Anita Kit Wa Chan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 283823 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Anita Kit Wa Chan |
| PRENOMES | Anita Kit Wa |
| SOBRENOME | Chan |
| ASSINATURA | CHAN A K W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Education University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5805-8948 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 110 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Exploring the Social Lives of Older Long‐Term Hong Kong Immigrants in Australia
While formal social services are crucial for fostering social connections and enhancing well‐being, older long‐term Chinese immigrants often underutilise them. Moreover, the social lives of such immigrants in alternative social settings remain underexplored. This paper examines the social lives of Hong Kong immigrants aged 60 and older in casinos and churches in Australia, where most have lived for over 30 years with at least one child abroad or …
Belonging, student identity and school activity preferences
Students in East Asian locations often obtain high academic results in international high-stakes testing, but lower results on affective aspects of their schooling, such as sense of belonging. These findings indicate the need for more holistic research into children’s lifeworlds, including their experiences of school. In this article, we draw on a survey with 627 Year 4 students in three global cities in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Singapore, an…
Study-to-work transitions of students-turned-migrants
Who intended to leave? Patterns and impacts of Hong Kong's recent wave of migration
During Hong Kong's 2019 political turmoil and the subsequent impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, a rapid rise in turnover rates in certain occupations, such as teachers, medical workers and civil servants, was observed. Some attributed this trend to the increasing rate of emigration. Previous studies have suggested that younger and better‐educated individuals are more likely to emigrate, and that the emigration of a specific group of…
The Quest for Lifestyle
Existing analyses of lifestyle in migration studies have focused on individual, rather than family, aspirations, while studies of Chinese transnational migration have focused on instrumentalism, rather than the quality-of-life factors, driving family migration. Moreover, these two fields of study have tended to center on the privileges of relatively affluent migrants, largely overlooking important familial and economic dimensions for middle- and …
Uncovering the Challenges and Needs of Chinese Adoptive Parents in Hong Kong
Adoptive parenting is a lifelong process. Adoptive parents face unique challenges at different stages of parenting, which require proper recognition, specialised support and sustained services. However, social stigma against infertility and adoption in Asian societies, including Hong Kong, has rendered the lived experiences of adoptive parents almost invisible. To address this knowledge gap, the current qualitative study drew on in‐depth intervie…
Do people feel they belong? Socio-political factors shaping the place attachment of Hong Kong citizens
Hong Kong citizens' sense of belonging has gone through a period of fluctuation during the period of rapid socio-political and legal change since the outbreak of the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement in 2019. This study explored how multiple dimensions of the place attachment of Hong Kong citizens have been shaped by factors associated with these changes. Six socio-political variables were incorporated into the three dimensions of the …
Turning Older Women's Life Stories into Hypermedia
This article discusses our development of a new form of feminist Creative Analytic Practices (CAP) by creating knowledge through interactive video installation and web-based interactive re-storytelling ( https://kimchoi.net/a-story-of-ones-own/ ). Since the 1990s, qualitative social researchers have been developing alternative methods and forms to capture and represent the complexity of lived experiences. Through referencing feminist postconstruc…
Exploring children's out-of-school lifeworlds
Purpose This article reflects on the adaption of Sarah Pink's video re-enactment methodology for exploring children's out-of-school lifeworlds. Design/methodology/approach Video re-enactments originate in the work of Sarah Pink who developed the methodology to study everyday routines, including activities associated with people's energy consumption at home. This article discusses the adaption of this methodology for exploring 9–10-year-old childr…
Gender equality or just more involved fathering? A critical examination of the division of childcare in Hong Kong’s professional middle-class families
The ideals of paternal involvement in childcare have become evermore celebrated in Hong Kong and elsewhere, but are these signs of a new form of gender equality in the family? Based on in-depth interviews with professional middle-class families in Hong Kong, our findings suggest not. Although mothers’ expectations of paternal involvement, privileged class positions and assistance from domestic helpers have contributed to increased father’s engage…
Spatialising domestic practices
How do women manage domestic work spatially? How does that change throughout life and relate to their subjectivities and womanhood? Informed by feminist geographers' concept of 'lived' space and queer studies' concept of disjunctive modernity, this paper spatialises women's domestic practices through examining 43 older Hong Kong women's life stories on domesticity. Hong Kong women, since childhood, have creatively employed temporal-spatial strate…
Negotiating Masculinity in a Post-Socialist Society
