Lucia Lo
Biographic Data
| ID | 187282 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucia Lo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucia |
| FAMILY NAME | Lo |
| SIGNATURE | LO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 184 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Transculturality, Anti-Asian Racism and Student Mobility: A Case Study of Chinese International Student Experiences during the Covid-19 Pandemic1
The breakout and spread of the SARS-COV-2/COVID-19 virus in early 2020 caused a drastic increase in blatant racism and microaggressions against Asians/people of Asian descent. The rise of anti-Asian racism can be viewed as a repeat of a century-long narrative of Yellow Peril against Asian newcomers in western societies. While some reports/studies explained the phenomenon with the hegemony of race relations, it is imperative to examine the experie…
International students in China: Regional Distribution and Macro-Influencing Factors
As a key player in intellectual migration, international students are affected by various micro-, meso- and macro-level factors when making their study destination choice. Existing literature on this topic mostly adopts a qualitative approach and limits to investigations of country choice. By applying exploratory spatial data analysis and spatial econometric modelling on a set of panel data, this study instead focuses on macro-level analyses of i…
Introduction: The Intellectual Migration Analytics
The term 'intellectual migration' initially referred to the exodus of European scientists and other professionals to the U.S. in the first half of the twentieth century. Academic and policy debates around issues of 'brain drain', 'brain gain', and 'brain circulation' in recent decades have intensified the usage of this term. A 2015 paper first attempted conceptualising Intellectual Migration as an analytical framework that encompasses a migration…
Intellectual capital and student mobility
This paper advances the conceptualisation and application of intellectual capital, a key concept in the intellectual migration framework, to understand international student mobility. The intellectual migration framework contends that higher-education and highly-skilled migrants acquire, upgrade and utilise intellectual capital for upward career and social mobility. This paper argues that intellectual capital is not the sum of different forms of …
Students on the move? Intellectual migration and international student mobility
International student mobility, taking place within the framework of globalisation, internationalisation and transnationalism, has attained much attention. This paper adopts the Intellectual Migration framework to further our understanding of mobility regarding international higher education. It simultaneously studies China-born students in both China and North America to empirically examine the propensity for student mobility across national bor…
Intellectual migration: Considering China
The ‘global race for talent’ has drawn immense attention from academics, policy-makers and the media. China is on both sides of the race. On the one hand, rapid economic growth has created the opportunity for many affluent and middle-class families to send their children abroad for higher education while stimulating intense internal migration for education and/or career opportunities. On the other hand, to affirm its (re-)emergence as an economic…
From Urban Enclave to Ethnic Suburb: New Asian Communities in Pacific Rim Countries
From Urban Enclave to Ethnic Suburb focuses on the migration, settlement, and adaptation of Chinese and other Asian immigrants and their impacts on the transformation of metropolitan areas in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. These stories of the interactivity of Asian "people and place" in four nation-states are framed within the larger context of spatial and social patterns, migration, acculturation/assimilation, and racial…
Highly‐skilled Migration from China and India to Canada and the United States
Using publicly available data, this article aims to understand how immigration policies in Canada and the United States have affected the flow and utilization of highly‐skilled migrants from China and India. Reviewing existing literature on the policies about, and utilization of, human capital among highly‐skilled migrants, and describing the policy contexts in both receiving countries, we present detailed empirical evidence to show that in spite…
T he embeddedness of bank branch networks in immigrant gateways
Employing the concepts of embeddedness and ethnic assets, and using a mixed methods approach of in‐depth interviews and the mapping of spatial data, this article examines the role of branches of various types of banks in immigrant integration in Vancouver and San Francisco. We find that the mainstream banking sector is less territorially embedded and the ethnic banking sector is more socially embedded, especially in the deployment of ethnic asset…
New Geographies of Migration: A Canada-U.S. Comparison of Highly Skilled Chinese and Indian Migration
This paper aims to understand how highly skilled Chinese and Indian migrants settle in Canada and the US and to speculate on how a changing geo-economic-political order would affect the flow of the highly-skilled migrants. We first lay out the theoretical corners of return migration, discuss the outcome of various immigrant recruitment and integration policies in Canada and the US, and examine their impacts on immigrants' decision to stay in Cana…
The Role of Ethnicity in the Geography of Consumption
