Yanfang Su
Biographic Data
| ID | 122859 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yanfang Su |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yanfang |
| FAMILY NAME | Su |
| SIGNATURE | SU Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2221-538X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Evaluating the translation of deontic and epistemic modal expressions in legal texts: A comparison between human translators and the GPT-4 model
The inherent differences between languages and the distinct origins of legal concepts often lead to terminological asymmetries, posing significant challenges for legal translators. The emergence of large language models such as GPT-4 has created new opportunities for legal translation. This study examines how GPT-4 handles modal expressions in legal translation compared to human translators within Hong Kong’s bilingual common law system. Modality…
“Working the Pages”: Entrepreneurship Strategies of Venezuelan Trans Women Refugees Who Enter Sex Work in Brazil During Covid‐19
The Venezuelan refugee crisis has displaced nearly 8 million people, with transgender and queer refugees among the most marginalized groups. This paper explores the intersecting precarity and entrepreneurship of Venezuelan trans women refugees who became sex workers in Brazil during COVID‐19. These women confronted homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, and exclusion from both formal employment and community support. Drawing on interviews with 18 t…
Flipping the Lens: Using Instagram for Photovoice and Videovoice With LGBTQ+ Migrants in São Paulo
This article examines Instagram as a tool for data collection with LGBTQ+ refugees and migrants in São Paulo, Brazil. While photovoice and videovoice are widely used, integrating Instagram enables forms of data collection not usually possible with these methods. Twenty-one LGBTQ+ migrants created original visual content. Instagram allowed participants creative control compared with conventional photovoice, choosing how to represent themselves thr…
Digital Twins
Digital twin (DT) emerges as a frontier for integrating research, development, innovation, and problem‐solving through digital technologies. DT enables analyses and solutions to real‐world problems by leveraging advanced observation data from sources of in situ (monitoring stations), citizen sensing, and satellites. DT seeks to best replicate real‐world problems and conduct “what‐if” analyses for optimum solutions. Data fusion technologies are em…
Covid-19 and urban poor communities in Metro Manila: Social vulnerability and the ‘pasaway’
This article examines the impact of the Philippine government’s response to COVID-19 on urban poor communities in Metro Manila. The central government's response to COVID-19 was militarised and this left many socially vulnerable urban poor families with a dilemma. They faced either violating quarantine regulations and risking arrest in the pursuit of their livelihood or starving at home. Quarantine violators were cast in the role of ‘ pasaway ’ o…
Innovative Nutrition Policies and Programs to Reduce Low-Income Children’s Sodium Intake in the United States: Implication for Social Work
Globally, high sodium intake is the leading dietary risk factor of morality. Most Americans, including children, consume too much sodium compared with the federal guidelines. Socioeconomic and racial disparities place children, many of color, from low-income households and neighborhoods, at higher risk of consuming foods high in sodium. Preferences in sodium levels are determined during childhood and can be challenging to modify in adulthood. Thu…
Cascading catastrophes: Gendered experiences of the pandemic among Typhoon Haiyan survivors in Tacloban City
Purpose To understand the gendered impacts of the cascading disasters that represent the COVID-19 pandemic on Typhoon Haiyan survivors living in resettlement sites in Tacloban City, the city most devastated by the 2013 Typhoon Haiyan. Design/methodology/approach Findings are based on household surveys conducted for an exploratory project broadly studying the effects of COVID-19 on resettlement site residents. Fieldwork was conducted in June 2021 …
Networks of South-South Queer Forced Migration: LGBTQ+ Venezuelans in Northern Brazil During Covid-19
This study examines the effects of the pandemic on the social capital of Venezuelan LGBTQ+ refugees and migrants in northern Brazil. Based on 56 surveys and 28 semi-structured interviews with LGBTQ+ Venezuelan refugees and migrants in Manaus, 10 key informant interviews with politicians, NGOs, and UN staff in Brazil and participant observations in various shelters in northern Brazil, this paper shed light on the unique challenges faced by LGBTQ+ …
It’s not me – it’s you: A working mum ends her politely abusive relationship with benevolent sexism