Occupational gender inequalities are an important sociological concern. Studies on men in female-dominated occupations, such as nursing, have offered rich insights to advance our understanding of gender dynamics in contemporary society. However, current theoretical and empirical accounts have been mostly dominated by Westernized discussions. Utilizing insights from critical studies on men and masculinities, alongside Chinese masculinities studies…
Hong Kong’s new wave of migration
With a recent surge in the outward movement of the population, a new wave of emigration has been suggested to have started in Hong Kong. It is speculated that recent socio-political changes in Hong Kong may have contributed to this phenomenon. Therefore, five socio-political variables-mobility, sense of place, trust and confidence in the law and the legal system, global citizenship, and perception of inequality-are employed in this study as propo…
Transnational Familyhood and Migration Strategies among Parachute Kids-turned-Parents from Hong Kong
The impact of separation on children’s well-being and family relations has attracted growing attention in the study of transnational families, but little is known about its continued effect on life-course transitions and pathways. Focussing on 25 returnee parents who as “parachute kids” had lived away from their families in Hong Kong, this study explores how their prior experiences of family separation affect how these parents plan for the emigra…
Lifeworlds of nine- and ten-year-old children
There has been much discussion about the high performance of East Asian students in international high stakes testing, but little attention has been paid to their lifeworlds beyond school. In this article we explore findings from a survey of 627 Year 4 children (nine and ten years old) in three global cities (Hong Kong, Singapore, and Melbourne), focusing on their out-of-school activities as one aspect of their lifeworlds. The findings indicate t…
Mobility, belongingness and schooling experiences of Chinese cross-border students
The disappearance of community, work and everyday life in late capitalism
Hong Kong has one of the least affordable housing markets in the world, but little is known about its housing advertisements, which constitute important discourses that shape the cultural ideal of homeownership. In many ways, Hong Kong’s property market represents that of other ‘global cities’, which are important nodes of global culture and capital flows. How do private property developers market housing in this context, where the nature of hous…
Investigating the differential mobility experiences of Chinese cross-border students
Recent migration studies have adopted the lens of mobility to examine the stratifying effects of border policies, but few investigate the differential mobility of migrant families and children. This paper aims to contribute to the migration literature by considering the interplay between border policies, family configurations, and differential mobility. We apply the lens of differential mobility to the experiences of Chinese cross-border pupils –…
Contextualising the career pathways of women principals in Hong Kong
The fields of gender and educational leadership have been enriched recently by analyses of national case studies from non-western contexts. By contextualising women’s career development, these studies highlight the importance of including experiences other than those generated from Anglo-American-Australian contexts, thus broadening our knowledge base for more nuanced theorisation in the field. This paper contributes a close examination of the ca…
Doing family, contesting gender and expanding affinity
Despite rapid social and economic changes, the persistence of gender inequalities in the conventional nuclear family remains puzzling. It seems unlikely that women will contest gender inequalities if they have accepted the ideology of separate spheres or if they regard mothering and care giving as integral to their feminine identity. However, this article re-examines these issues by analysing the family practices of 23 married Chinese women. It a…
Feminising and masculinising primary teaching
Over the past two decades, the feminisation of primary school teaching has been identified by the media and government officials in Western countries as an important contributing factor to boys' academic problems. This panic, which has been criticised by feminists as a backlash and a form of recuperative politics, has promoted the development of research into gender and education, particularly studies related to the gendered culture of primary sc…
We are not completely Westernised
Gender, school management and educational reforms
Across the globe, many countries have incorporated new managerialism and marketization to reform their education systems. Feminist studies have already pointed out that these changes are gendered and masculinized and have documented their impacts on women teachers in secondary, higher and further education. Yet interestingly, while primary teaching is a feminized occupation, the ways that these changes and the associated practices are gendered an…
Chinese migrant women and families in britain
Persons of Unknown Identity (Suspicious Persons) and Rioting
From the time the students went out on the streets to petition and protest, Song sought various ways to enter their ranks by passing himself off as a student protestor. He was at the time quite reluctant to associate with people consistent with his own status—people who earlier in the movement were called "persons of unknown identity," and who later rallied together under the rubric of "citizens" (shi min) or as members of a "Workers Autonomous F…
We are not completely Westernised
Chinese migrant women and families in britain
Hong Kong’s new wave of migration
With a recent surge in the outward movement of the population, a new wave of emigration has been suggested to have started in Hong Kong. It is speculated that recent socio-political changes in Hong Kong may have contributed to this phenomenon. Therefore, five socio-political variables-mobility, sense of place, trust and confidence in the law and the legal system, global citizenship, and perception of inequality-are employed in this study as propo…
