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GLOBAL HONG KONG : POST-2019 MIGRATION AND THE NEW HONG KONG DIASPORA
Date: March 27, 2026
Time: 9 pm Hong Kong Time ; 8 am Central Time; 9 am Eastern Time; 6 am Pacific Time
Speaker: Yuk Wah Chan, City University of Hong Kong
Discussant: Maggie Shum, Penn State, Erie
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This book seminar examines the post-2019 outmigration waves from Hong Kong, after the city witnessed a series of social protests. It discusses Hong Kong migrants’ migration and settlement experiences, their adaptation and identity changes in the new home. It also provides glimpses into the impacts of migration on HK’s population dynamics. While Hong Kong people are not new to migration, these recent migration waves do feature a community of Hong Kongers, who cling to a specific Hong Kong spirit, and forge a unique Hong Kong diaspora globally. This book provides a case from Asia demonstrating how migration evolves in the age of globalization and hypermobility, alongside global geopolitics and the fast changing social and political environment in the region. The book is a part of the Routledge Series on Asian Migration.
The book is available for purchase here. You can enjoy a 20% discount with this promotion code: 26AEV1.
Speaker
Yuk Wah Chan is Associate Professor at City University of Hong Kong. She is an anthropologist and her research interests cover international migration and diaspora studies, borderlands, identity and food studies. Her publications include The Chinese / Vietnamese Diaspora - Revisiting the Boat People (2011), Vietnamese-Chinese Relationships at the Borderlands: Trade, Tourism and Cultural Politics (2013), New Chinese Migrations: Mobility, Home, and Inspirations (2018), and Global Hong Kong: Post-2019 Migration and the New Hong Kong Diaspora (2025). Her research articles appeared in a variety of academic journals. She is Editor of the Routledge Series on Asian Migration.
Discussant
Dr. Maggie Shum is an assistant professor of political science at Penn State Erie, the Behrend College. She received her PhD in political science at the University of Notre Dame, specializing in comparative politics with two regional focuses in Latin America and East Asia (Hong Kong and Taiwan). Her research interests include transnational contentious politics, social movement, diasporas politics, party organization, participatory institutions, and public opinion. Dr. Shum is currently working on research projects focusing on how Hong Kong diasporas (re)construct their collective identity abroad, and how they navigate between the concerns of the homeland and their well-being in the host country such as the US. Her academic works have been published or accepted in Journal of Asian and African Studies, and Japanese Journal of Political Science, and her policy writings on Hong Kong can be found in the Monkey Cage in the Washington Post, Mischief of Factions, and the Diplomat. In addition, she pens the Freedom of the World report on Hong Kong, and serves as the country expert on Hong Kong in the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem).
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