Grace W F Chau
Biographic Data
| ID | 1246847 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Grace W F Chau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Grace W F |
| FAMILY NAME | Chau |
| SIGNATURE | CHAU G W F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3445-5420 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Migration aspirations, life stage, and early-life socialisation experiences: Examining age-cohort variations among Chinese migrants
This paper examines motivational differences among different age-cohorts of wealthy Chinese migrants by incorporating the migration aspirations-capabilities framework with life-course analysis, combined with an analysis of migrants’ early-life socialisation experiences. Using empirical evidence generated from 56 semi-structured interviews with Chinese migrants living in Australia, Canada, the UK, and the US, the study discovers instrumental, futu…
Get Rich and Get Going: Understanding Chinese Lifestyle Migrants to Western Countries
There is a tendency in migration studies to categorize all voluntary migrants without economic incentives as lifestyle migrants. As members of the Chinese middle class migrated to Western countries over the past two decades, after accumulating wealth in their homeland, they, too, were easily subsumed into the category of lifestyle migrants. This study argues that contemporary wealthy Chinese migrants cannot simply be classified as lifestyle migra…
Conditional Loyalty and Exit: Explaining the Emigration of Wealthy Chinese after the 2012 Leadership Change
This article aims to explain the emigration of wealthy Chinese citizens after the 2012 political leadership change, with reference to Hirschman’s model. It builds on the concepts of loyalty and exit in the context of an authoritarian regime with rapid economic growth, to offer insights into the self-declared reasons behind the emigration of these people from China. Based on evidence from 25 semi-structured interviews conducted in 2021 with Chines…
Get Rich and Get Going: Understanding Chinese Lifestyle Migrants to Western Countries
There is a tendency in migration studies to categorize all voluntary migrants without economic incentives as lifestyle migrants. As members of the Chinese middle class migrated to Western countries over the past two decades, after accumulating wealth in their homeland, they, too, were easily subsumed into the category of lifestyle migrants. This study argues that contemporary wealthy Chinese migrants cannot simply be classified as lifestyle migra…
Conditional Loyalty and Exit: Explaining the Emigration of Wealthy Chinese after the 2012 Leadership Change
This article aims to explain the emigration of wealthy Chinese citizens after the 2012 political leadership change, with reference to Hirschman’s model. It builds on the concepts of loyalty and exit in the context of an authoritarian regime with rapid economic growth, to offer insights into the self-declared reasons behind the emigration of these people from China. Based on evidence from 25 semi-structured interviews conducted in 2021 with Chines…
Migration aspirations, life stage, and early-life socialisation experiences: Examining age-cohort variations among Chinese migrants
This paper examines motivational differences among different age-cohorts of wealthy Chinese migrants by incorporating the migration aspirations-capabilities framework with life-course analysis, combined with an analysis of migrants’ early-life socialisation experiences. Using empirical evidence generated from 56 semi-structured interviews with Chinese migrants living in Australia, Canada, the UK, and the US, the study discovers instrumental, futu…
Get Rich and Get Going: Understanding Chinese Lifestyle Migrants to Western Countries
There is a tendency in migration studies to categorize all voluntary migrants without economic incentives as lifestyle migrants. As members of the Chinese middle class migrated to Western countries over the past two decades, after accumulating wealth in their homeland, they, too, were easily subsumed into the category of lifestyle migrants. This study argues that contemporary wealthy Chinese migrants cannot simply be classified as lifestyle migra…
Migration and Labor Dynamics (2 works) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (2 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (2 works) · Business (1 works) · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations (1 works) · China's Global Influence and Migration (1 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Emigration (1 works) · Empirical research (1 works)