Transnational Familyhood and Migration Strategies among Parachute Kids-turned-Parents from Hong Kong
The impact of separation on children’s well-being and family relations has attracted growing attention in the study of transnational families, but little is known about its continued effect on life-course transitions and pathways. Focussing on 25 returnee parents who as “parachute kids” had lived away from their families in Hong Kong, this study explores how their prior experiences of family separation affect how these parents plan for the emigra…
Investigating the differential mobility experiences of Chinese cross-border students
Recent migration studies have adopted the lens of mobility to examine the stratifying effects of border policies, but few investigate the differential mobility of migrant families and children. This paper aims to contribute to the migration literature by considering the interplay between border policies, family configurations, and differential mobility. We apply the lens of differential mobility to the experiences of Chinese cross-border pupils –…
Gender, school management and educational reforms
Across the globe, many countries have incorporated new managerialism and marketization to reform their education systems. Feminist studies have already pointed out that these changes are gendered and masculinized and have documented their impacts on women teachers in secondary, higher and further education. Yet interestingly, while primary teaching is a feminized occupation, the ways that these changes and the associated practices are gendered an…
Feminising and masculinising primary teaching
Over the past two decades, the feminisation of primary school teaching has been identified by the media and government officials in Western countries as an important contributing factor to boys' academic problems. This panic, which has been criticised by feminists as a backlash and a form of recuperative politics, has promoted the development of research into gender and education, particularly studies related to the gendered culture of primary sc…
Contextualising the career pathways of women principals in Hong Kong
The fields of gender and educational leadership have been enriched recently by analyses of national case studies from non-western contexts. By contextualising women’s career development, these studies highlight the importance of including experiences other than those generated from Anglo-American-Australian contexts, thus broadening our knowledge base for more nuanced theorisation in the field. This paper contributes a close examination of the ca…
The Quest for Lifestyle
Existing analyses of lifestyle in migration studies have focused on individual, rather than family, aspirations, while studies of Chinese transnational migration have focused on instrumentalism, rather than the quality-of-life factors, driving family migration. Moreover, these two fields of study have tended to center on the privileges of relatively affluent migrants, largely overlooking important familial and economic dimensions for middle- and …
Do people feel they belong? Socio-political factors shaping the place attachment of Hong Kong citizens
Hong Kong citizens' sense of belonging has gone through a period of fluctuation during the period of rapid socio-political and legal change since the outbreak of the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement in 2019. This study explored how multiple dimensions of the place attachment of Hong Kong citizens have been shaped by factors associated with these changes. Six socio-political variables were incorporated into the three dimensions of the …
Mobility, belongingness and schooling experiences of Chinese cross-border students
Doing family, contesting gender and expanding affinity
Despite rapid social and economic changes, the persistence of gender inequalities in the conventional nuclear family remains puzzling. It seems unlikely that women will contest gender inequalities if they have accepted the ideology of separate spheres or if they regard mothering and care giving as integral to their feminine identity. However, this article re-examines these issues by analysing the family practices of 23 married Chinese women. It a…
Uncovering the Challenges and Needs of Chinese Adoptive Parents in Hong Kong
Adoptive parenting is a lifelong process. Adoptive parents face unique challenges at different stages of parenting, which require proper recognition, specialised support and sustained services. However, social stigma against infertility and adoption in Asian societies, including Hong Kong, has rendered the lived experiences of adoptive parents almost invisible. To address this knowledge gap, the current qualitative study drew on in‐depth intervie…
Turning Older Women's Life Stories into Hypermedia
This article discusses our development of a new form of feminist Creative Analytic Practices (CAP) by creating knowledge through interactive video installation and web-based interactive re-storytelling ( https://kimchoi.net/a-story-of-ones-own/ ). Since the 1990s, qualitative social researchers have been developing alternative methods and forms to capture and represent the complexity of lived experiences. Through referencing feminist postconstruc…
Gender equality or just more involved fathering? A critical examination of the division of childcare in Hong Kong’s professional middle-class families
The ideals of paternal involvement in childcare have become evermore celebrated in Hong Kong and elsewhere, but are these signs of a new form of gender equality in the family? Based on in-depth interviews with professional middle-class families in Hong Kong, our findings suggest not. Although mothers’ expectations of paternal involvement, privileged class positions and assistance from domestic helpers have contributed to increased father’s engage…
Spatialising domestic practices
