Lai Ching Leung
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4137579 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Lai Ching Leung |
| PRENOMES | Lai Ching |
| SOBRENOME | Leung |
| ASSINATURA | LEUNG L C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | City University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3630-807X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The Challenges Male Carers Face in Hong Kong
This study examines the intersection of gender and class that shape the caregiving experience of male carers and aims to understand the challenges they face in accessing social support from within an intersectionality framework. A total of 20 male carers were interviewed for this study. The findings show that the male carers experienced various levels of stigmatisation and marginalisation in caring. The caring experience of male carers is sociall…
Reconstruction of Masculine Identities Through Caring Practices
The purpose of this study was to explore from a gender perspective how masculinities might be reworked into identities of care through men taking on the role of family caregiver. A qualitative method was adopted for this research. Twenty Chinese men in Hong Kong who were the main caregivers in their families were invited for in-depth interviews to understand their views on caring and their experiences as caregivers. We identified four types of ma…
Gender Matters
This study aims to reveal the gendered practices in childcare under the family care model and the effects of these practices on carers in Hong Kong. Familial ideology remains a dominant welfare principle in childcare policy in Hong Kong, which assumes that family care is the best form of care provision. However, this policy assumption fails to respond to the needs in childcare arising from the social changes and development. The suggested possibl…
Lone Mothers, Social Security and the Family in Hong Kong
This book is the first study with feminist analysis on lone mothers’ economic dependency in Hong Kong. The implications of this study are considerable; it challenges both conventional thinking about families and the political and academic debates about social policy. This book sets out to examine the relationship between social security benefits and lone mothers’ labour supply in Hong Kong. Two particular aspects of the labour supply behaviour of…
Is cash allowance a way to ease child care burden? Views of carers in Hong Kong
Caring for the carers is not only a policy challenge for the government but also a global concern to achieve gender equality by restructuring welfare for care. Paying informal carers is one of the measures that address their needs, which is being practiced in Western countries for more than 10 years now. Financial support for care does not only value the contribution of carers but also compensate for the loss of carers caused by unpaid care dutie…
Intersectional Challenges
Intersectionality is a useful approach to understand the marginalization of ethnic minority (EM) sexual assault survivors. By using this approach, we are able to recognize the interplay and complexity between gender, class, and race that give rise to the inequality and oppression that experienced by EM women in Hong Kong. Findings of the study show that rape myths, gender-role perception, religion, kinship pressure, language barriers, citizenship…
Why Lesbian and Gay Survivors Don't Seek Help from Social Services
This article reports the results of a small-scale exploratory study of the barriers to lesbian and gay people obtaining help from social services after having been abused by their same-sex partners, and highlight the issues that give rise to social work practice challenges. The voices of both service users and service providers are considered through in-depth interviews with nine lesbians and gay men and five social workers. From the perspective …
Understanding the help-seeking decisions of sexual assault survivors
The study aims to adopt a social constructionist and feminist approach to explore the interactional factors that influence the decision of sexual violence survivors to seek help and disclose their sexual abuse experiences in Hong Kong. The study has adopted both quantitative and qualitative research methods. Results suggest that the decisions of sexual assault survivors to disclose their experiences or seek help are not characterized by a rationa…
Understanding the Masculinity Crisis
The purpose of this study was to understand the men's crisis from a gender perspective and discuss its implications for men's services in Hong Kong. In gathering data for the study, we completed telephone interviews with 547 adult men aged eighteen to sixty-five to understand their views on different sources of pressure, including work, economic circumstances, family relationships, human relationships, personal development, health and social stat…
Gender mainstreaming childcare policy
This paper examines the extent to which the influence of Confucianism on the welfare of women erects barriers to the gender mainstreaming (GM) of childcare policy in Hong Kong. GM is a global strategy adopted by the Beijing World Conference on Women in 1995. Adopting a context-sensitive approach in understanding the translation of the international concept of GM in the policy formation and practice in Hong Kong, we find that the Confucian welfare…
