Janet W Salaff
Biographic Data
| ID | 160122 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet W Salaff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet W |
| FAMILY NAME | Salaff |
| SIGNATURE | SALAFF J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 285 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 55 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Competing interests: Toronto's Chinese immigrant associations and the politics of multiculturalism
Social service agencies and advocacy groups have played an integral role in mediating between the Asian ethnic populations. In the Canadian institutional setting, associations become a means of political expression. Canada incorporates new immigrants into its national institutions. However, these neo‐liberal institutions and policies have not redressed major problems arising in the settlement process. Under Canada's discourse of enlightened multi…
Social Network Approach to Understand the Ethnic Economy: A Theoretical Discourse1
Cluster Introduction 1: Subethnicity in the Chinese Diaspora 2
Can women's social networks migrate
Social Networks and Entrepreneurship
We study network activities of entrepreneurs through three phases of establishing a firm in four countries. Entrepreneurs access people in their networks to discuss aspects of establishing and running a business. We find that entrepreneurs build networks that systematically vary by the phase of entrepreneurship, analyzing number of their discussion partners, and the time spent networking. Entrepreneurs talk with more people during the planning th…
Gendered structural barriers to job attainment for skilled Chinese emigrants in Canada
Our study examines the career achievements of 50 professional couples that immigrated from China to Canada. We compare their job attainment when they left China with that years after immigration. We apply concepts of human capital and institutional theory to understand why the job status of the majority drops after immigrating. Human capital concepts account for most career advancement in China. Human capital theory falls short in explaining the …
Professionals from China: Entrepreneurship and Social Resources in a Strange Land
New skilled immigrants may have a hard time getting jobs. Among other reasons, local employers may not value their foreign-earned credentials. This could prompt professional and technical immigrants to start a business instead. In this paper, we examined how educated immigrants from the People's Republic of China avoid underemployment in Canada by setting up their own businesses. We found that many immigrants brought entrepreneurial backgrounds w…
The New Migration in Europe: Social Constructions and Social Realities
Social Construction of Gender Inequality in the Housing System: Housing Experiences of Women in Hong Kong . Kim Wah Chan Welfare in Newly-Industrialised Society: The Construction of the Welfare State …
Network Capital: Emigration from Hong Kong
In this paper, we argue that it would be fruitful to regard personal networks as a form of capital capable of generating economic returns by drawing on our research findings on the recent wave of emigration from Hong Kong. By putting network capital on a par with economic and cultural capital, we seek to identify its distinctive features in terms of institutionalization, capacity, moral economy, and processes of conversion and reproduction. In su…
Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era. Deborah Davis , Stevan Harrell
The Gendered Social Organization of Migration as Work
Borrowing concepts from the study of work and occupations as well as gender studies, this paper considers the social organization of migration as gendered work. It explores women's and men's contribution to two aspects of family resources needed to migrate: (a) jobs and the non-market exchanges involved in obtaining work, and (b) the support of kin. The data come from a study of 30 emigrant and non-emigrant families representing three social clas…
What makes Life Worth Living? How Japanese and Americans make Sense of Their Worlds
The New Strategies of Adjustment: A Singapore Chinese Woman
Conclusion
Japan's 'International' Youth: The Emergence of a New Class of Schoolchildren
Computer Networks as Social Networks: Collaborative Work, Telework, and Virtual Community
When computer networks link people as well as machines, they become social networks. Such computer-supported social networks (CSSNs) are becoming important bases of virtual communities, computer-supported cooperative work, and telework. Computer-mediated communication such as electronic mail and computerized conferencing is usually text-based and asynchronous. It has limited social presence, and on-line communications are often more uninhibited, …
Cowboys & Cultivators: The Chinese of Inner Mongolia
Cowboys and Cultivators: The Chinese of Inner Mongolia
Lao Peasants Under Socialism.Grant Evans
The Emergence of Private Life: Political-Economic Background and Symbolic Meanings
State and Family in Singapore: Restructuring a Developing Society
State and Family in Singapore: Restructuring an Industrial Society