Empty pantries: The death of survival myths among typhoon Haiyan survivors in resettlement sites during Covid-19
Research has shown that globally, people often rely on their social networks to survive and recover from crises and disasters. This phenomenon has also been seen in the Philippines, a nation well-acquainted with disasters. This paper will look at the role social capital has played in the survival of an understudied and vulnerable group in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic - the survivors of Typhoon Haiyan (locally known as Typhoon Yola…
Lexical complexity in exemplar EFL texts: Towards text adaptation for 12 grades of basic English curriculum in China
Lexical complexity has been a key consideration of teaching preparation in determining grade appropriateness of teaching materials. However, the lack of quantified and defined standards for benchmarking lexical complexity has made it difficult for teachers when adapting source texts to target learners. This study has assessed quantitative differences in lexical complexity of exemplar texts at different points of schooling using a range of lexical…
How do students engage with parallel corpora in translation? A multiple case study approach
While emerging research has contributed significantly to our understanding of the efficacy of parallel corpora in translation education, specifically concerning student performance and perception, however, there remains a noticeable gap in the literature regarding the examination of student engagement with parallel corpora during the translation process. To address this research gap, the present study seeks to comprehensively analyse the behaviou…
Unpacking water governance dynamics and its implications for household water security in post-disaster resettlement communities in the Philippines
Water security is important globally for sustaining households, communities, and the environment. However, most studies have focused on water availability and accessibility, whereas research examining the role of power and politics in shaping water insecurity remains marginal. This study contributes to this research gap by unpacking the overlapping drivers and politics in water governance dynamics that co-produce the water insecurity of Typhoon H…
Becoming the ideal woman-of-colour academic for everyone but me
Collaborating with ChatGPT in argumentative writing classrooms
Lifting all boats: Strategies to promote equitable bidirectional research training opportunities to enhance global health reciprocal innovation
Inequities in global health research are well documented. For example, training opportunities for US investigators to conduct research in low-income and middle-income countries (LMIC) have exceeded opportunities for LMIC investigators to train and conduct research in high-income countries. Reciprocal innovation addresses these inequities through collaborative research across diverse global settings. The Fogarty International Center of the US Nati…
The water extract of Potentilla discolor Bunge (PDW) ameliorates high-sugar diet-induced type II diabetes model in Drosophila melanogaster via JAK/STAT signaling
No One Wants to Hire Us: The intersectional precarity experienced by Venezuelan LGBTQ+ asylum seekers in Brazil during Covid-19
This article presents a case study of how COVID-19 has increased the precarity and risks of labour exploitation for vulnerable populations. Looking at the situation of LGBTQ+ Venezuelan asylum seekers in Brazil during COVID-19, it examines how the challenges they faced were exacerbated during the pandemic and how the Brazilian government’s poor response to COVID-19 and lockdown policies forced LGBTQ+ Venezuelan asylum seekers to take greater risk…
Potentials and pitfalls of social capital ties to climate change adaptation: An exploratory study of Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines
Climate change’s impacts vary across different geographical regions and societies, thus, underpinning the value of context-specific adaptation strategies grounded in local knowledge, social cohesion and community dynamics. This paper explores the potentials and pitfalls of social capital to climate change adaptation – an underexplored area of inquiry on climate change and Indigenous development literature. A qualitative case study design was used…
Migration and democracy: How remittances undermine dictatorships
Journal Article Migration and democracy: how remittances undermine dictatorships Get access Migration and democracy: how remittances undermine dictatorships. By Abel Escribà-Folch, Covadonga Meseguer and Joseph Wright. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2022. 320pp. £84.00. Isbn978 0 69119 938 2. Available as e-book. Yvonne Su Yvonne Su York University, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Intern…
