Migration in Post-Colonial Hong Kong - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0367272857 ISBN 13: 9780367272852

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2020

Riassunto

Since 1995 most mainland migrants to Hong Kong have been the wives or non-adult children of Hong Kong men of lower socio-economic status. The majority of immigrants are women, who throughout the past two decades have accounted for more than 60% of immigration. The profile of immigrants has been changing and they are significantly more educated than was the case in the past. Despite the improvement in the educational level of mainland Chinese migrants since 1991, and their increased involvement in paid employment, migrants have continued to experience great difficulty integrating into Hong Kong society and anti-immigrant sentiment seems to have increased over the same period. This raises the question of how gender and socio-economic factors intersect with migration to influence the extent of migrants’ adaption to Hong Kong society and culture. The growing anti-China sentiment in Hong Kong also raises the question of how the integration of migrants into a destination society is influenced by the political context.

Examining the questions around migration into Hong Kong from a range of multidisciplinary perspectives, this book combines quantitative and qualitative data to portray a detailed image of contemporary Hong Kong.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Susanne Y.P. Choi is Professor, Department of Sociology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong

Eric Fong is Professor of Sociology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0367272857
• ISBN 13: 9780367272852
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 180
• Redattore: Choi Susanne Y.P., Fong Eric
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania