Maggy Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3580878 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maggy Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maggy |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8465-062X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 138 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
China and the Internationalisation of the Sociology of Contemporary Work and Employment
The China e-Special Issue brings together 11 articles on the sociology of contemporary work and employment in China which have been published in WES in the past two decades, highlighting the increasing frequency of submissions, and also reflecting the diversity, complexity and plurality of work and employment in the region. The foci of debates include the changing fault lines of work and employment; the changing relationships between state, emplo…
The externalization of border control in the global South
Existing scholarship highlights the novel approaches and the capacity of northern states to control mass mobility by externalizing the border; outsource their control apparatus to migrant sending and transit countries; process and detain irregular arrivals in offshore locations; and expand the reach of sovereign powers extraterritorially. Significantly, the processes and outcomes of externalization are neither homogeneous nor uncontested. This ar…
Protests in Hong Kong during the Covid-19 pandemic
Beyond the 'All Seeing Eye
This paper draws on ethnographic data about Filipino migrant domestic workers' perceptions of and responses to the use of surveillance cameras in the home to intervene in recent debates about surveillance, care and social control. On the one hand, our participants disclose what following Gary Marx (1981) we refer to as the gendered ironies of care and control. Digital surveillance practices in the home not only produce tactics for evading control…
From Expatriates to New Cosmopolitans? Female Transnational Professionals in Hong Kong
This chapter examines how the agency of transnational professional migrants is shaped by the global structures of opportunities, the economic and socio-political processes of particular places, and by the changing cultural discourses of migration. By drawing on the literature on transnational migration and social theory and on interviews with female ‘expatriates’ who arrived in Hong Kong between the 1970s and 2010s, Lee and Wong propose a typolog…
One world is not enough
The paper is based on original empirical research into the lifestyle migration of European migrants, primarily British, to Thailand and Malaysia, and of Hong Kong Chinese migrants to Mainland China. We combine strong structuration theory (SST) with Heideggerian phenomenology to develop a distinctive approach to the interplay between social structures and the lived experience of migrants. The approach enables a rich engagement with the subjectivit…
Race, Gender, and Surveillance of Migrant Domestic Workers in Asia
This chapter provides a transnational analysis of the ways in which migrant workers are placed at the sharp end of migration control based on gendered and racialized notions of domestic labour. Migrant women from the Philippines to Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia are routinely subjected to an extensive and diffuse process of surveillance and social sorting beyond the geographic border and criminal justice system. In their country of origin, women’s mo…
Sex trafficking and control
This essay examines the key characteristics and contradictions of the global problem of sex trafficking and the attendant policy approaches of trafficking control and protection. By drawing on examples from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Asia, the essay examines the competing assumptions of sex work and the problem of sex trafficking. The author interrogates the ways in which the dominant discourse has facilitated and justified the pu…
Doing criminology on media and crime in Asia
This article draws from recent critiques on media criminology in the North. In doing so, we are interested in whether and how these critiques figure in relation to those doing criminology in the South, in particular in Asia. We first describe why media criminology has yet to develop as an area of study in its own right and what lessons we might draw from the development of media criminology in the Northern context. We then examine the contours of…
Crime, Media, Culture
Social Media in Rural China
for inviting me to present and receive feedback on
Francis RD Birthplace, Migration and Crime. The Australian Experience
Book Review of Francis RD's Birthplace, Migration and Crime. The Australian Experience. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Gendered discipline and protective custody of trafficking victims in Asia
In many parts of Asia, critics have noted the common but hitherto under-researched practices of detaining victims of human trafficking in semi-carceral institutions or ‘shelters’, in the name of victim protection and rescue. Although the formal justification for immigration detention and ‘protective custody’ may be different, there are clear parallels between the experience of trafficking victims in semi-carceral institutions and what Kalhan has …
Human Trafficking
Doing criminology from the periphery
In a recent article in Theoretical Criminology, Katja Franko Aas (2012: 12) reflects on the geopolitical imbalances and ‘situatedness’ of criminological theory and the pervasive North–South divide in knowledge production. Notwithstanding the growing awareness of global connectedness in transnational and comparative criminology and engagement with the legacies of imperialism and (post-)colonialism in recent years (see, for example, Agozino, 2003; …