Resilience Unfiltered: Local Understandings of Resilience after Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban City, Philippines
In the context of disasters, the term ‘resilience’ is viewed by some humanitarians as overused, underdefined and difficult to operationalise. Moreover, much of this process has been expert- and humanitarian-led, leaving out the understanding of resilience at the local level, among disaster-affected people and in local languages. And when local input from disaster-affected households is included, their understanding of resilience is often filtered…
Networks of recovery: Remittances, social capital and post-disaster recovery in Tacloban City, Philippines
People exposed to natural hazards, especially those in weak states, depend on their social networks to survive. But in the face of disasters, such as Typhoon Haiyan that struck the Philippines in 2013, a household's local network is equally affected, and the household have needs to seek help from outside ties. After Typhoon Haiyan, migrants rose as a major source of assistance for post-disaster recovery. This study asks how does social capital an…
Uneven recovery: A case study of factors affecting remittance-receiving in Tacloban, Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan
Over the last 15 years, a growing literature has suggested that remittances are important for post-disaster recovery in many developing countries. Yet, limited research has explored the complex relationships between remittance senders and receivers during and after disasters. The focus is on remittance-receiving households in Tacloban City in the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan. This study identifies five main factors that affect the ability of …
They Kill Us Trans Women’: Migration, informal labour, and sex work among trans Venezuelan asylum seekers and undocumented migrants in Brazil during Covid-19
This short article contributes to the growing scholarship on the complex ways sexual orientation and gender identity impact people’s experiences of migration, informal labour, and sex work. Drawing on surveys and interviews with twelve trans Venezuelan asylum seekers and undocumented migrants in Brazil and six key informant interviews with sex workers, trans activists, and humanitarian and NGO staff, this short article asks: How has COVID-19 affe…
Masks are for sissies: The story of LGBTQI+ asylum seekers in Brazil during Covid-19
Queer migration and counter-movement literature are established subsets of social science scholarship that, together, could illuminate debates around queer rights activism in a migration context. Yet, the intersection of these two sets of scholarship is largely underexplored. Recognizing this gap, a valuable case study can be found in Brazil, which is home to both the only LGBTQI+ refugee centre in Latin America, Casa Miga, and a growing anti-gay…
Pursuing the capabilities approach within the migration-development nexus
The ‘migration–development nexus’ has become an established development mantra with debate surrounding the ability of migration to promote economic growth and reduce poverty. The optimism of this debate is paired with a push to control migration through the promotion of temporary migration programmes and initiatives considered to support the regular movement of migrants. This dominant paradigm has come under criticism, however, for overlooking th…
Masks are for sissies: The story of LGBTQI+ asylum seekers in Brazil during Covid-19
Queer migration and counter-movement literature are established subsets of social science scholarship that, together, could illuminate debates around queer rights activism in a migration context. Yet, the intersection of these two sets of scholarship is largely underexplored. Recognizing this gap, a valuable case study can be found in Brazil, which is home to both the only LGBTQI+ refugee centre in Latin America, Casa Miga, and a growing anti-gay…
The progression of collaborative argumentation among English learners: A qualitative study
Globalising myths of survival: Post-disaster households after Typhoon Haiyan
Disasters, as forms of crisis, offer opportunities to place in sharper focus historical and ongoing inequalities in the production and reproduction of everyday life. The opportunity for transformative change, however, risks being lost when representations of disaster increasingly obscure and silence the full costs and complexity of post-disaster recovery. This article identifies the construction and subsequent proliferation of survival myths in t…
Unpacking water governance dynamics and its implications for household water security in post-disaster resettlement communities in the Philippines
Water security is important globally for sustaining households, communities, and the environment. However, most studies have focused on water availability and accessibility, whereas research examining the role of power and politics in shaping water insecurity remains marginal. This study contributes to this research gap by unpacking the overlapping drivers and politics in water governance dynamics that co-produce the water insecurity of Typhoon H…
