Open Access #12 2000
Abstract Wong Wai Ling. ; Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000. ; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 210-218). ; Abstracts in English and Chinese. ; Acknowledgements --- p.i ; Declaration --- p.iii ; Abstract --- p.iv ; 中文摘要 --- p.vii ; Chapter Chapter 1: --- Introduction --- p.1 ; Chapter 1.1 --- The Immigration of Cross-Border Families --- p.1 ; Chapter 1.2 --- Family Strategies and Gender Relations --- p.2 ; Chapter 1.3 --- Summary of Arguments --- p.6 ; Chapter 1.4 --- Research Design and Methods --- p.10 ; Chapter 1.5 --- The Development of Cross-Border Families --- p.14 ; Chapter 1.6 --- Map of the Thesis --- p.16 ; Chapter Chapter 2: --- "Immigration, Gender, and Family" --- p.18 ; Chapter 2.1 --- Western Feminist Rethinking of the Family --- p.19 ; Chapter 2.2 --- Immigration Scholarship of Family Theorizing --- p.21 ; Chapter 2.3 --- An Integrative Approach --- p.25 ; Chapter 2.4 --- The Concept of Strategy with a Gender Perspective --- p.27 ; Chapter 2.5 --- Gender and Internal Family Processes --- p.29 ; Chapter 2.6 --- The Making of the Structural Context --- p.31 ; Chapter 2.7 --- Chinese Traditional Family Culture as Resource or Constraint? --- p.35 ; Chapter Chapter 3: --- Immigration and Family Formation Across the Hong Kong 一 Guangdong Border --- p.37 ; Chapter 3.1 --- History of Chinese Immigration and Cross-Border Family Formation --- p.37 ; Chapter 3.2 --- Immigration Policy and Family Split Structures --- p.42 ; Chapter 3.3 --- Immigration and Social Location of Immigrant Families --- p.45 ; Chapter 3.4 --- Women's Economic Situation --- p.47 ; Chapter 3.5 --- The Context of Reception --- p.51 ; Chapter Chapter 4: --- Strategies and Family Patterns --- p.62 ; Chapter 4.1 --- Tensions in Reconstituted Cross-Border Families --- p.63 ; Chapter 4.2 --- Family Strategies and Conjugal Arrangements --- p.64 ; Chapter 4.3 --- Legal Reunited Conjugal Arrangement --- p.67 ; Chapter 4.4 --- Split Conjugal Arrangement --- p.71 ; Chapter 4.5 --- Bi-national Conjugal Arrangement --- ...