Workfare versus reconceptualizing work
Workfare has become a dominant social welfare approach in dealing with unemployment in various cities around the world. Recent social security reforms for lone mothers on benefits in Hong Kong are examples of the application of workfare in practice. This article argues that workfare strategy based on an outdated industrial-productivist conception of work contributes to the marginalization and undervaluation of work performed by disadvantaged grou…
A family‐friendly policy for Hong Kong
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to compare the family‐friendly policies developed in Sweden, the UK and Singapore and discuss the implications on family‐friendly policies in Hong Kong. Design/methodology/approach The study draws on policy documents of the three countries, to examine the welfare model, the service provisions and the outcomes of the family‐friendly policies. Findings In the study, the paper finds that considerable differences …
Perception and Response to Employment Risks of Workers in Hong Kong
Rapid social changes in Hong Kong have increased employment risk. In response, the Government has adopted a workfare approach. Although this strategy may help some workers to get a job, it also contributes to individualize risk. Research conducted in Hong Kong in 2006-07 explored how workers perceived unemployment risks, how they cope with them, and how effective existing social policy was in helping people manage these risks. Findings showed tha…
Gender Sensitivity Among Social Workers Handling Cases of Domestic Violence
This article examines gender sensitivity among social workers in different service settings, who handle domestic violence cases and its implications for social workers' professional development in Hong Kong. The findings of in-depth interviews with both social workers and survivors of domestic violence revealed that the major difference in the handling of domestic violence cases by social workers in family settings and those working in shelters o…
The Impact of Feminism on Social Work Students in Hong Kong
This study found that social work students in Hong Kong are insensitive to gender issues in both their practice and life experiences. It has been suggested that feminism should be integrated into social work curricula to enable students to question the way in which their life experiences lead them to construct gender, which is a crucial step in the development of nonsexist social work practice. However, in Hong Kong, there are two barriers to the…
Between Viewing and Consuming
Empowering women in social work practice
English The postmodernist feminist notion of empowerment and its integration in social work practice for women in Hong Kong are examined. Four areas of reflections on empowerment practice are highlighted for discussion, namely the reconceptualization of power, the fact that the personal is political, the dilemma of difference and the relationship between empowerer and the empowered. French Ce texte examine les notions d'`empowerment' dans le fémi…
Gender mainstreaming childcare policy
This paper examines the extent to which the influence of Confucianism on the welfare of women erects barriers to the gender mainstreaming (GM) of childcare policy in Hong Kong. GM is a global strategy adopted by the Beijing World Conference on Women in 1995. Adopting a context-sensitive approach in understanding the translation of the international concept of GM in the policy formation and practice in Hong Kong, we find that the Confucian welfare…
Understanding the Masculinity Crisis
The purpose of this study was to understand the men's crisis from a gender perspective and discuss its implications for men's services in Hong Kong. In gathering data for the study, we completed telephone interviews with 547 adult men aged eighteen to sixty-five to understand their views on different sources of pressure, including work, economic circumstances, family relationships, human relationships, personal development, health and social stat…
Gender Sensitivity Among Social Workers Handling Cases of Domestic Violence
This article examines gender sensitivity among social workers in different service settings, who handle domestic violence cases and its implications for social workers' professional development in Hong Kong. The findings of in-depth interviews with both social workers and survivors of domestic violence revealed that the major difference in the handling of domestic violence cases by social workers in family settings and those working in shelters o…
Understanding the help-seeking decisions of sexual assault survivors
The study aims to adopt a social constructionist and feminist approach to explore the interactional factors that influence the decision of sexual violence survivors to seek help and disclose their sexual abuse experiences in Hong Kong. The study has adopted both quantitative and qualitative research methods. Results suggest that the decisions of sexual assault survivors to disclose their experiences or seek help are not characterized by a rationa…
Empowering women in social work practice