No One Wants to Hire Us: The intersectional precarity experienced by Venezuelan LGBTQ+ asylum seekers in Brazil during Covid-19
This article presents a case study of how COVID-19 has increased the precarity and risks of labour exploitation for vulnerable populations. Looking at the situation of LGBTQ+ Venezuelan asylum seekers in Brazil during COVID-19, it examines how the challenges they faced were exacerbated during the pandemic and how the Brazilian government’s poor response to COVID-19 and lockdown policies forced LGBTQ+ Venezuelan asylum seekers to take greater risk…
Migration and democracy: How remittances undermine dictatorships
Journal Article Migration and democracy: how remittances undermine dictatorships Get access Migration and democracy: how remittances undermine dictatorships. By Abel Escribà-Folch, Covadonga Meseguer and Joseph Wright. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2022. 320pp. £84.00. Isbn978 0 69119 938 2. Available as e-book. Yvonne Su Yvonne Su York University, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Intern…
They Kill Us Trans Women’: Migration, informal labour, and sex work among trans Venezuelan asylum seekers and undocumented migrants in Brazil during Covid-19
This short article contributes to the growing scholarship on the complex ways sexual orientation and gender identity impact people’s experiences of migration, informal labour, and sex work. Drawing on surveys and interviews with twelve trans Venezuelan asylum seekers and undocumented migrants in Brazil and six key informant interviews with sex workers, trans activists, and humanitarian and NGO staff, this short article asks: How has COVID-19 affe…
Selling the Dead”: More dignified options needed to assist widows in post-disaster recovery after Typhoon Haiyan
Improving Vignette Descriptions and Question Formats to Measure Distance Vision: Evidence from Cognitive Interviews among Students in China
Vignette design has been largely neglected in anchoring vignette studies. This study aimed to contribute to the science of vignette design by developing and evaluating vignettes for measuring vision in rural China. Cognitive interviews were conducted among 36 participants in a Chinese middle school. The respondents either directly evaluated vision of the vignette character (i.e., noncomparative judgment) or compared their own vision with that of …
The impact of China’s Zero-Markup Drug Policy on county hospital revenue and government subsidy levels
In 2009, the Chinese government passed the Zero-Markup Drug Policy, which strives to contain the costs of medicines and ultimately reduce the financial burden to the public, especially those in low-income settings. This study aims to evaluate the impact of the Zero-Markup Drug Policy on health care provision, revenue structures in county hospitals, and demand for fiscal compensation from the government. Our study employs a difference-in-differenc…
Assessing equity of healthcare utilization in rural China: Results from nationally representative surveys from 1993 to 2008
Utilization of both outpatient and inpatient services was pro-rich in rural China with the exception of outpatient service in 2008. With the same needs for healthcare, rich rural residents utilized more healthcare service than poor rural residents. Compared to utilization of outpatient service, utilization of inpatient service was more inequitable. Inequity of utilization of outpatient service reduced gradually from 1993 to 2008; meanwhile, inequ…
The impact of China’s Zero-Markup Drug Policy on county hospital revenue and government subsidy levels
In 2009, the Chinese government passed the Zero-Markup Drug Policy, which strives to contain the costs of medicines and ultimately reduce the financial burden to the public, especially those in low-income settings. This study aims to evaluate the impact of the Zero-Markup Drug Policy on health care provision, revenue structures in county hospitals, and demand for fiscal compensation from the government. Our study employs a difference-in-differenc…
Pursuing the capabilities approach within the migration-development nexus
The ‘migration–development nexus’ has become an established development mantra with debate surrounding the ability of migration to promote economic growth and reduce poverty. The optimism of this debate is paired with a push to control migration through the promotion of temporary migration programmes and initiatives considered to support the regular movement of migrants. This dominant paradigm has come under criticism, however, for overlooking th…
The urban climate challenge: Rethinking the role of cities in the global climate regime, edited by Craig Johnson, Noah Toly and Heike Schroeder
