Hong Kong Movers and Stayers: Narratives of Family Migration
Half a million Hong Kong residents fled their homeland during the thirteen years before Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997—and nearly half of those returned within several years of leaving. Filled with detailed, first-hand stories of nine Hong Kong families over nearly two decades, Hong Kong Movers and Stayers is an exhaustive and intimate look at the forces behind Hong Kong families' successful and failed efforts at migration and settlement.\ \ This multi-faceted study was begun...
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Half a million Hong Kong residents fled their homeland during the thirteen years before Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997-and nearly half of those returned within several years of leaving. Filled with detailed, first-hand stories of nine Hong Kong families over nearly two decades, Hong Kong Movers and Stayers is an exhaustive and intimate look at the forces behind Hong Kong families' successful and failed efforts at migration and settlement.This multi-faceted study was begun in 1991, when migration was attributed primarily to the political anxieties of the time and the notion that Hong Kong residents were seeking a better life in the West. Defining migration as a process, not a single act of leaving, Hong Kong Movers and Stayers provides an antidote to ethnocentric and simplistic theories by uncovering migration stories as they relate to social structures and social capital.With an approach that melds survey analysis, personal biography, and sociology. Hong Kong Movers and Stayers provides a depth of understanding by comparing multiple families and gives voice to the interplay of diverse family roles, gender, and age as motivating factors in migration.
Preface viiAcknowledgments ix1 Institutional Theory and Family Migration 12 Hong Kong's Institutional Background 18Part 1 Cosmopolitan Emigrants3 The Luk Family: Exit and Return of Emigrant Planners 354 The Chou and Leung Families:'Immigrant Entrepreneurs 585 Francis Kwong: The Professional's Dilemma 80Part 2 The Rooted: Ties To Hong Kong Deter Migration6 The Gung Family: Hong Kong Locals 1017 The Ongs: A Nonemigrant Trading Family 1188 Brian Wan: The Extended Family Emigrates 135Part 3 working Class Families: Unlikely Emigrants9 The Szeto Family: Nowhere to Run 15910 The Hung Family: Canceled Migration Dreams 18011 The Chia Brothers: Constructing Hong Kong as the Place to Be 20012 Conclusion: Movers and Stayers 217Notes 231References 235Index 257
