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Conference Paper: Female Expatriates in Hong Kong – Negotiating a Transnational Life and Identity in a Global City
Title | Female Expatriates in Hong Kong – Negotiating a Transnational Life and Identity in a Global City |
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Issue Date | 2013 |
Publisher | The Royal Geographical Society (RGS). |
Citation | Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London, United Kingdom, 27-30 August 2013 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This paper draws on the preliminary findings of a two-year qualitative research study 'Home and Away: Female Transnational Professionals in Hong Kong' funded by the HK Central Policy Unit under its 'Public Policy Research' Programme. The paper is based on interviews with forty highly-skilled, highly-educated women ‘on the move’ and considers the multiple meanings and strategies of living and working as global elites for different types of transnational female professionals (for example, Western and non-Western women, single women as ‘lead’ migrants, those who migrate with their spouses). Their personal narratives offer important insights into the cultural imaginings of Hong Kong as the ‘West’s kind of East’ (Knowles, 2005), the power geometries of global mobilities, and the way that hypermobile female professionals manage a transnational lifestyle and negotiate their identity through everyday encounters with different categories of migrants and local Chinese communities and through their social and familial relationships across mobile locations. |
Description | Session 303: Living on the move |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/190723 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Lee, MSY | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-09-17T15:38:20Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2013-09-17T15:38:20Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London, United Kingdom, 27-30 August 2013 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/190723 | - |
dc.description | Session 303: Living on the move | - |
dc.description.abstract | This paper draws on the preliminary findings of a two-year qualitative research study 'Home and Away: Female Transnational Professionals in Hong Kong' funded by the HK Central Policy Unit under its 'Public Policy Research' Programme. The paper is based on interviews with forty highly-skilled, highly-educated women ‘on the move’ and considers the multiple meanings and strategies of living and working as global elites for different types of transnational female professionals (for example, Western and non-Western women, single women as ‘lead’ migrants, those who migrate with their spouses). Their personal narratives offer important insights into the cultural imaginings of Hong Kong as the ‘West’s kind of East’ (Knowles, 2005), the power geometries of global mobilities, and the way that hypermobile female professionals manage a transnational lifestyle and negotiate their identity through everyday encounters with different categories of migrants and local Chinese communities and through their social and familial relationships across mobile locations. | - |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | The Royal Geographical Society (RGS). | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) | en_US |
dc.title | Female Expatriates in Hong Kong – Negotiating a Transnational Life and Identity in a Global City | en_US |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Lee, MSY: leesym@hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Lee, MSY=rp00562 | en_US |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 222658 | en_US |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |