Lai-Ching Leung
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4486645 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Lai-Ching Leung |
| PRENOMES | Lai-Ching |
| SOBRENOME | Leung |
| ASSINATURA | LEUNG L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | City University of Hong Kong |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 7 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
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…
Lone Mothers, Social Security and the Family in Hong Kong
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 …
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 This article argues that workfare strategy based on an outdated industrial-productivist conception of work contributes to the marginalization and undervaluation of work performed by disadvantaged grou…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
Political science (6 obras) · Sociology (6 obras) · Gender Studies (5 obras) · Gender Studies (4 obras) · Psychology (3 obras) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (3 obras) · Social Work (3 obras) · Intersectionality (2 obras) · Law (2 obras) · Law (2 obras)