8 results on '"Sam Wai Kam Yu"'
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2. Developing a ‘defamilisation framework’ to examine the strategies for promoting the adult worker model and women’s welfare in eight European countries
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Sam Wai Kam Yu, Ruby Chui Man Chau, and Iris Po Yee Lo
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Sociology and Political Science ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) - Abstract
This article is intended to explore the link between the study of defamilisation and that of the adult worker model. To meet this purpose, a defamilisation framework for studying issues concerning the adult worker model and defamilisation is developed. To show the empirical significance of these issues, evidence is drawn from a childcare gap typology covering eight European countries. Conducting these analytical tasks provides insights into the development of social work practices for enhancing women’s welfare.
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- 2023
3. Family and Work Lives of Lesbians in China: Implications for the Adult Worker Model
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Iris Po-Yee Lo, Emma H. Liu, and Sam Wai-Kam Yu
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Adult ,Male ,China ,Sexual and Gender Minorities ,Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,adult worker model ,male breadwinner model ,labour market ,assisted reproduction ,parent ,gender ,sexuality ,heteronormativity ,lesbian ,work-family policy ,Homosexuality, Female ,Humans ,Female ,Family Relations ,reproductive and urinary physiology - Abstract
This article examines the ways in which lesbians explore opportunities and navigate constraints in their family and work lives in urban China. It not only reveals Chinese lesbians’ difficulties in gaining equal access to the labour market and developing their desired family lives, but also discusses possible ways of enhancing the applicability of the adult worker model for sexual minority women. Previous research has indicated a shift from the male breadwinner model to the adult worker model, suggesting that both men and women are expected to join the labour market, and that women should not carry all the care responsibilities within the family. However, the model largely overlooks the interplay of gender and sexuality factors in shaping work and family lives. This article adopts a qualitative mixed-methods approach, including interviews with 20 Chinese lesbians and social media analysis, to examine lesbians’ experiences of taking part in the family as adults and in the wider economy as workers. It shows how gender norms, heteronormativity, and policy intersect in generating obstacles for Chinese lesbians to thrive as respectable adult workers. This has important implications for attempts to improve the adult worker model to fit better with people’s diverse work/family needs.
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- 2022
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4. Adult Worker Model Typologies: Examining Work–Family Policies in Fifteen European Countries
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Chui Man Chau, Iris Po Yee Lo, and Sam Wai-Kam Yu
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Adult ,Male ,Employment ,Europe ,Family Planning Policy ,Government ,Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Humans ,Female ,Social Welfare ,male-breadwinner model ,supported adult worker model ,gender gap ,labour force participation ,care work ,work–family policy ,welfare ,typology - Abstract
This article aims to advance the discussion of government policies for improving women’s work and family life. It focuses on exploring whether it is reasonable to expect that the supported adult worker model will play an important role in guiding governments to reduce the gender employment gap and, at the same time, increase women’s resources for strengthening their control over family and work life. This model posits that governments should take a proactive approach to encouraging women to take part in formal employment, such as providing care support measures. To examine the impact of the model, this article develops an ‘input adult worker model typology’ and an ‘output adult worker model typology’ using cluster analysis of comparative data covering 15 countries. The findings show that it is important not to overestimate the impact of the supported adult worker model on reducing the gender employment gap or increasing women’s control over their lives in most of the 15 countries. The evidence generated from these typologies highlights the difficulties involved in promoting women’s welfare despite the use of the adult worker model as a substitute for the male-breadwinner model.
