Rosaria Franco
Biographic Data
| ID | 3890617 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rosaria Franco |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rosaria |
| FAMILY NAME | Franco |
| SIGNATURE | FRANCO R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham Ningbo China |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1326-8116 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Alien’ Colonial Law, Anglo–Chinese Power Relations, and the End of the Hong Kong Refugee Regime
This article examines the end of the ‘Hong Kong refugee regime’, a by-product of the open borders between Hong Kong and China agreed in several nineteenth-century trade treaties between the British Empire and the Qing Empire. From 1854 to 1950, this refugee regime enabled the British colonial government of Hong Kong to extract human and material resources from China without establishing indisputable legal ‘rights’ of entry and settlement for all …
Women missionaries, Chinese girls, and Protestant empire-building
In the 1930s, The Salvation Army’s women missionaries (Salvationists) ran an industrial home for young Chinese abused bondservants (mui tsai), offenders, and prostitutes in Hong Kong. The colonial Government funded it to demonstrate its compliance with imperial anti-slavery directives and the League of Nations’ doctrine of trusteeship. Hong Kong’s colonial elites also subsidised it. In turn, while integrating the girls into the British Empire, th…
No Happy Childhood Behind the Iron Curtain
This article reconstructs the postwar Anglo–Soviet dispute within the League of Red Cross Societies over unaccompanied children from the Baltic states, whose postwar Soviet citizenship Britain contested. It argues that the resolution of this dispute was prevented by the novel Cold War view, common to both the British and the Soviet governments, that children socialised by ideological enemies were future enemies. With reference to Jane Burbank and…
Infant Welfare, Family Planning, and Population Policy in Hong Kong
In the twentieth century Hong Kong’s population expanded dramatically. Yet, it was only after one million refugees from China settled in the 1950s that the colonial Government undertook population control. Imposing immigration restrictions was straightforward, but curbing unprecedented natural growth proved problematic. On the one side, supporting family planning risked alienating pro-life Catholic organizations, many channelling necessary relief…
Stalin’s humanitarian government
Informed by Didier Fassin’s concept of humanitarian government, this article reveals a distinct pattern of secret care provisions imposed under Stalin by the secret police and its successor agencies (NKVD, MVD) first to the peasant children displaced by class war and the famine of 1932–33, and then to the children made homeless by the Great Terror and the 1940s’ national deportations. The article also identifies the under-researched reception cen…
Chinese Refugee Children and Empires
With the support of new sources from British and Hong Kong archives, this study casts new light on the post-war international adoptions of Chinese refugee children in the British colony of Hong Kong. It argues that while children were ‘saved’ and found families overseas, they were also used as pawns in a bigger political game. A way to delegate welfare for the Hong Kong government, a symbolic humanitarian concession vis-à-vis a strict anti-immigr…
Paul Hagenloh, Stalin’s Police
Infant Welfare, Family Planning, and Population Policy in Hong Kong
In the twentieth century Hong Kong’s population expanded dramatically. Yet, it was only after one million refugees from China settled in the 1950s that the colonial Government undertook population control. Imposing immigration restrictions was straightforward, but curbing unprecedented natural growth proved problematic. On the one side, supporting family planning risked alienating pro-life Catholic organizations, many channelling necessary relief…
Paul Hagenloh, Stalin’s Police
Stalin’s humanitarian government
Informed by Didier Fassin’s concept of humanitarian government, this article reveals a distinct pattern of secret care provisions imposed under Stalin by the secret police and its successor agencies (NKVD, MVD) first to the peasant children displaced by class war and the famine of 1932–33, and then to the children made homeless by the Great Terror and the 1940s’ national deportations. The article also identifies the under-researched reception cen…
Chinese Refugee Children and Empires
With the support of new sources from British and Hong Kong archives, this study casts new light on the post-war international adoptions of Chinese refugee children in the British colony of Hong Kong. It argues that while children were ‘saved’ and found families overseas, they were also used as pawns in a bigger political game. A way to delegate welfare for the Hong Kong government, a symbolic humanitarian concession vis-à-vis a strict anti-immigr…
Infant Welfare, Family Planning, and Population Policy in Hong Kong
In the twentieth century Hong Kong’s population expanded dramatically. Yet, it was only after one million refugees from China settled in the 1950s that the colonial Government undertook population control. Imposing immigration restrictions was straightforward, but curbing unprecedented natural growth proved problematic. On the one side, supporting family planning risked alienating pro-life Catholic organizations, many channelling necessary relief…
No Happy Childhood Behind the Iron Curtain
This article reconstructs the postwar Anglo–Soviet dispute within the League of Red Cross Societies over unaccompanied children from the Baltic states, whose postwar Soviet citizenship Britain contested. It argues that the resolution of this dispute was prevented by the novel Cold War view, common to both the British and the Soviet governments, that children socialised by ideological enemies were future enemies. With reference to Jane Burbank and…
Women missionaries, Chinese girls, and Protestant empire-building
In the 1930s, The Salvation Army’s women missionaries (Salvationists) ran an industrial home for young Chinese abused bondservants (mui tsai), offenders, and prostitutes in Hong Kong. The colonial Government funded it to demonstrate its compliance with imperial anti-slavery directives and the League of Nations’ doctrine of trusteeship. Hong Kong’s colonial elites also subsidised it. In turn, while integrating the girls into the British Empire, th…
Alien’ Colonial Law, Anglo–Chinese Power Relations, and the End of the Hong Kong Refugee Regime
This article examines the end of the ‘Hong Kong refugee regime’, a by-product of the open borders between Hong Kong and China agreed in several nineteenth-century trade treaties between the British Empire and the Qing Empire. From 1854 to 1950, this refugee regime enabled the British colonial government of Hong Kong to extract human and material resources from China without establishing indisputable legal ‘rights’ of entry and settlement for all …
Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Government (linguistics (4 works) · History (4 works) · Immigration (4 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Economic history (3 works) · European history and politics (3 works) · History (3 works)