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Book Chapter: Using Social Networks to Exit Hong Kong
| Title | Using Social Networks to Exit Hong Kong |
|---|---|
| Authors | |
| Issue Date | 1999 |
| Publisher | Westview Press. |
| Citation | Using Social Networks to Exit Hong Kong. In Wellman, B (Ed.), Networks in the Global Village: Life in Contemporary Communities, p. 299-330. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1999 How to Cite? |
| Abstract | On July 1, 1997, the red flag of the People’s Republic of China was hoisted over Hong Kong as the British colony reverted to China. This looming event gave rise to great anxiety in Hong Kong for more than a decade. It was widely believed in the West that most Hong Kong families fled for political reasons. But, if that were the case, emigrants and nonemigrants would differ mainly by their political views, or by the economic backing to act on these views. Our study finds that this is not the case. Instead, emigrants and nonemigrants differ mainly by their social networks. Emigrants are linked abroad through kin and friends and other people close to them, while the nonemigrants have constructed few of these ties. |
| Description | eBook version published by Routledge in 2018. |
| Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/117637 |
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| DC Field | Value | Language |
|---|---|---|
| dc.contributor.author | Salaff, JW | en_HK |
| dc.contributor.author | Fong, E | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Wong, SL | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-09-26T07:26:35Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2010-09-26T07:26:35Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 1999 | en_HK |
| dc.identifier.citation | Using Social Networks to Exit Hong Kong. In Wellman, B (Ed.), Networks in the Global Village: Life in Contemporary Communities, p. 299-330. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1999 | en_HK |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 9780813368214 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/117637 | - |
| dc.description | eBook version published by Routledge in 2018. | - |
| dc.description.abstract | On July 1, 1997, the red flag of the People’s Republic of China was hoisted over Hong Kong as the British colony reverted to China. This looming event gave rise to great anxiety in Hong Kong for more than a decade. It was widely believed in the West that most Hong Kong families fled for political reasons. But, if that were the case, emigrants and nonemigrants would differ mainly by their political views, or by the economic backing to act on these views. Our study finds that this is not the case. Instead, emigrants and nonemigrants differ mainly by their social networks. Emigrants are linked abroad through kin and friends and other people close to them, while the nonemigrants have constructed few of these ties. | - |
| dc.language | eng | en_HK |
| dc.publisher | Westview Press. | en_HK |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Networks in the Global Village: Life in Contemporary Communities | en_HK |
| dc.title | Using Social Networks to Exit Hong Kong | en_HK |
| dc.type | Book_Chapter | en_HK |
| dc.identifier.email | Wong, SL: slwong@hkucc.hku.hk | en_HK |
| dc.identifier.authority | Wong, SL=rp00881 | en_HK |
| dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.4324/9780429498718-10 | - |
| dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85050765207 | - |
| dc.identifier.hkuros | 58420 | en_HK |
| dc.identifier.spage | 299 | - |
| dc.identifier.epage | 330 | en_HK |