Doing criminological ethnography in China
This article reflects on the emerging criminological research enterprise in China. We provide a brief overview on the nature of criminological knowledge production in China, particularly in relation to practical and political constraints. We contend that while there are distinct challenges associated with doing criminology in China, there are also new possibilities for alternative methodologies and critical analyses to push the boundaries of admi…
A letter from Bangladesh – Developing gender-responsive community policing in Bangladesh
Trafficking and Global Crime Control
This authoritative work examines key issues and debates on human trafficking, drawing on theoretical, historical and comparative material to inform the discussion of major trends
Chinese Human Smuggling Organizations—Families, Social Networks, and Cultural Imperatives
Globalization, ethnicity and racism
Policing Chinese Migrant Sex Workers in Hong Kong
This article examines the nature of control of Chinese unwanted migrants. In contrast to much existing research work on the patterns and control of Chinese unauthorised migration to the West, the focus here is on the regulation of immigration violators who routinely move back and forth across the border between the People’s Republic of China and the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong. Through an examination of official statistics, relevan…
Women's Imprisonment as a Mechanism of Migration Control in Hong Kong
Despite its low crime rate, Hong Kong has a higher imprisonment rate compared with the rest of Asia and the West, and the highest known proportion of female prisoners in the world. At the heart of this prison crisis is the routine use of imprisonment as a mechanism of migration control, to keep out and immobilize those whom Bauman has termed 'vagabonds' in an increasingly stratified global order. This article examines the use of imprisonment and …
Human trade and the criminalization of irregular migration
Policing by Degrees
The British Police was established as an artisan organization that would develop its own leaders. This fostered continuous debate on the quality of leadership and proposals for lateral entry, which elicited sustained opposition from the Police Federation and politicians. By the 1960s, intense pressures to change led to an emphasis on recruiting graduates and support for university education. The Essex Police decided to send officers to university…
Chinese migrant women and families in britain
Chinese migrant women and families in britain
Globalization, ethnicity and racism
One world is not enough
The paper is based on original empirical research into the lifestyle migration of European migrants, primarily British, to Thailand and Malaysia, and of Hong Kong Chinese migrants to Mainland China. We combine strong structuration theory (SST) with Heideggerian phenomenology to develop a distinctive approach to the interplay between social structures and the lived experience of migrants. The approach enables a rich engagement with the subjectivit…
Doing criminology from the periphery
In a recent article in Theoretical Criminology, Katja Franko Aas (2012: 12) reflects on the geopolitical imbalances and ‘situatedness’ of criminological theory and the pervasive North–South divide in knowledge production. Notwithstanding the growing awareness of global connectedness in transnational and comparative criminology and engagement with the legacies of imperialism and (post-)colonialism in recent years (see, for example, Agozino, 2003; …
Beyond the 'All Seeing Eye
This paper draws on ethnographic data about Filipino migrant domestic workers' perceptions of and responses to the use of surveillance cameras in the home to intervene in recent debates about surveillance, care and social control. On the one hand, our participants disclose what following Gary Marx (1981) we refer to as the gendered ironies of care and control. Digital surveillance practices in the home not only produce tactics for evading control…
Gendered discipline and protective custody of trafficking victims in Asia
In many parts of Asia, critics have noted the common but hitherto under-researched practices of detaining victims of human trafficking in semi-carceral institutions or ‘shelters’, in the name of victim protection and rescue. Although the formal justification for immigration detention and ‘protective custody’ may be different, there are clear parallels between the experience of trafficking victims in semi-carceral institutions and what Kalhan has …
Doing criminological ethnography in China
This article reflects on the emerging criminological research enterprise in China. We provide a brief overview on the nature of criminological knowledge production in China, particularly in relation to practical and political constraints. We contend that while there are distinct challenges associated with doing criminology in China, there are also new possibilities for alternative methodologies and critical analyses to push the boundaries of admi…
Women's Imprisonment as a Mechanism of Migration Control in Hong Kong
Despite its low crime rate, Hong Kong has a higher imprisonment rate compared with the rest of Asia and the West, and the highest known proportion of female prisoners in the world. At the heart of this prison crisis is the routine use of imprisonment as a mechanism of migration control, to keep out and immobilize those whom Bauman has termed 'vagabonds' in an increasingly stratified global order. This article examines the use of imprisonment and …
