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Introduction -- Growing up in-between: Chinese American identity and belonging in the United States -- Creating the "non-American American dream" overseas: strategic in-betweenness in action -- Perpetually Chinese, but not Chinese enough for China -- "Leftover women" and "kings of the candy shop": the gendered experiences of ABCs in the ancestral homeland -- Conclusion.

AbstractIntroductionThis article explores one mental health company's urgent response to the global COVID‐19 pandemic, and the multifaceted implications of quickly transitioning to telehealth services.ObjectivesThe purpose of this article is to share information with interdisciplinary professionals about the planning, implementation, and results of transitioning to telehealth services during a pandemic.ProceduresWe compiled practice‐related data regarding company attendance rates and customer and employee satisfaction with telehealth. Data include feedback from more than 40 clinicians and 60 families.ResultsThe data suggest there are both benefits and limitations to engaging in telehealth services within a mental health company. Attendance rates increased dramatically, engagement improved with adolescents but proved challenging with the younger children. Telehealth helped overcome many typical barriers to mental health treatment. Concerns remain regarding confidentiality, assessment of abuse and neglect, and ability to read nonverbal social cues.ConclusionFamilies and practitioners experienced the convenience and benefits of telehealth but also expressed concerns over certain limitations. Finding a responsible way to incorporate telehealth into practice postpandemic is a priority for mental health practitioners, both now and in the immediate future.

"Satellite babies" may seem odd in an age of "helicopter parents," yet Chinese American families' transnational separations are relatively common.

AbstractHow do interest groups shape the diffusion of policies they oppose across the states? This study explores this question using the case of teachers' unions and education reform policies. Using a novel dataset on charter, voucher, and performance pay policies spanning 1992–2013, I find evidence that strength of the teachers' unions decreases the likelihood of performance pay and that additional strength is less impactful with more Democratic control of the legislature. Teachers' unions are weakly related to a lack of charter laws and do not impact voucher laws. The latter two policies are more strongly associated with policymaker learning and education reform advocacy groups, respectively. These findings suggest that vested interests most strongly impact the policies that most fundamentally threaten their organizational strength and that this effect is conditioned on the party in power; increases in interest group strength are not necessary when policymakers are already sympathetic.

A growing body of research examines the experiences of highly skilled individuals who "return" to work in their ancestral homeland, but has tended to overlook the gendered dynamics that shape their decisions. This article fills this gap by analyzing how the gendered local context of China affects the experiences of American-Born Chinese (ABC) migrants. Through in-depth qualitative interviews with 52 second-generation ABC professionals in Beijing and Shanghai, I found that both women and men enjoyed comparable career growth and opportunities. Socially, however, men's foreign citizenship, education, and higher wages transformed them into highly eligible dating and marriage partners, while ABC women were stigmatized as "leftover women" (a social category ascribed to urban, educated single women in China). Thus, ABC women must prioritize either their professional or personal lives, while their male counterparts can enjoy both. By highlighting the personal realm, this case reveals how the trajectories of first-world ancestral homeland migrants are uniquely gendered.

Previous research has examined growing globalized divisions in domestic labor through the perspective of poor migrant women who perform care work in advanced industrialized societies. This article explores this global trend in reverse, focusing on first-world women who migrate into developing countries and engage with local dynamics of care through volunteer work. Based on 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork with Helping Hands, an organization of expatriate wives that assisted a local state-run orphanage in Beijing, China, I argue that gendered processes of privileged migration caused women to develop a "logic of care" that equated good care solely with maternal nurturance and emotional connection. This logic permeated their volunteer efforts, causing conflicts with Chinese state caregivers who prioritized the performance of reproductive tasks. This case demonstrates the socially constructed nature of logics that underlie care practices and their relationship to increasingly transnational configurations of privilege and inequality. When applied to first-world women's charitable activities in developing countries, unquestioned gendered logics can reinforce larger global disparities of power through the stratified provision of care.