The urban climate challenge: rethinking the role of cities in the global climate regime, edited by Craig Johnson, Noah Toly and Heike Schroeder." Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement, 38(4), pp. 582–583
Improving Vignette Descriptions and Question Formats to Measure Distance Vision: Evidence from Cognitive Interviews among Students in China
Vignette design has been largely neglected in anchoring vignette studies. This study aimed to contribute to the science of vignette design by developing and evaluating vignettes for measuring vision in rural China. Cognitive interviews were conducted among 36 participants in a Chinese middle school. The respondents either directly evaluated vision of the vignette character (i.e., noncomparative judgment) or compared their own vision with that of …
Post-disaster social capital: Trust, equity, bayanihan and Typhoon Yolanda
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of disaster rehabilitation interventions on bonding social capital in the aftermath of Typhoon Yolanda. Design/methodology/approach The data from the project are drawn from eight barangays in Tacloban City, the Philippines. Local residents and politicians were surveyed and interviewed to examine perceptions of resilience and community self-help. Findings The evidence shows that haphazard …
Globalising myths of survival: Post-disaster households after Typhoon Haiyan
Disasters, as forms of crisis, offer opportunities to place in sharper focus historical and ongoing inequalities in the production and reproduction of everyday life. The opportunity for transformative change, however, risks being lost when representations of disaster increasingly obscure and silence the full costs and complexity of post-disaster recovery. This article identifies the construction and subsequent proliferation of survival myths in t…
Whose views matter in post-disaster recovery? A case study of “build back better” in Tacloban City after Typhoon Haiyan
Local-indigenous knowledge on disaster risk reduction: Insights from the Mamanwa indigenous peoples in Basey, Samar after Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines
The Effects on Inappropriate Weight for Gestational Age of an SMS Based Educational Intervention for Pregnant Women in Xi’an China: A Quasi-Randomized Controlled Trial
A package of free informational text messages, including advice for good household prenatal practices and care seeking, may prevent the inappropriate weight for gestational age through a protective effect on macrosomia. Advice to encourage care seeking in pregnancy may prevent macrosomia among neonates in rural China as well
Selling the Dead”: More dignified options needed to assist widows in post-disaster recovery after Typhoon Haiyan
Trends and outcomes in primary health care expenditures in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000–2017
INTRODUCTION: As the world responds to COVID-19 and aims for the Sustainable Development Goals, the potential for primary healthcare (PHC) is substantial, although the trends and effectiveness of PHC expenditure are unknown. We estimate PHC expenditure for each low-income and middle-income country between 2000 and 2017 and test which health outputs and outcomes were associated with PHC expenditure. METHODS: We used three data sources to estimate …
The Impact of Policy Measures on Human Mobility, Covid-19 Cases, and Mortality in the US: A Spatiotemporal Perspective
Social distancing policies have been regarded as effective in containing the rapid spread of COVID-19. However, there is a limited understanding of policy effectiveness from a spatiotemporal perspective. This study integrates geographical, demographical, and other key factors into a regression-based event study framework, to assess the effectiveness of seven major policies on human mobility and COVID-19 case growth rates, with a spatiotemporal em…
Comparing the Quality of Primary Care between Public and Private Providers in Urban China: A Standardized Patient Study
Previous studies have been limited by not directly comparing the quality of public and private CHCs using a standardized patient method (SP). This study aims to evaluate and compare the quality of the primary care provided by public and private CHCs using a standardized patient method in urban China. We recruited 12 standardized patients from the local community presenting fixed cases (unstable angina and asthma), including 492 interactions betwe…
Phased Implementation of Covid-19 Vaccination: Rapid Assessment of Policy Adoption, Reach and Effectiveness to Protect the Most Vulnerable in the US