English The postmodernist feminist notion of empowerment and its integration in social work practice for women in Hong Kong are examined. Four areas of reflections on empowerment practice are highlighted for discussion, namely the reconceptualization of power, the fact that the personal is political, the dilemma of difference and the relationship between empowerer and the empowered. French Ce texte examine les notions d'`empowerment' dans le fémi…
A family‐friendly policy for Hong Kong
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to compare the family‐friendly policies developed in Sweden, the UK and Singapore and discuss the implications on family‐friendly policies in Hong Kong. Design/methodology/approach The study draws on policy documents of the three countries, to examine the welfare model, the service provisions and the outcomes of the family‐friendly policies. Findings In the study, the paper finds that considerable differences …
The Impact of Feminism on Social Work Students in Hong Kong
This study found that social work students in Hong Kong are insensitive to gender issues in both their practice and life experiences. It has been suggested that feminism should be integrated into social work curricula to enable students to question the way in which their life experiences lead them to construct gender, which is a crucial step in the development of nonsexist social work practice. However, in Hong Kong, there are two barriers to the…
Between Viewing and Consuming
The Challenges Male Carers Face in Hong Kong
This study examines the intersection of gender and class that shape the caregiving experience of male carers and aims to understand the challenges they face in accessing social support from within an intersectionality framework. A total of 20 male carers were interviewed for this study. The findings show that the male carers experienced various levels of stigmatisation and marginalisation in caring. The caring experience of male carers is sociall…
Is cash allowance a way to ease child care burden? Views of carers in Hong Kong
Caring for the carers is not only a policy challenge for the government but also a global concern to achieve gender equality by restructuring welfare for care. Paying informal carers is one of the measures that address their needs, which is being practiced in Western countries for more than 10 years now. Financial support for care does not only value the contribution of carers but also compensate for the loss of carers caused by unpaid care dutie…
Between Viewing and Consuming
Empowering women in social work practice
English The postmodernist feminist notion of empowerment and its integration in social work practice for women in Hong Kong are examined. Four areas of reflections on empowerment practice are highlighted for discussion, namely the reconceptualization of power, the fact that the personal is political, the dilemma of difference and the relationship between empowerer and the empowered. French Ce texte examine les notions d'`empowerment' dans le fémi…
The Impact of Feminism on Social Work Students in Hong Kong
This study found that social work students in Hong Kong are insensitive to gender issues in both their practice and life experiences. It has been suggested that feminism should be integrated into social work curricula to enable students to question the way in which their life experiences lead them to construct gender, which is a crucial step in the development of nonsexist social work practice. However, in Hong Kong, there are two barriers to the…
Perception and Response to Employment Risks of Workers in Hong Kong
Rapid social changes in Hong Kong have increased employment risk. In response, the Government has adopted a workfare approach. Although this strategy may help some workers to get a job, it also contributes to individualize risk. Research conducted in Hong Kong in 2006-07 explored how workers perceived unemployment risks, how they cope with them, and how effective existing social policy was in helping people manage these risks. Findings showed tha…
Gender Sensitivity Among Social Workers Handling Cases of Domestic Violence
This article examines gender sensitivity among social workers in different service settings, who handle domestic violence cases and its implications for social workers' professional development in Hong Kong. The findings of in-depth interviews with both social workers and survivors of domestic violence revealed that the major difference in the handling of domestic violence cases by social workers in family settings and those working in shelters o…
A family‐friendly policy for Hong Kong
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to compare the family‐friendly policies developed in Sweden, the UK and Singapore and discuss the implications on family‐friendly policies in Hong Kong. Design/methodology/approach The study draws on policy documents of the three countries, to examine the welfare model, the service provisions and the outcomes of the family‐friendly policies. Findings In the study, the paper finds that considerable differences …
Workfare versus reconceptualizing work