Protests in Hong Kong during the Covid-19 pandemic
Policing Chinese Migrant Sex Workers in Hong Kong
This article examines the nature of control of Chinese unwanted migrants. In contrast to much existing research work on the patterns and control of Chinese unauthorised migration to the West, the focus here is on the regulation of immigration violators who routinely move back and forth across the border between the People’s Republic of China and the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong. Through an examination of official statistics, relevan…
The externalization of border control in the global South
Existing scholarship highlights the novel approaches and the capacity of northern states to control mass mobility by externalizing the border; outsource their control apparatus to migrant sending and transit countries; process and detain irregular arrivals in offshore locations; and expand the reach of sovereign powers extraterritorially. Significantly, the processes and outcomes of externalization are neither homogeneous nor uncontested. This ar…
Social Media in Rural China
for inviting me to present and receive feedback on
Chinese Human Smuggling Organizations—Families, Social Networks, and Cultural Imperatives
Policing by Degrees
The British Police was established as an artisan organization that would develop its own leaders. This fostered continuous debate on the quality of leadership and proposals for lateral entry, which elicited sustained opposition from the Police Federation and politicians. By the 1960s, intense pressures to change led to an emphasis on recruiting graduates and support for university education. The Essex Police decided to send officers to university…
China and the Internationalisation of the Sociology of Contemporary Work and Employment
The China e-Special Issue brings together 11 articles on the sociology of contemporary work and employment in China which have been published in WES in the past two decades, highlighting the increasing frequency of submissions, and also reflecting the diversity, complexity and plurality of work and employment in the region. The foci of debates include the changing fault lines of work and employment; the changing relationships between state, emplo…
Doing criminology on media and crime in Asia
This article draws from recent critiques on media criminology in the North. In doing so, we are interested in whether and how these critiques figure in relation to those doing criminology in the South, in particular in Asia. We first describe why media criminology has yet to develop as an area of study in its own right and what lessons we might draw from the development of media criminology in the Northern context. We then examine the contours of…
Human trade and the criminalization of irregular migration
Admonestation policière et justice des mineurs
Cet article s'appuie sur une enquête triennale sur l'admonestation policière et la justice des mineurs en Angleterre et Galles. Il examine le développement des modèles d'admonestation et de coopération entre institutions dans un contexte politique et théorique de réforme de la justice des mineurs. En particulier, il s'interroge sur les liens entre admonestation et a) les autres priorités policières, b) les changements de la notion d'Etat-providen…
Admonestation policière et justice des mineurs
Cet article s'appuie sur une enquête triennale sur l'admonestation policière et la justice des mineurs en Angleterre et Galles. Il examine le développement des modèles d'admonestation et de coopération entre institutions dans un contexte politique et théorique de réforme de la justice des mineurs. En particulier, il s'interroge sur les liens entre admonestation et a) les autres priorités policières, b) les changements de la notion d'Etat-providen…
Mapping Probation Practice with Drug Using Offenders
Research work was carried out in a probation service area, exploring probation practice with drug‐using offenders and looking at the service's response to an initiative undertaken on behalf of drug agencies. A questionnaire survey generated estimates of time probation officers spent in a working week on cases of offenders who were recognised as having a drug problem. As regards partnership between the probation service and drug agencies, there we…
Across the Public-Private Divide? Private Policing, Grey Intelligence and Civil Actions in Local Drugs Control
381 M. Lee1 Across the Public-Private Divide? Private Policing, Grey Intelligence and Civil Actions in Local Drugs Control It is increasingly apparent that sections of the Conservative government have a vision of a mixed economy of criminal justice which necessitates the state absolving itself of its tradi- tional role as the natural provider of law and order. McLaughlin and Muncie (1994) (I)t is clear that public and private domains relate to ea…
Chinese migrant women and families in britain
Policing by Degrees
The British Police was established as an artisan organization that would develop its own leaders. This fostered continuous debate on the quality of leadership and proposals for lateral entry, which elicited sustained opposition from the Police Federation and politicians. By the 1960s, intense pressures to change led to an emphasis on recruiting graduates and support for university education. The Essex Police decided to send officers to university…
Human trade and the criminalization of irregular migration
Women's Imprisonment as a Mechanism of Migration Control in Hong Kong