The US and the rest of the world have suffered from the COVID-19 pandemic for over a year. The high transmissibility and severity of this virus have provoked governments to adopt a variety of mitigation strategies. Some of these previous measures, such as social distancing and mask mandates, were effective in reducing the case growth rate yet became economically and administratively difficult to enforce as the pandemic continued. In late December…
The progression of collaborative argumentation among English learners: A qualitative study
Resilience Unfiltered: Local Understandings of Resilience after Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban City, Philippines
In the context of disasters, the term ‘resilience’ is viewed by some humanitarians as overused, underdefined and difficult to operationalise. Moreover, much of this process has been expert- and humanitarian-led, leaving out the understanding of resilience at the local level, among disaster-affected people and in local languages. And when local input from disaster-affected households is included, their understanding of resilience is often filtered…
Networks of recovery: Remittances, social capital and post-disaster recovery in Tacloban City, Philippines
People exposed to natural hazards, especially those in weak states, depend on their social networks to survive. But in the face of disasters, such as Typhoon Haiyan that struck the Philippines in 2013, a household's local network is equally affected, and the household have needs to seek help from outside ties. After Typhoon Haiyan, migrants rose as a major source of assistance for post-disaster recovery. This study asks how does social capital an…
Uneven recovery: A case study of factors affecting remittance-receiving in Tacloban, Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan
Over the last 15 years, a growing literature has suggested that remittances are important for post-disaster recovery in many developing countries. Yet, limited research has explored the complex relationships between remittance senders and receivers during and after disasters. The focus is on remittance-receiving households in Tacloban City in the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan. This study identifies five main factors that affect the ability of …
They Kill Us Trans Women’: Migration, informal labour, and sex work among trans Venezuelan asylum seekers and undocumented migrants in Brazil during Covid-19
This short article contributes to the growing scholarship on the complex ways sexual orientation and gender identity impact people’s experiences of migration, informal labour, and sex work. Drawing on surveys and interviews with twelve trans Venezuelan asylum seekers and undocumented migrants in Brazil and six key informant interviews with sex workers, trans activists, and humanitarian and NGO staff, this short article asks: How has COVID-19 affe…
Masks are for sissies: The story of LGBTQI+ asylum seekers in Brazil during Covid-19
Queer migration and counter-movement literature are established subsets of social science scholarship that, together, could illuminate debates around queer rights activism in a migration context. Yet, the intersection of these two sets of scholarship is largely underexplored. Recognizing this gap, a valuable case study can be found in Brazil, which is home to both the only LGBTQI+ refugee centre in Latin America, Casa Miga, and a growing anti-gay…
Collaborating with ChatGPT in argumentative writing classrooms
Lifting all boats: Strategies to promote equitable bidirectional research training opportunities to enhance global health reciprocal innovation
Inequities in global health research are well documented. For example, training opportunities for US investigators to conduct research in low-income and middle-income countries (LMIC) have exceeded opportunities for LMIC investigators to train and conduct research in high-income countries. Reciprocal innovation addresses these inequities through collaborative research across diverse global settings. The Fogarty International Center of the US Nati…
The water extract of Potentilla discolor Bunge (PDW) ameliorates high-sugar diet-induced type II diabetes model in Drosophila melanogaster via JAK/STAT signaling
No One Wants to Hire Us: The intersectional precarity experienced by Venezuelan LGBTQ+ asylum seekers in Brazil during Covid-19
This article presents a case study of how COVID-19 has increased the precarity and risks of labour exploitation for vulnerable populations. Looking at the situation of LGBTQ+ Venezuelan asylum seekers in Brazil during COVID-19, it examines how the challenges they faced were exacerbated during the pandemic and how the Brazilian government’s poor response to COVID-19 and lockdown policies forced LGBTQ+ Venezuelan asylum seekers to take greater risk…
Sociology (21 works) · Geography (18 works) · Political science (17 works) · Economic growth (16 works) · Economics (16 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (13 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (9 works) · Law (8 works)