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- 2022
5. The sensitivity of United Kingdom health-care services to the diverse needs of Chinese-origin older people.
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CHAU, RUBY C. M. and SAM WAI-KAM YU
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MEDICAL care , *OVERSEAS Chinese , *MEDICAL care for older people , *IMMIGRANTS , *CULTURAL awareness - Abstract
This paper is a contribution to the debate on how to make health-care services in the United Kingdom more responsive to the needs of older people who are members of recent immigrant groups. The focus is on the Chinese-origin elders, and the objective is to demonstrate their diverse migrant histories, cultural backgrounds and attitudes to both ' traditional ' and Western health-care practices. The underlying argument is that if National Health Service staff had a better understanding of the diversity of Chinese older people, this would make an important contribution to making the service more sensitive to their needs. To develop this argument, this paper carries out three main analytical tasks. The first is to discuss the range of strategies adopted by Chinese people in general and Chinese older people in particular to improve their health. The second is to study Chinese people's heritage of exploring different methods to organise health in response to foreign culture. The third considers the ways in which the sensitivity of British health-care services to the needs of ethnic-minority groups can be improved, with a focus on the culturagram instrument and procedure. Three contrasting examples are presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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6. THE IDEOLOGICAL ORIENTATION OF THE NEW DAWN PROJECT.
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SAM WAI-KAM YU
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PUBLIC welfare ,SOCIAL isolation ,MARKET value ,LABOR market ,SINGLE parents ,SOCIAL security ,HUMAN services - Abstract
This paper is concerned with the ideological dimension of the New Dawn project. It focuses on two analytical tasks. The first is to show that this project is not an independent reform measure. Instead it is a part of a series of pro-market welfare-to-work programmes launched by the Government to tackle social exclusion. The second is concerned with the debate on the desirability of this project in reducing social exclusion. As the design of this project is heavily indebted to market values, it is highly supported by those analysts and policy-makers who stress the importance of the labour market in helping socially excluded groups achieve social inclusion but it receives criticisms from those analysts who question the ability of the private market in tackling social exclusion. By carrying out these two tasks, the paper raises our awareness of the fact that whether people support the New Dawn project or not reflects not only their judgment on the effectiveness of this project in meeting the needs of single parents and carers on the Comprehensive Social Security Assistance scheme but also their views on market ideologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
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7. The Sexual Division of Care in Mainland China and Hong Kong.
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Sam Wai Kam Yu and Ruby Chui Man Chau
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SEXUAL division of labor , *GENDER role , *CAPITALISM , *HOME labor , *HOME offices - Abstract
The concern of this paper is with the sexual division of care in Hong Kong, China, and mainland China. As will be seen in the later sections, women in China and Hong Kong are expected to take up far more caring responsibilities than men. The aim of this paper is to explore the extent to which the sexual division of domestic labour is influenced by traditional Chinese values and contemporary political and economic factors. Certainly an examination of the cultural factor sheds considerable light on the gender division of care. However, it is still not sufficient to help us understand the whole picture. Attention should also be paid to the political and economic factors. The state policy occupies a central role in reinforcing the social construction of caring relationships. To understand the social construction of women as carers in traditional Chinese society, it is necessary to study the nature of the family because most of the care-giving processes take place in the domestic sphere. Hong Kong is located on the south coast of China. Of the 6 million population, over 90% are Chinese. It is often seen by the world as a typical capitalist society.
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- 1997
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8. Hong Kong Government's Strategy for Promoting Home Ownership - An Approach to Reducing the Decommodifying Effects of Public Housing Services.
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Sam Wai Kam Yu
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HOUSING policy , *CAPITALISM , *HOUSING development , *SOCIAL services , *PUBLIC welfare , *COMMERCIALIZATION - Abstract
Over the past few decades, there have been a number of studies on the positive and negative effects of social services on capitalism. They share a common conclusion that social services are in a contradictory relation to the economic and political development's capitalist states. Hence, alongside providing social services, it is common to find that capitalist states try to reduce the decommodifying effects of social services. Certainly, the effectiveness of this strategy in dealing with the economic and political programmes has been subject to controversy. There are two ideal approaches to curtailing the decommodifying effects of public housing services to provide public housing services as residual services and as commercial services. The first part is a discussion of what the Hong Kong Government considers to be the ideal approaches to reducing the decommodifying effects of public housing services--commercialization and residualization. The second part is a brief history of public housing services in Hong Kong, China. The third part discusses three assisted home purchase measures used by the government to reduce the decommodifying effects of public housing services and how they are related to the commercialization and residualization measure.
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- 1997
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