Despite its low crime rate, Hong Kong has a higher imprisonment rate compared with the rest of Asia and the West, and the highest known proportion of female prisoners in the world. At the heart of this prison crisis is the routine use of imprisonment as a mechanism of migration control, to keep out and immobilize those whom Bauman has termed 'vagabonds' in an increasingly stratified global order. This article examines the use of imprisonment and …
Globalization, ethnicity and racism
Policing Chinese Migrant Sex Workers in Hong Kong
This article examines the nature of control of Chinese unwanted migrants. In contrast to much existing research work on the patterns and control of Chinese unauthorised migration to the West, the focus here is on the regulation of immigration violators who routinely move back and forth across the border between the People’s Republic of China and the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong. Through an examination of official statistics, relevan…
Chinese Human Smuggling Organizations—Families, Social Networks, and Cultural Imperatives
Trafficking and Global Crime Control
This authoritative work examines key issues and debates on human trafficking, drawing on theoretical, historical and comparative material to inform the discussion of major trends
A letter from Bangladesh – Developing gender-responsive community policing in Bangladesh
Human Trafficking
Doing criminology from the periphery
In a recent article in Theoretical Criminology, Katja Franko Aas (2012: 12) reflects on the geopolitical imbalances and ‘situatedness’ of criminological theory and the pervasive North–South divide in knowledge production. Notwithstanding the growing awareness of global connectedness in transnational and comparative criminology and engagement with the legacies of imperialism and (post-)colonialism in recent years (see, for example, Agozino, 2003; …
Doing criminological ethnography in China
This article reflects on the emerging criminological research enterprise in China. We provide a brief overview on the nature of criminological knowledge production in China, particularly in relation to practical and political constraints. We contend that while there are distinct challenges associated with doing criminology in China, there are also new possibilities for alternative methodologies and critical analyses to push the boundaries of admi…
Gendered discipline and protective custody of trafficking victims in Asia
In many parts of Asia, critics have noted the common but hitherto under-researched practices of detaining victims of human trafficking in semi-carceral institutions or ‘shelters’, in the name of victim protection and rescue. Although the formal justification for immigration detention and ‘protective custody’ may be different, there are clear parallels between the experience of trafficking victims in semi-carceral institutions and what Kalhan has …
Francis RD Birthplace, Migration and Crime. The Australian Experience
Book Review of Francis RD's Birthplace, Migration and Crime. The Australian Experience. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Social Media in Rural China
for inviting me to present and receive feedback on
Sex trafficking and control
This essay examines the key characteristics and contradictions of the global problem of sex trafficking and the attendant policy approaches of trafficking control and protection. By drawing on examples from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Asia, the essay examines the competing assumptions of sex work and the problem of sex trafficking. The author interrogates the ways in which the dominant discourse has facilitated and justified the pu…
Doing criminology on media and crime in Asia
This article draws from recent critiques on media criminology in the North. In doing so, we are interested in whether and how these critiques figure in relation to those doing criminology in the South, in particular in Asia. We first describe why media criminology has yet to develop as an area of study in its own right and what lessons we might draw from the development of media criminology in the Northern context. We then examine the contours of…
Crime, Media, Culture
Race, Gender, and Surveillance of Migrant Domestic Workers in Asia
This chapter provides a transnational analysis of the ways in which migrant workers are placed at the sharp end of migration control based on gendered and racialized notions of domestic labour. Migrant women from the Philippines to Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia are routinely subjected to an extensive and diffuse process of surveillance and social sorting beyond the geographic border and criminal justice system. In their country of origin, women’s mo…
From Expatriates to New Cosmopolitans? Female Transnational Professionals in Hong Kong
This chapter examines how the agency of transnational professional migrants is shaped by the global structures of opportunities, the economic and socio-political processes of particular places, and by the changing cultural discourses of migration. By drawing on the literature on transnational migration and social theory and on interviews with female ‘expatriates’ who arrived in Hong Kong between the 1970s and 2010s, Lee and Wong propose a typolog…
One world is not enough
The paper is based on original empirical research into the lifestyle migration of European migrants, primarily British, to Thailand and Malaysia, and of Hong Kong Chinese migrants to Mainland China. We combine strong structuration theory (SST) with Heideggerian phenomenology to develop a distinctive approach to the interplay between social structures and the lived experience of migrants. The approach enables a rich engagement with the subjectivit…
Protests in Hong Kong during the Covid-19 pandemic
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