Two notable trends in immigrant gateway cities—the growth of immigrant-owned businesses and accelerated ethnic marketing efforts of mainstream firms—raise an interesting research question of how ethnicity interacts with accessibility in the geography of consumption. Given that many immigrants today are better educated and more affluent than their predecessors, and an ethnic business and its mass counterpart can differ little in size and product v…
Ethnicity and utilization of family physicians: A case study of Mainland Chinese immigrants in Toronto, Canada
Global connectivity, local consumption, and Chinese immigrant experience
Immigrant Grocery-Shopping Behavior: Ethnic Identity versus Accessibility
This paper contributes to the ongoing debate in the 'new' economic geography over the dialectic between the cultural and the economic, and in which the study of the geography of consumption is a prime example. The consumer behavior of culturally distinct immigrants is an intriguing and complex economic and cultural inquiry. In this paper we explore the grocery-shopping behavior of suburban middle-class Chinese immigrants in Toronto, where the gro…
Chinese Immigrants in Canada: Their Changing Composition and Economic Performance 1
Using landing records and tax data, this paper examines both the changing composition of the Chinese immigrants in Canada in the past two decades and their levels of economic performance. Our research found that, in addition to a shift in origin, economic immigrants have been on the rise and other classes of immigrants have declined. This has been accompanied by a significant increase in their educational qualifications and proficiency in a Canad…
A political economy approach to understanding the economic incorporation of Chinese sub-ethnic groups
Polish and Somali Entrepreneurship and the Building of Ethnic Economies in Toronto
Polonais et Somaliens à Toronto : la construction d'économies ethniques. Les immigrants polonais et somaliens sont bien différents. Les Polonais sont un groupe d'immigrants plus ancien, peu visible bien qu'installé dans des quartiers spécifiques où il a su bâtir des institutions communautaires ; par contre, les Somaliens, groupe d'arrivée récente, sort nettement moins nombreux et n'ont pas encore bâti de structures institutionnelles spécifiques. …
Economic impacts of immigrants in the Toronto CMA: A tax-benefit analysis
Canadian Urban Landscape Examples ‐ 21 ‘Asian theme’ malls in suburban Toronto: Land use conflict in Richmond Hill
Chinese Immigrants in Canada: Their Changing Composition and Economic Performance 1
Using landing records and tax data, this paper examines both the changing composition of the Chinese immigrants in Canada in the past two decades and their levels of economic performance. Our research found that, in addition to a shift in origin, economic immigrants have been on the rise and other classes of immigrants have declined. This has been accompanied by a significant increase in their educational qualifications and proficiency in a Canad…
Ethnicity and utilization of family physicians: A case study of Mainland Chinese immigrants in Toronto, Canada
Highly‐skilled Migration from China and India to Canada and the United States
Using publicly available data, this article aims to understand how immigration policies in Canada and the United States have affected the flow and utilization of highly‐skilled migrants from China and India. Reviewing existing literature on the policies about, and utilization of, human capital among highly‐skilled migrants, and describing the policy contexts in both receiving countries, we present detailed empirical evidence to show that in spite…
Intellectual migration: Considering China
The ‘global race for talent’ has drawn immense attention from academics, policy-makers and the media. China is on both sides of the race. On the one hand, rapid economic growth has created the opportunity for many affluent and middle-class families to send their children abroad for higher education while stimulating intense internal migration for education and/or career opportunities. On the other hand, to affirm its (re-)emergence as an economic…
From Urban Enclave to Ethnic Suburb: New Asian Communities in Pacific Rim Countries
From Urban Enclave to Ethnic Suburb focuses on the migration, settlement, and adaptation of Chinese and other Asian immigrants and their impacts on the transformation of metropolitan areas in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. These stories of the interactivity of Asian "people and place" in four nation-states are framed within the larger context of spatial and social patterns, migration, acculturation/assimilation, and racial…
Introduction: The Intellectual Migration Analytics
The term 'intellectual migration' initially referred to the exodus of European scientists and other professionals to the U.S. in the first half of the twentieth century. Academic and policy debates around issues of 'brain drain', 'brain gain', and 'brain circulation' in recent decades have intensified the usage of this term. A 2015 paper first attempted conceptualising Intellectual Migration as an analytical framework that encompasses a migration…
Immigrant Grocery-Shopping Behavior: Ethnic Identity versus Accessibility
This paper contributes to the ongoing debate in the 'new' economic geography over the dialectic between the cultural and the economic, and in which the study of the geography of consumption is a prime example. The consumer behavior of culturally distinct immigrants is an intriguing and complex economic and cultural inquiry. In this paper we explore the grocery-shopping behavior of suburban middle-class Chinese immigrants in Toronto, where the gro…
Canadian Urban Landscape Examples ‐ 21 ‘Asian theme’ malls in suburban Toronto: Land use conflict in Richmond Hill
Intellectual capital and student mobility
