Making home : three generations of Chinese immigrant women in Hong Kong

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wailing Wong
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Chinese Immigrant ◽  
Three Generations ◽  
Chinese Immigrant Women

The seven-year struggle: injustices at home for Chinese immigrant women in Hong Kong

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 154-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petula Sik Ying Ho ◽  
Connie Kuok Ieng Ho ◽  
William Chi Wai Wong ◽  
Agnes Mei Yu Pau
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Chinese Immigrant ◽  
Chinese Immigrant Women ◽  
At Home

The Experience of Women in Chinese Immigrant Families: An Inquiry into Institutional and Organizational Processes

1995 ◽  
Vol 4 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 303-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guida Man
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Chinese Women ◽  
Immigration Policies ◽  
Chinese Immigrant ◽  
Institutional Processes ◽  
Canadian Immigration ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Chinese Immigrant Women

The effects of macrostructural processes (institutional and organizational) on Chinese immigrant women are examined, as well as the effects of Canadian immigration policies, past and present, on middle class Chinese women. Race, gender, and class relations inform and at the same time are informed by the institutional processes of Canadian immigration policies, and such practices are modified and transformed through historical, social and political fluctuations. Using information deriving from in-depth interviews, the everyday experiences of middle class Chinese immigrant women who have recently immigrated from Hong Kong is investigated. How these women's lives have been transformed due to institutional processes, as well as the difference in the social organization of Canadian society vis-a-vis Hong Kong society, are examined.

Internalization of ideal beauty among Chinese immigrant women

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 375-396
Author(s):  
Hojung Choo ◽  
Yoonja Nam ◽  
Soonyoung Kim ◽  
Jinah Son
Keyword(s):  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Chinese Immigrant ◽  
Chinese Immigrant Women

scholarly journals Acculturation and Insulin Resistance Among US Chinese Immigrant Women

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn Tseng ◽  
Carolyn Y. Fang
Keyword(s):  
Insulin Resistance ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Disease Risk ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Chinese Immigrants ◽  
Chinese Immigrant ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Chronic Disease Risk ◽  
Chinese Immigrant Women ◽  
Homa Score

<p class="Pa7"><strong>Objective: </strong>Chinese immigrants in the Unit­ed States undergo a transition to increased chronic disease risk commonly attributed to acculturative changes. Longitudinal data to confirm this are lacking. We examined acculturation in relation to insulin resistance in a sample of Chinese immigrant women to determine differences by level of education and possible mediation by anthropometry and diet.</p><p class="Pa7"><strong>Design: </strong>Longitudinal study.</p><p class="Pa7"><strong>Setting</strong><em>: </em>Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p><p class="Pa7"><strong>Participants: </strong>305 Chinese immigrant women recruited October 2005 to April 2008 and followed until April 2010.</p><p class="Pa7"><strong>Main Outcome Measures</strong><em>: </em>Association of acculturation, measured using the General Ethnicity Questionnaire – American version (GEQA), with homeostasis model assess­ment (HOMA) score as an indicator of insulin resistance, modeled using general­ized estimating equations to account for repeated measures over time.</p><p class="Pa7"><strong>Results: </strong>GEQA was associated with log HOMA score, but only in women with &lt;9 years of education (beta [SE] = .09 [.04], <em>P</em>=.02; interaction <em>P</em>=.02). The association persisted with adjustment for body mass index, waist circumference, and dietary variables.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings provide longitudinal evidence that insulin resistance increases with acculturation. However, the association was apparent only in less-edu­cated immigrants and may be mediated by a pathway other than changes in anthropom­etry and diet. <em>Ethn Dis. </em>2015;25(4):443-450; doi:10.18865/ed.25.4.443</p>

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