Gender and Sexuality in the Migrant Community

2021 ◽  
pp. 38-77
Author(s):  
Francisca Yuenki Lai
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Migrant Community ◽  
Asian Men ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
Dance Groups

The chapter examines the characteristics of the Indonesian migrant community in Hong Kong apart from serving as an outlet for socializing and relaxing. It documents the visibility of same-sex relationships among the pop dance groups in the migrant community. The author then discusses the sexual ideologies that circulate in these dance groups, including the fashion shows for tomboys (tomboi) and girls (cewek) respectively, the kin world established by the dance groups, and the satisfaction and meanings obtained from their same-sex relationships. The discussion includes how the women evaluate men, particularly Indonesian men, South Asian men, and Hong Kong men. It is noteworthy that their new experiences of same-sex intimacy in Hong Kong reshape their past experiences and relationship with their husband or boyfriend in Indonesia.

Discourses of Home, Gender, and Sexuality

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-37
Author(s):  
Francisca Yuenki Lai
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
The Social ◽  
Lgbt People

The chapter establishes the context for the specific gender and sexual subjectivities that the Indonesian migrant women in this study found desirable during their stay in Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, public attitudes toward LGBT people tend to be accepting. This allows migrant workers to make room for their same-sex intimate behaviors and relationships. The chapter discusses the social changes in Indonesia, including the anti-LGBT sentiment, and the raids on gay and lesbians in the country. The chapter also addresses the changing notions of family and womanhood given the fact that millions of Indonesian women left to work overseas.

Becoming multi-lingual in Hong Kong: The dilemmas of South Asian Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Linda Tsung ◽  
Eva Yi Hung Lau
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Asian Students

scholarly journals A 5-Day High-Fat, High-Calorie Diet Impairs Insulin Sensitivity in Healthy, Young South Asian Men but Not in Caucasian Men

Diabetes ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 248-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. E. H. Bakker ◽  
L. D. van Schinkel ◽  
B. Guigas ◽  
T. C. M. Streefland ◽  
J. T. Jonker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Insulin Sensitivity ◽  
South Asian ◽  
High Fat ◽  
Asian Men ◽  
Caucasian Men ◽  
Calorie Diet ◽  
High Calorie Diet ◽  
High Calorie

British Raj to China's Hong Kong: The rise of madrasas for ethnic Muslim youth

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 399-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
WAI-YIP HO
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Day School ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Religious Knowledge ◽  
British Raj ◽  
Muslim Youth ◽  
British Colonial

AbstractThe madrasa, the Islamic institution of learning, has for centuries occupied a central role in the transmission of religious knowledge and the shaping of the identity of the global Muslim community (umma). This paper explores the sharp rise in the number of madrasas in contemporary Hong Kong. It examines, in particular, how South Asian Muslim youth, after receiving a modern education in a conventional day school, remain faithful to their religious tradition by spending their evenings at a madrasa studying and memorizing the Qur'an. Engaging with the stereotypical bias of Islamophobia and national security concerns regarding the ties of madrasas to Islamic terrorist movements over the last decade, this paper argues that the burgeoning South Asian madrasa networks have to be understood in the context of Hong Kong's tripartite Islamic traditions—South Asian Muslim, Chinese Hui Muslims, and Indonesian Muslims—and within each Muslim community's unique expression of Islamic piety. Furthermore, the paper also identifies factors contributing to the increase in madrasas in Hong Kong after the transition from British colonial rule to China's resumption of sovereign power in 1997.

On the intersections of age, gender and sexualities in research on ageing

2019 ◽  
pp. 13-30
Author(s):  
Toni Calasanti
Keyword(s):  
Gay Men ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Age Relations ◽  
Original Concept ◽  
Sex Partner

This chapter outlines an intersectional lens that considers the impacts of age, gender, and sexualities on gay and lesbian elders.  It defines social inequalities and specify intersectionality as a theory of how they relate, drawing on Crenshaw’s (1991) original concept, which indicates how overlapping categorical status creates unique effects. It then outline the intersections of age, gender, and sexuality in the study of gay and lesbian elders.  It focuses in particular on age relations as this inequality is often left out of scholarship on gay men and lesbians, even that which focuses on elders.  The last part of the chapter suggests a model for research on same-sex partner caregiving that would illuminate intersections of gender, sexuality, and age in this context.

scholarly journals Ethnic differences in bone geometry between White, Black and South Asian men in the UK

Bone ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 91 ◽  
pp. 180-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Zengin ◽  
S.R. Pye ◽  
M.J. Cook ◽  
J.E. Adams ◽  
F.C.W. Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Ethnic Differences ◽  
Bone Geometry ◽  
Asian Men ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals Sexual rights, Religion and Post-Neoliberalism in Argentina (2003–2015)

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-101
Author(s):  
Daniel Jones ◽  
Lucía Ariza ◽  
Mario Pecheny
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Politics ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Sexual Rights ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Religious Actors

This paper examines the relation between sexual politics and post-neoliberalism/populism in Kirchners’ Argentina between 2003 and 2015, focusing on the role of religious actors. Despite the opposition of religious leaders, including that of Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio (now Pope Francis), Argentina advanced in the recognition of gender and sexual rights during the Kirchners’ administrations. Conflicts around gender and sexuality, particularly around same-sex marriage, explain some of the tensions between political and religious actors in the period. The focus of this paper on sexual politics shows that the Kirchners’ administrations, unlike other traditional populist or post-neoliberal administrations, had a strong liberal component, which explains the tensions between that populist government and conservative religious actors.

scholarly journals Policing Visible Sexual/Gender Diversity as a Program of Governance

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Dwyer
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
The Public ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Police Interactions

Using interview data on LGBT young people’s policing experiences, I argue policing and security works as a program of government (Dean 1999; Foucault 1991; Rose 1999) that constrains the visibilities of diverse sexuality and gender in public spaces. While young people narrated police actions as discriminatory, the interactions were complex and multi-faceted with police and security working to subtly constrain the public visibilities of ‘queerness’. Same sex affection, for instance, was visibly yet unverifiably (Mason 2002) regulated by police as a method of governing the boundaries of proper gender and sexuality in public. The paper concludes by noting how the visibility of police interactions with LGBT young people demonstrates to the public that public spaces are, and should remain, heterosexual spaces.

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