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Webinars on Transnational Migration and Family Processes in Greater China and Beyond

20-21 May 2021 (Thursday – Friday)

The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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Professor Johanna L. Waters

Professor of Human Geography, University College London 
 
1st webinar
20 May 2021
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm (HKT)
 
Topic:
Children’s bodies are not capital: 
Arduous cross-border mobilities between Shenzhen and Hong Kong

Discussants

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Professor Celeste Yuen

Associate Professor,

Department of Educational, Administrative and Policy,

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Professor Jenny Chiu

Assistant Professor,

Department of Sociology and Social Policy,

Lingnan University

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Professor Loretta Baldassar

Professor in Anthropology and Sociology, University of Western Australia
 

2nd webinar 

21 May 2021

4:00 pm – 5:30 pm (HKT)

 
Topic:
Between successful/agentive ageing and grandparent duties: 
The informal care chains of transnational Chinese grandparents and their Australian migrant children and ‘distant’ grandchildren

Discussants

Dr Alexandra Ridgway (Fellow, Centre for Criminology, The University of Hong Kong)
Dr Guida Man (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, York University)

Dr Alexandra Ridgway

Fellow,

Centre for Criminology,

The University of Hong Kong

Dr Guida Man

Associate Professor,

Department of Sociology,

York University

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This conference is fully supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No.: UGC/IDS14/17)

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