How do women manage domestic work spatially? How does that change throughout life and relate to their subjectivities and womanhood? Informed by feminist geographers' concept of 'lived' space and queer studies' concept of disjunctive modernity, this paper spatialises women's domestic practices through examining 43 older Hong Kong women's life stories on domesticity. Hong Kong women, since childhood, have creatively employed temporal-spatial strate…
The disappearance of community, work and everyday life in late capitalism
Hong Kong has one of the least affordable housing markets in the world, but little is known about its housing advertisements, which constitute important discourses that shape the cultural ideal of homeownership. In many ways, Hong Kong’s property market represents that of other ‘global cities’, which are important nodes of global culture and capital flows. How do private property developers market housing in this context, where the nature of hous…
Two Anthems and the Sacrificial Rites of the Street Movement
At the opening of the grand memorial meeting for Hu Yaobang, Yang Shangkun said: "Play ‘The Internationale’... er... no... play the national anthem!" (Normally the national anthem is sung at the opening of an assembly and "The Internationale" at the end. This mistake elicited a burst of laughter from the multitude assembled on the square: Yang's slip of the tongue suggested his subconscious dislike of this meeting
Persons of Unknown Identity (Suspicious Persons) and Rioting
From the time the students went out on the streets to petition and protest, Song sought various ways to enter their ranks by passing himself off as a student protestor. He was at the time quite reluctant to associate with people consistent with his own status—people who earlier in the movement were called "persons of unknown identity," and who later rallied together under the rubric of "citizens" (shi min) or as members of a "Workers Autonomous F…
Chinese migrant women and families in britain
Gender, school management and educational reforms
Across the globe, many countries have incorporated new managerialism and marketization to reform their education systems. Feminist studies have already pointed out that these changes are gendered and masculinized and have documented their impacts on women teachers in secondary, higher and further education. Yet interestingly, while primary teaching is a feminized occupation, the ways that these changes and the associated practices are gendered an…
We are not completely Westernised
Feminising and masculinising primary teaching
Over the past two decades, the feminisation of primary school teaching has been identified by the media and government officials in Western countries as an important contributing factor to boys' academic problems. This panic, which has been criticised by feminists as a backlash and a form of recuperative politics, has promoted the development of research into gender and education, particularly studies related to the gendered culture of primary sc…
Doing family, contesting gender and expanding affinity
Despite rapid social and economic changes, the persistence of gender inequalities in the conventional nuclear family remains puzzling. It seems unlikely that women will contest gender inequalities if they have accepted the ideology of separate spheres or if they regard mothering and care giving as integral to their feminine identity. However, this article re-examines these issues by analysing the family practices of 23 married Chinese women. It a…
Contextualising the career pathways of women principals in Hong Kong
The fields of gender and educational leadership have been enriched recently by analyses of national case studies from non-western contexts. By contextualising women’s career development, these studies highlight the importance of including experiences other than those generated from Anglo-American-Australian contexts, thus broadening our knowledge base for more nuanced theorisation in the field. This paper contributes a close examination of the ca…
Investigating the differential mobility experiences of Chinese cross-border students
Recent migration studies have adopted the lens of mobility to examine the stratifying effects of border policies, but few investigate the differential mobility of migrant families and children. This paper aims to contribute to the migration literature by considering the interplay between border policies, family configurations, and differential mobility. We apply the lens of differential mobility to the experiences of Chinese cross-border pupils –…
The disappearance of community, work and everyday life in late capitalism
Hong Kong has one of the least affordable housing markets in the world, but little is known about its housing advertisements, which constitute important discourses that shape the cultural ideal of homeownership. In many ways, Hong Kong’s property market represents that of other ‘global cities’, which are important nodes of global culture and capital flows. How do private property developers market housing in this context, where the nature of hous…
Lifeworlds of nine- and ten-year-old children
There has been much discussion about the high performance of East Asian students in international high stakes testing, but little attention has been paid to their lifeworlds beyond school. In this article we explore findings from a survey of 627 Year 4 children (nine and ten years old) in three global cities (Hong Kong, Singapore, and Melbourne), focusing on their out-of-school activities as one aspect of their lifeworlds. The findings indicate t…
Mobility, belongingness and schooling experiences of Chinese cross-border students
Transnational Familyhood and Migration Strategies among Parachute Kids-turned-Parents from Hong Kong
The impact of separation on children’s well-being and family relations has attracted growing attention in the study of transnational families, but little is known about its continued effect on life-course transitions and pathways. Focussing on 25 returnee parents who as “parachute kids” had lived away from their families in Hong Kong, this study explores how their prior experiences of family separation affect how these parents plan for the emigra…