Workfare has become a dominant social welfare approach in dealing with unemployment in various cities around the world. Recent social security reforms for lone mothers on benefits in Hong Kong are examples of the application of workfare in practice. This article argues that workfare strategy based on an outdated industrial-productivist conception of work contributes to the marginalization and undervaluation of work performed by disadvantaged grou…
Understanding the Masculinity Crisis
The purpose of this study was to understand the men's crisis from a gender perspective and discuss its implications for men's services in Hong Kong. In gathering data for the study, we completed telephone interviews with 547 adult men aged eighteen to sixty-five to understand their views on different sources of pressure, including work, economic circumstances, family relationships, human relationships, personal development, health and social stat…
Gender mainstreaming childcare policy
This paper examines the extent to which the influence of Confucianism on the welfare of women erects barriers to the gender mainstreaming (GM) of childcare policy in Hong Kong. GM is a global strategy adopted by the Beijing World Conference on Women in 1995. Adopting a context-sensitive approach in understanding the translation of the international concept of GM in the policy formation and practice in Hong Kong, we find that the Confucian welfare…
Understanding the help-seeking decisions of sexual assault survivors
The study aims to adopt a social constructionist and feminist approach to explore the interactional factors that influence the decision of sexual violence survivors to seek help and disclose their sexual abuse experiences in Hong Kong. The study has adopted both quantitative and qualitative research methods. Results suggest that the decisions of sexual assault survivors to disclose their experiences or seek help are not characterized by a rationa…
Is cash allowance a way to ease child care burden? Views of carers in Hong Kong
Caring for the carers is not only a policy challenge for the government but also a global concern to achieve gender equality by restructuring welfare for care. Paying informal carers is one of the measures that address their needs, which is being practiced in Western countries for more than 10 years now. Financial support for care does not only value the contribution of carers but also compensate for the loss of carers caused by unpaid care dutie…
Intersectional Challenges
Intersectionality is a useful approach to understand the marginalization of ethnic minority (EM) sexual assault survivors. By using this approach, we are able to recognize the interplay and complexity between gender, class, and race that give rise to the inequality and oppression that experienced by EM women in Hong Kong. Findings of the study show that rape myths, gender-role perception, religion, kinship pressure, language barriers, citizenship…
Why Lesbian and Gay Survivors Don't Seek Help from Social Services
This article reports the results of a small-scale exploratory study of the barriers to lesbian and gay people obtaining help from social services after having been abused by their same-sex partners, and highlight the issues that give rise to social work practice challenges. The voices of both service users and service providers are considered through in-depth interviews with nine lesbians and gay men and five social workers. From the perspective …
Lone Mothers, Social Security and the Family in Hong Kong
This book is the first study with feminist analysis on lone mothers’ economic dependency in Hong Kong. The implications of this study are considerable; it challenges both conventional thinking about families and the political and academic debates about social policy. This book sets out to examine the relationship between social security benefits and lone mothers’ labour supply in Hong Kong. Two particular aspects of the labour supply behaviour of…
Gender Matters
This study aims to reveal the gendered practices in childcare under the family care model and the effects of these practices on carers in Hong Kong. Familial ideology remains a dominant welfare principle in childcare policy in Hong Kong, which assumes that family care is the best form of care provision. However, this policy assumption fails to respond to the needs in childcare arising from the social changes and development. The suggested possibl…
The Challenges Male Carers Face in Hong Kong
This study examines the intersection of gender and class that shape the caregiving experience of male carers and aims to understand the challenges they face in accessing social support from within an intersectionality framework. A total of 20 male carers were interviewed for this study. The findings show that the male carers experienced various levels of stigmatisation and marginalisation in caring. The caring experience of male carers is sociall…
Reconstruction of Masculine Identities Through Caring Practices
The purpose of this study was to explore from a gender perspective how masculinities might be reworked into identities of care through men taking on the role of family caregiver. A qualitative method was adopted for this research. Twenty Chinese men in Hong Kong who were the main caregivers in their families were invited for in-depth interviews to understand their views on caring and their experiences as caregivers. We identified four types of ma…
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