Keeping It in the Family: Social Networks and Employment Chance.Margaret Grieco
The Japanese School: Lessons for Industrial America
Computer Networks as Social Networks: Collaborative Work, Telework, and Virtual Community
When computer networks link people as well as machines, they become social networks. Such computer-supported social networks (CSSNs) are becoming important bases of virtual communities, computer-supported cooperative work, and telework. Computer-mediated communication such as electronic mail and computerized conferencing is usually text-based and asynchronous. It has limited social presence, and on-line communications are often more uninhibited, …
Network Capital: Emigration from Hong Kong
In this paper, we argue that it would be fruitful to regard personal networks as a form of capital capable of generating economic returns by drawing on our research findings on the recent wave of emigration from Hong Kong. By putting network capital on a par with economic and cultural capital, we seek to identify its distinctive features in terms of institutionalization, capacity, moral economy, and processes of conversion and reproduction. In su…
Can women's social networks migrate
Gendered structural barriers to job attainment for skilled Chinese emigrants in Canada
Our study examines the career achievements of 50 professional couples that immigrated from China to Canada. We compare their job attainment when they left China with that years after immigration. We apply concepts of human capital and institutional theory to understand why the job status of the majority drops after immigrating. Human capital concepts account for most career advancement in China. Human capital theory falls short in explaining the …
Working Daughters of Hong Kong: Filial Piety or Power in the Family
Working Daughters in the Hong Kong Chinese Family: Female Filial Piety or A Transformation in the Family Power Structure
Journal Article Working Daughters in the Hong Kong Chinese Family: Female Filial Piety or A Transformation in the Family Power Structure? Get access Janet W. Salaff Janet W. Salaff University of Toronto Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 9, Issue 4, Summer 1976, Pages 439–465, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/9.4.439 Published: 01 July 1976
Social Network Approach to Understand the Ethnic Economy: A Theoretical Discourse1
Cluster Introduction 1: Subethnicity in the Chinese Diaspora 2
The Gendered Social Organization of Migration as Work
Borrowing concepts from the study of work and occupations as well as gender studies, this paper considers the social organization of migration as gendered work. It explores women's and men's contribution to two aspects of family resources needed to migrate: (a) jobs and the non-market exchanges involved in obtaining work, and (b) the support of kin. The data come from a study of 30 emigrant and non-emigrant families representing three social clas…
Mortality decline in the people's Republic of China and the United States
From mortality levels in 1949 similar to those in the United States during the nineteenth century, China claims to have reduced mortality to levels comparable to those in the United States 30 years ago. The rapidity of this recent transition and its fragmentary statistical verification have made analysts doubt these claims. The purpose of this paper is to assess medical evidence which indicates that the rate of mortality decline has been rapid in…
The Emerging Conjugal Relationship in the People's Republic of China
The shift from a joint toward a conjugal family structure is a focal point of social change in modern China. Some of the changes in family form that have taken place in the Peoples Republic since 1949 are described based on press accounts and to a larger extent on interviews with Chinese families who were formerly residents. The leadership of the Peoples Republic of China largely through specific attention to mate selection and marital arrangemen…
Competing interests: Toronto's Chinese immigrant associations and the politics of multiculturalism
Social service agencies and advocacy groups have played an integral role in mediating between the Asian ethnic populations. In the Canadian institutional setting, associations become a means of political expression. Canada incorporates new immigrants into its national institutions. However, these neo‐liberal institutions and policies have not redressed major problems arising in the settlement process. Under Canada's discourse of enlightened multi…
The status of unmarried Hong Kong women and the social factors contributing to their delayed marriage
The Dixon model, which assesses the factors responsible for a rise in marriage age, has been applied to a number of Hong Kong women, aged from 20 to 24 in 1973, who were interviewed in depth. Four of them have delayed marriage due to the unavailability of mates, in particular the new marriage style and difficulty of locating a companionable mate. For 21 marriage was not economically feasible. Three anticipated they would lose too many opportuniti…
State and Family in Singapore: Restructuring an Industrial Society
