province of China. A comparison was made between the province's majority Han population and its Yi minority. We developed a theoretical framework consisting of risk factors at the individual level (including risk factors such as lack of AIDS knowledge, low self-efficacy,…

  • The influence of power, poverty and agency in the negotiation of condom use for female sex workers in mainland China

    So Yung Choi, Susanne Y P Choi et al.•ARTICLE•Culture Health & Sexuality•2007•Cited by: 20

    This paper analyses barriers to consistent condom use in the context of transactional sex among female sex workers in mainland China. It reveals how differences in socioeconomic profile and organisational hierarchies amongst different groups of sex workers create different barriers to condom use. Data was collected by means of field observation of entertainment venues and in-depth interviews. Findings suggest that, compared with other sex workers…

  • Getting Even or Getting Equal? Retributive Desires and Transitional Justice

    Open Access•Roman David, So Yung Choi et al.•ARTICLE•Political Psychology•2009•Cited by: 24•References: 25

    This article examines the effect that different policy interventions of transitional justice have on the desires of the victims of human rights violations for retribution. The retributive desires assessed in this article are conceptualized as individual, collective, and abstract demands for the imposition of a commensurate degree of suffering upon the offender. We suggest a plausible way of reducing victims’ retributive desires. Instead of “getti…

  • Heterogeneous and vulnerable

    Open Access•So Yung Choi•ARTICLE•Sociology of Health & Illness•2011•Cited by: 11•References: 11

    Representations of transnational sex workers have been dominated by the trafficked victim discourse that often overlooks the heterogeneity of this population and variations in the health risks that different sub-groups face. This paper addresses this deficiency by examining differences in the socio-economic backgrounds, working conditions, HIV/AIDS knowledge, and vulnerability to health risks of female sex workers from Russia, Vietnam, Thailand, …

  • Social Isolation and Spousal Violence

    Open Access•So Yung Choi, Susanne Y P Choi et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Marriage and the Family•2012•Cited by: 26•References: 46

    This research examined the impact of network participation, social support, and social control on the violence victimization of female marriage migrants by a spouse. Data were from a household survey of 492 cross-border and 379 local married couples in Hong Kong in 2007. The findings indicated that female marriage migrants were more vulnerable to spousal violence and more socially isolated, compared with local women. Husbands of marriage migrants…

  • Lustration Systems and Trust

    So Yung Choi, Susanne Y P Choi et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•2012•Cited by: 8•References: 46

    Dealing with personnel inherited from prior regimes in the administration of transitional states is critical for democratic consolidation, a problem traditionally addressed by the dichotomy of continuation or dismissal. However, major organizational innovations to deal with tainted officials appear in postcommunist Central Europe. Using the concept of lustration systems, this study differentiates three archetypes: dismissal, exposure, and confess…

  • Bring the Subjective Back In

    Open Access•So Yung Choi, Susanne Yuk-Ping Choi et al.•ARTICLE•Violence Against Women•2014•Cited by: 4•References: 3

    Resource theory constitutes important explanations of spousal violence in culturally diverse societies. This article extends the theory by adding several subjective indicators: husband's financial strain and the couple's appraisal of each other's financial and nonfinancial contributions to family. We examined the role of these subjective dimensions of resource in spousal violence against the backdrop of other predictors, including the husband's a…

  • Humanized management? Capital and migrant labour in a time of labour shortage in South China

    Open Access•So Yung Choi, Susanne Yp Choi et al.•ARTICLE•Human Relations•2015•Cited by: 12•References: 31

    This article explores changing strategies of managerial control in a labour-intensive factory in South China at a time of labour shortage. It describes power relationships between capital and migrant labour under changing labour market conditions, migrant cohorts and global business environment, and analyses a new paternalist managerial strategy named ‘humanized management’ and workers’ reactions to it. Although ‘humanized management’, as part of…

  • Not Just Mom and Dad

    Open Access•L Lui, So Yung Choi et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Family Issues•2015•Cited by: 2•References: 30

    This article investigates how children actively influence the division of childcare between couples in intact families in Hong Kong. Past studies that draw on West and Zimmerman's perspective of 'doing gender' have focused narrowly on the dyadic interactions between couples that produce, reproduce, or challenge the unequal division of household labor, but these studies have left unanswered the question of the role children play in shaping and sus…

  • Masculine Compromise

    So Yung Choi, Susanne Yuk-Ping Choi et al.•BOOK•Masculine Compromise•2016

  • Children and migration in China

    So Yung Choi•ARTICLE•Asian Population Studies•2016•Cited by: 3•References: 2

    As a result of the unprecedented scale of rural-to-urban migration China has witnessed in the past 30 years, the number of both left-behind and migrant children has increased rapidly. The 2010 Cens

