Dr. WONG Muk Yan This project seeks to clarify and reformulate the conceptual relationship between emotions and moods in light of recent research in philosophy, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience. The argument is that the output of emotion, i.e. physiological and behavioral responses, can be monitored by a mood with respect to its influence on our bodily condition; and the…
Dr. NGAN Lok Sun, Lucille Return migrants now constitute a significant proportion of Hong Kong’s migrant population as there has been a high rate of repatriation of skilled, professional middle-class migrants who emigrated as children to Western countries before the 1997 handover. This study examines the fatherhood experiences of second–generation return migrants through exploring their negotiation of work, spousal…
Dr. HUNG Po Wah, Eva Transnational movement of goods, capital, and labor has become a taken-for-granted activity under globalization. Yet apart from sketchy records of criminal activities, cross-border exchanges through informal or illicit means are seldom studied. This is particularly so when many ordinary citizens take advantage of the grey areas in unregulated transactions. While the scope and extent…