This paper advances the conceptualisation and application of intellectual capital, a key concept in the intellectual migration framework, to understand international student mobility. The intellectual migration framework contends that higher-education and highly-skilled migrants acquire, upgrade and utilise intellectual capital for upward career and social mobility. This paper argues that intellectual capital is not the sum of different forms of …
The Role of Ethnicity in the Geography of Consumption
Two notable trends in immigrant gateway cities—the growth of immigrant-owned businesses and accelerated ethnic marketing efforts of mainstream firms—raise an interesting research question of how ethnicity interacts with accessibility in the geography of consumption. Given that many immigrants today are better educated and more affluent than their predecessors, and an ethnic business and its mass counterpart can differ little in size and product v…
New Geographies of Migration: A Canada-U.S. Comparison of Highly Skilled Chinese and Indian Migration
This paper aims to understand how highly skilled Chinese and Indian migrants settle in Canada and the US and to speculate on how a changing geo-economic-political order would affect the flow of the highly-skilled migrants. We first lay out the theoretical corners of return migration, discuss the outcome of various immigrant recruitment and integration policies in Canada and the US, and examine their impacts on immigrants' decision to stay in Cana…
Students on the move? Intellectual migration and international student mobility
International student mobility, taking place within the framework of globalisation, internationalisation and transnationalism, has attained much attention. This paper adopts the Intellectual Migration framework to further our understanding of mobility regarding international higher education. It simultaneously studies China-born students in both China and North America to empirically examine the propensity for student mobility across national bor…
Global connectivity, local consumption, and Chinese immigrant experience
Transculturality, Anti-Asian Racism and Student Mobility: A Case Study of Chinese International Student Experiences during the Covid-19 Pandemic1
The breakout and spread of the SARS-COV-2/COVID-19 virus in early 2020 caused a drastic increase in blatant racism and microaggressions against Asians/people of Asian descent. The rise of anti-Asian racism can be viewed as a repeat of a century-long narrative of Yellow Peril against Asian newcomers in western societies. While some reports/studies explained the phenomenon with the hegemony of race relations, it is imperative to examine the experie…
International students in China: Regional Distribution and Macro-Influencing Factors
As a key player in intellectual migration, international students are affected by various micro-, meso- and macro-level factors when making their study destination choice. Existing literature on this topic mostly adopts a qualitative approach and limits to investigations of country choice. By applying exploratory spatial data analysis and spatial econometric modelling on a set of panel data, this study instead focuses on macro-level analyses of i…
T he embeddedness of bank branch networks in immigrant gateways
Employing the concepts of embeddedness and ethnic assets, and using a mixed methods approach of in‐depth interviews and the mapping of spatial data, this article examines the role of branches of various types of banks in immigrant integration in Vancouver and San Francisco. We find that the mainstream banking sector is less territorially embedded and the ethnic banking sector is more socially embedded, especially in the deployment of ethnic asset…
Economic impacts of immigrants in the Toronto CMA: A tax-benefit analysis
Canadian Urban Landscape Examples ‐ 21 ‘Asian theme’ malls in suburban Toronto: Land use conflict in Richmond Hill
Polish and Somali Entrepreneurship and the Building of Ethnic Economies in Toronto
Polonais et Somaliens à Toronto : la construction d'économies ethniques. Les immigrants polonais et somaliens sont bien différents. Les Polonais sont un groupe d'immigrants plus ancien, peu visible bien qu'installé dans des quartiers spécifiques où il a su bâtir des institutions communautaires ; par contre, les Somaliens, groupe d'arrivée récente, sort nettement moins nombreux et n'ont pas encore bâti de structures institutionnelles spécifiques. …
A political economy approach to understanding the economic incorporation of Chinese sub-ethnic groups
Chinese Immigrants in Canada: Their Changing Composition and Economic Performance 1
Using landing records and tax data, this paper examines both the changing composition of the Chinese immigrants in Canada in the past two decades and their levels of economic performance. Our research found that, in addition to a shift in origin, economic immigrants have been on the rise and other classes of immigrants have declined. This has been accompanied by a significant increase in their educational qualifications and proficiency in a Canad…
Global connectivity, local consumption, and Chinese immigrant experience
Immigrant Grocery-Shopping Behavior: Ethnic Identity versus Accessibility
This paper contributes to the ongoing debate in the 'new' economic geography over the dialectic between the cultural and the economic, and in which the study of the geography of consumption is a prime example. The consumer behavior of culturally distinct immigrants is an intriguing and complex economic and cultural inquiry. In this paper we explore the grocery-shopping behavior of suburban middle-class Chinese immigrants in Toronto, where the gro…
Ethnicity and utilization of family physicians: A case study of Mainland Chinese immigrants in Toronto, Canada
The Role of Ethnicity in the Geography of Consumption