Hong Kong’s new wave of migration
With a recent surge in the outward movement of the population, a new wave of emigration has been suggested to have started in Hong Kong. It is speculated that recent socio-political changes in Hong Kong may have contributed to this phenomenon. Therefore, five socio-political variables-mobility, sense of place, trust and confidence in the law and the legal system, global citizenship, and perception of inequality-are employed in this study as propo…
Exploring children's out-of-school lifeworlds
Purpose This article reflects on the adaption of Sarah Pink's video re-enactment methodology for exploring children's out-of-school lifeworlds. Design/methodology/approach Video re-enactments originate in the work of Sarah Pink who developed the methodology to study everyday routines, including activities associated with people's energy consumption at home. This article discusses the adaption of this methodology for exploring 9–10-year-old childr…
Gender equality or just more involved fathering? A critical examination of the division of childcare in Hong Kong’s professional middle-class families
The ideals of paternal involvement in childcare have become evermore celebrated in Hong Kong and elsewhere, but are these signs of a new form of gender equality in the family? Based on in-depth interviews with professional middle-class families in Hong Kong, our findings suggest not. Although mothers’ expectations of paternal involvement, privileged class positions and assistance from domestic helpers have contributed to increased father’s engage…
Spatialising domestic practices
How do women manage domestic work spatially? How does that change throughout life and relate to their subjectivities and womanhood? Informed by feminist geographers' concept of 'lived' space and queer studies' concept of disjunctive modernity, this paper spatialises women's domestic practices through examining 43 older Hong Kong women's life stories on domesticity. Hong Kong women, since childhood, have creatively employed temporal-spatial strate…
Negotiating Masculinity in a Post-Socialist Society
Occupational gender inequalities are an important sociological concern. Studies on men in female-dominated occupations, such as nursing, have offered rich insights to advance our understanding of gender dynamics in contemporary society. However, current theoretical and empirical accounts have been mostly dominated by Westernized discussions. Utilizing insights from critical studies on men and masculinities, alongside Chinese masculinities studies…
Belonging, student identity and school activity preferences
Students in East Asian locations often obtain high academic results in international high-stakes testing, but lower results on affective aspects of their schooling, such as sense of belonging. These findings indicate the need for more holistic research into children’s lifeworlds, including their experiences of school. In this article, we draw on a survey with 627 Year 4 students in three global cities in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Singapore, an…
Study-to-work transitions of students-turned-migrants
Who intended to leave? Patterns and impacts of Hong Kong's recent wave of migration
During Hong Kong's 2019 political turmoil and the subsequent impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, a rapid rise in turnover rates in certain occupations, such as teachers, medical workers and civil servants, was observed. Some attributed this trend to the increasing rate of emigration. Previous studies have suggested that younger and better‐educated individuals are more likely to emigrate, and that the emigration of a specific group of…
The Quest for Lifestyle
Existing analyses of lifestyle in migration studies have focused on individual, rather than family, aspirations, while studies of Chinese transnational migration have focused on instrumentalism, rather than the quality-of-life factors, driving family migration. Moreover, these two fields of study have tended to center on the privileges of relatively affluent migrants, largely overlooking important familial and economic dimensions for middle- and …
Uncovering the Challenges and Needs of Chinese Adoptive Parents in Hong Kong
Adoptive parenting is a lifelong process. Adoptive parents face unique challenges at different stages of parenting, which require proper recognition, specialised support and sustained services. However, social stigma against infertility and adoption in Asian societies, including Hong Kong, has rendered the lived experiences of adoptive parents almost invisible. To address this knowledge gap, the current qualitative study drew on in‐depth intervie…
Do people feel they belong? Socio-political factors shaping the place attachment of Hong Kong citizens
Hong Kong citizens' sense of belonging has gone through a period of fluctuation during the period of rapid socio-political and legal change since the outbreak of the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement in 2019. This study explored how multiple dimensions of the place attachment of Hong Kong citizens have been shaped by factors associated with these changes. Six socio-political variables were incorporated into the three dimensions of the …
Turning Older Women's Life Stories into Hypermedia
This article discusses our development of a new form of feminist Creative Analytic Practices (CAP) by creating knowledge through interactive video installation and web-based interactive re-storytelling ( https://kimchoi.net/a-story-of-ones-own/ ). Since the 1990s, qualitative social researchers have been developing alternative methods and forms to capture and represent the complexity of lived experiences. Through referencing feminist postconstruc…
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