Place qualities, sense of place and subjective well-being: a study of two typical urban neighbourhoods in Hong Kong

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Mee Kam Ng ◽  
Tsz Chun Yeung ◽  
Mei-Po Kwan ◽  
Hendrik Tieben ◽  
Tony Yuk Tai Lau ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Urban Neighbourhoods

Conceptualizing religious asylum: Security, religiosity, and subjective well-being of Christian asylum-seekers in Hong Kong

2021 ◽  
pp. 011719682110678
Author(s):  
Terence Chun Tat Shum
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychosocial Distress ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Positive Sense

This article proposes the concept of religious asylum to examine how Christian asylum-seekers utilize religion to cope with their emotional experiences, induced by a sense of insecurity, during prolonged displacement. Drawing from interviews and ethnographic observations of people seeking asylum in Hong Kong, this research determines that asylum-seekers use religion to redefine their positive sense of self beyond their current situation, which is central to the construct of well-being. While religion supports asylum-seekers going through psychosocial distress and suffering, this discussion on religious asylum shows how asylum-seekers utilize the religiously inflected space to make the experience of prolonged displacement meaningful.

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