  • Non-Traditional Wives With Traditional Husbands

    Open Access•A K L Cheung, So Yung Choi et al.•ARTICLE•Violence Against Women•2016•Cited by: 6•References: 9

    Feminist scholars have argued that husband gender traditionalism is one of the root causes of spousal violence against women. Using couple-level data from Hong Kong ( N = 871 couples), this article argues that a second mechanism-couple gender value mismatch-also explains husband-to-wife physical assault. Our findings show that a husband's gender traditionalism is positively associated with husband-to-wife physical assault only when the husband is…

  • Performative family

    Open Access•So Yung Choi, Susanne Yp Choi et al.•ARTICLE•British Journal of Sociology•2016•Cited by: 63•References: 24

    Using in-depth interview data on nominal marriages - legal marriages between a gay man and a lesbian to give the appearance of heterosexuality - this paper develops the concept of performative family to explain the processes through which parents and their adult children negotiate and resolve disagreements in relation to marriage decisions in post-socialist China. We identify three mechanisms - network pressure, a revised discourse of filial piet…

  • Migration and Identity

    Open Access•Eric Fong, M Verkuyten et al.•ARTICLE•American Behavioral Scientist•2016•Cited by: 2•References: 6

  • Gendered Pragmatism and Subaltern Masculinity in China

    Open Access•So Yung Choi, Susanne Y P Choi•ARTICLE•American Behavioral Scientist•2016•Cited by: 5•References: 40

    Would migration be a transformative process to change gender and masculinity? This study explores the question by putting men at center stage and from their perspectives. The 2010 population census in China estimated that around 220 million people migrated from rural to urban areas. The majority of the earliest cohorts of female migrants in China were either dependents of migrants or their migration trajectory was truncated by family responsibili…

  • Out to Work

    So Yung Choi, Susanne Y P Choi•ARTICLE•NAN Nü•2017

  • Dissimilar and Disadvantaged

    Open Access•So Yung Choi, Susanne Y P Choi et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Family Issues•2017•Cited by: 9•References: 45

    The failure of cross-border marriages has often been attributed to the large age discrepancy between husband and wife, while disadvantage resulted from the selectivity of husbands from low socioeconomic backgrounds has received less attention. Analyzing couple-level household survey data ( N = 871) in Hong Kong, this study compares marital conflict in local and cross-border couples by examining the mediating factors such as age discrepancy and so…

  • Frequent border‐crossing children and cultural membership

    Open Access•Tuen Yi Chiu, So Yung Choi•ARTICLE•Population Space and Place•2018•Cited by: 16•References: 21

    Migration studies typically conceptualise children as either “stayers” or “movers.” However, such binary conceptualisation is at odds with the experiences of children who cross borders frequently. Using the case of children with Hong Kong right of abode who live in southern China but commute daily to Hong Kong to pursue education, this paper examines the structural and family factors leading to this form of frequent border crossing and identifies…

  • Masculinity and Precarity

    Open Access•So Yung Choi•ARTICLE•Work Employment and Society•2018•Cited by: 33•References: 20

    This article examines how male rural-to-urban migrant taxi drivers' experience of a loss of control over their working conditions and increasing financial insecurity are driven by state regulation and market reorganization of the taxi industry, and their status as second class citizens in urban China. Precarity, as explored in this article, speaks to feelings of disempowerment, a profound sense of livelihood insecurity and a crisis of social repr…

  • A National Survey of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use for Treatment Among Asian-Americans

    Open Access•Rhea Faye D Felicilda‐Reynaldo, So Yung Choi et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Immigrant and Minority…•2019

  • Migration, masculinity, and family

    So Yung Choi•ARTICLE•New Community•2019•Cited by: 8•References: 47

    Previous studies of migration, family, and gender have shown that migration is not only an event that changes family life, the change itself is a gendered process. How migrant women develop strategies to cope with challenges posed by either their own migration or their husbands’ migration has been widely studied. However, how migrant men adjust and change their care practices and domestic roles to accommodate challenges brought about by migration…

  • Migration, service work, and masculinity in the global South

    Open Access•So Yung Choi, Siran Li•ARTICLE•Gender Work and Organization•2020•Cited by: 6•References: 13

    Past research on service work and masculinity has focused on men in traditionally feminized occupations or men in celebrated male‐dominated occupations in the global North, thus neglecting the experiences of men in low status, male‐dominated, and supposedly “masculine” service occupations in the global South. This article attempts to fill the gap by illustrating the problematic connections between work and masculinity among rural‐to‐urban male mi…

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