Family Size Intentions and Socioeconomic Status in Singapore, 1974-1981
Singapore has in recent years undergone a tremendous fertility decline that has affected couples at all socioeconomic levels. Using representative biographical sketches, this article presents the results of a panel study on family planning intentions and behavior among 45 young Chinese Singaporean couples. The couples, ranked as average or affluent working-class, or middle-class, were first interviewed in 1974-76 and were followed up in 1981. The…
Institutionalized motivation for fertility limitation in China
After initial misgivings based on orthodox Marxist ideology regarding population control, the People's Republic of China officially came out in favour of population limitation. The government denies the dire Malthusian prophecy that population will outstrip China's supply of food and natural resources. Instead it supports population limitation to ease the costs of economic growth, which under Chinese conditions requires a strong labour force and …
Mortality decline in the people's Republic of China and the United States
From mortality levels in 1949 similar to those in the United States during the nineteenth century, China claims to have reduced mortality to levels comparable to those in the United States 30 years ago. The rapidity of this recent transition and its fragmentary statistical verification have made analysts doubt these claims. The purpose of this paper is to assess medical evidence which indicates that the rate of mortality decline has been rapid in…
The Emerging Conjugal Relationship in the People's Republic of China
The shift from a joint toward a conjugal family structure is a focal point of social change in modern China. Some of the changes in family form that have taken place in the Peoples Republic since 1949 are described based on press accounts and to a larger extent on interviews with Chinese families who were formerly residents. The leadership of the Peoples Republic of China largely through specific attention to mate selection and marital arrangemen…
China's Population Struggle: Demographic Decisions of the People's Republic, 1949-1969
Modern times’ in Hong Kong
“Full house” reads the box office sign at the Oriental Theatre as Charlie Chaplin's film Modern Times continues its popular run in Hong Kong. In one of the ironies of Hong Kong life, this classic that won popularity in the West for its nose-thumbing at the inhumanities of capitalist industrial organization now appeals to the Chinese audience for the same reasons—the relief, through humor, of Western-caused industrial pressures. I saw the film wit…
Women in Chinese Society
Working Daughters in the Hong Kong Chinese Family: Female Filial Piety or A Transformation in the Family Power Structure
Journal Article Working Daughters in the Hong Kong Chinese Family: Female Filial Piety or A Transformation in the Family Power Structure? Get access Janet W. Salaff Janet W. Salaff University of Toronto Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 9, Issue 4, Summer 1976, Pages 439–465, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/9.4.439 Published: 01 July 1976
The status of unmarried Hong Kong women and the social factors contributing to their delayed marriage
The Dixon model, which assesses the factors responsible for a rise in marriage age, has been applied to a number of Hong Kong women, aged from 20 to 24 in 1973, who were interviewed in depth. Four of them have delayed marriage due to the unavailability of mates, in particular the new marriage style and difficulty of locating a companionable mate. For 21 marriage was not economically feasible. Three anticipated they would lose too many opportuniti…
An Exploratory Study on the Effectiveness of Population Disincentives in Preventing Higher-order Births in Singapore
The Singapore population disincentive program consists of 10 parts: 1) increasing accouchement fees in Government hospitals with each additional child; 2) no paid maternity leave for 3rd or subsequent child; 3) no income tax relief to 4th or subsequent child; 4) no priority to large families for subsidized housing; 5) only families with less than 3 children are eligible to sublet rooms; 6) lower priority for choice of primary school for children …
Feminism and Socialism in China
The Family in Asia
Women in Soviet Society: Equality, Development and Social Change
Hong Kong: Stability and Change
Working daughters of Hong Kong: Filial Piety or Power in the Family?
Working Daughters of Hong Kong: Filial Piety or Power in the Family
Working Women in Japan: Discrimination, Resistance, and Reform
The Politics of Marriage in Contemporary China
Hong Kong
Working Daughters of Hong Kong. Filial Piety or Power in the Family
Working Daughters of Hong Kong: Filial Piety or Power in the Family
Political Women in Japan: The Search for a Place in Political Life
Working Daughters of Hong Kong: Filial Piety or Power in the Family
Chinese Women in Development: The Unfinished Revolution
Lives: Chinese Working Women
The Social Sciences and Fieldwork in China: Views from the Field
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