Two notable trends in immigrant gateway cities—the growth of immigrant-owned businesses and accelerated ethnic marketing efforts of mainstream firms—raise an interesting research question of how ethnicity interacts with accessibility in the geography of consumption. Given that many immigrants today are better educated and more affluent than their predecessors, and an ethnic business and its mass counterpart can differ little in size and product v…
New Geographies of Migration: A Canada-U.S. Comparison of Highly Skilled Chinese and Indian Migration
This paper aims to understand how highly skilled Chinese and Indian migrants settle in Canada and the US and to speculate on how a changing geo-economic-political order would affect the flow of the highly-skilled migrants. We first lay out the theoretical corners of return migration, discuss the outcome of various immigrant recruitment and integration policies in Canada and the US, and examine their impacts on immigrants' decision to stay in Cana…
T he embeddedness of bank branch networks in immigrant gateways
Employing the concepts of embeddedness and ethnic assets, and using a mixed methods approach of in‐depth interviews and the mapping of spatial data, this article examines the role of branches of various types of banks in immigrant integration in Vancouver and San Francisco. We find that the mainstream banking sector is less territorially embedded and the ethnic banking sector is more socially embedded, especially in the deployment of ethnic asset…
From Urban Enclave to Ethnic Suburb: New Asian Communities in Pacific Rim Countries
From Urban Enclave to Ethnic Suburb focuses on the migration, settlement, and adaptation of Chinese and other Asian immigrants and their impacts on the transformation of metropolitan areas in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. These stories of the interactivity of Asian "people and place" in four nation-states are framed within the larger context of spatial and social patterns, migration, acculturation/assimilation, and racial…
Highly‐skilled Migration from China and India to Canada and the United States
Using publicly available data, this article aims to understand how immigration policies in Canada and the United States have affected the flow and utilization of highly‐skilled migrants from China and India. Reviewing existing literature on the policies about, and utilization of, human capital among highly‐skilled migrants, and describing the policy contexts in both receiving countries, we present detailed empirical evidence to show that in spite…
Intellectual migration: Considering China
The ‘global race for talent’ has drawn immense attention from academics, policy-makers and the media. China is on both sides of the race. On the one hand, rapid economic growth has created the opportunity for many affluent and middle-class families to send their children abroad for higher education while stimulating intense internal migration for education and/or career opportunities. On the other hand, to affirm its (re-)emergence as an economic…
International students in China: Regional Distribution and Macro-Influencing Factors
As a key player in intellectual migration, international students are affected by various micro-, meso- and macro-level factors when making their study destination choice. Existing literature on this topic mostly adopts a qualitative approach and limits to investigations of country choice. By applying exploratory spatial data analysis and spatial econometric modelling on a set of panel data, this study instead focuses on macro-level analyses of i…
Introduction: The Intellectual Migration Analytics
The term 'intellectual migration' initially referred to the exodus of European scientists and other professionals to the U.S. in the first half of the twentieth century. Academic and policy debates around issues of 'brain drain', 'brain gain', and 'brain circulation' in recent decades have intensified the usage of this term. A 2015 paper first attempted conceptualising Intellectual Migration as an analytical framework that encompasses a migration…
Intellectual capital and student mobility
This paper advances the conceptualisation and application of intellectual capital, a key concept in the intellectual migration framework, to understand international student mobility. The intellectual migration framework contends that higher-education and highly-skilled migrants acquire, upgrade and utilise intellectual capital for upward career and social mobility. This paper argues that intellectual capital is not the sum of different forms of …
Students on the move? Intellectual migration and international student mobility
International student mobility, taking place within the framework of globalisation, internationalisation and transnationalism, has attained much attention. This paper adopts the Intellectual Migration framework to further our understanding of mobility regarding international higher education. It simultaneously studies China-born students in both China and North America to empirically examine the propensity for student mobility across national bor…
Transculturality, Anti-Asian Racism and Student Mobility: A Case Study of Chinese International Student Experiences during the Covid-19 Pandemic1
The breakout and spread of the SARS-COV-2/COVID-19 virus in early 2020 caused a drastic increase in blatant racism and microaggressions against Asians/people of Asian descent. The rise of anti-Asian racism can be viewed as a repeat of a century-long narrative of Yellow Peril against Asian newcomers in western societies. While some reports/studies explained the phenomenon with the hegemony of race relations, it is imperative to examine the experie…
Sociology (19 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Geography (12 works) · Immigration (12 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (12 works) · Economic growth (11 works) · Economics (11 works) · Ethnic group (8 works) · Social science (8 works)