Hesitant Madams in a Global City: Japanese Expat Wives and their Global Householding in Hong Kong

Care work, once a sanctioned labor of love, is increasingly commodified in transnational contexts. The picture of migrant women shouldering the housework and child care of local professonal women may seem like a mutually beneficial arrangement—matching the “needs” of the haves and have-nots—, but the global care chain ultimately works to maintain the traditional gendered division of labor as well as global inequality. To this trend of globalization of care work, Japan has been an exception; however, how much longer it will be so is now in a question, as the government paves the way for importing domestic labor from abroad. This article focuses on Japanese expat wives in Hong Kong in order to locate Japanese women vis-à-vis the global care chain. The narrative analysis on how they decide whether to hire a domestic worker in their home away from home highlights the sociopolitical nature of their supposedly private choices. Some drew on cultural ideal of wifehood and motherhood to rationalize their choice while others referred to racialized or even overtly racist and classist images of foreign domestic workers. A few women spoke against the system itself, showing awareness of its inherent social injustice. All such narratives are never purely personal; their decisions and the rationalization behind them sustain the prevailing discourses of gender, race, ethnicity, culture, and class, which, in turn, envelop their attempts at global householding.     

政府购买居家养老服务的探索与发展——以济南市历下区为例

基于济南市历下区购买居家养老服务的实践,探讨了社区居家养老服务的时代背景,重点分析了历下区政府购买居家养老服务的运作模式,研究结果表明,在我国养老压力日益严峻的情况下,要完善政府购买居家养老服务模式,必须积极推进社区居家养老服务产业的发展;加大政策扶持力度,加强资金引导;培育社会组织,提高养老服务品质;实现政府购买居家养老服务的标准化运作,只有这样才能缓解养老压力,提高老年人生活质量,推动养老服务事业的发展。     

Using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) to Predict Emotional and Behavioral Difficulties on Positive and Negative Affect Among Adolescents in Disadvantaged Communities

The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) was used to predict the positive and negative affects of emotional and behavioral difficulties among adolescent boys and girls aged between 14 and 21 years living in disadvantaged communities. A total of 316 adolescents—181 boys and 135 girls—living in the Seri Pantai and Pantai Ria Public Housing Projects in Kuala Lumpur were invited to complete the questionnaire. The results showed that conduct and peer problems were the most prevalent emotional and behavioral difficulties experienced by these adolescents. As expected, the emotional symptoms were more common among the girls than the boys. A further analysis showed that emotional symptoms, peer problems, and low prosocial behavior were predictors of the negative affect of emotional and behavioral difficulties while negative emotional symptoms and high hyperactivity were predictors of a positive affect. The findings suggested that three subscales of SDQ are required to produce a negative affect, and two subscales of SDQ for a positive affect.     

Collective empowerment: A comparative study of community work in Mumbai and Stockholm

Mumbai and Stockholm are worlds apart in terms of public services, infrastructures and standard of living. However, both cities have known common problems of social exclusion and marginalisation related to neo‐liberal globalisation. Social workers are facing similar challenges regarding collective empowerment as a strategy for community work. This comparative study explored how collective empowerment is undertaken by community workers. The research participants were 13 informants from community‐work organisations in the two settings. Semi‐structured interviews were used and were analysed with the help of Atlas‐ti 6.2 (ATLAS.ti Scientific Software Development GmbH D‐10623 Berlin Germany). Social work in Mumbai is in a context of extreme poverty and mainly within the informal sector, whereas in Stockholm most social work is done in relation to a public welfare model. In Stockholm, interventions are aimed towards strengthening social networks, without direct aim at social change. In Mumbai, community workers organise people for collective empowerment to strengthen marginalised groups and achieve social change.     

北京城市社区数字化管理

北京作为中国的首都,在城市社区数字化建设方面成绩显著,但也存在着一些问题。本文在调查分析的基础上,提出了具体的解决方案,并就其未来发展作了展望。     

东亚合作的新态势及中国的战略选择

当前东亚合作形势出现了一些新态势:中国的兴起使"机遇论"和"威胁论"同时上升,外部环境更加复杂;美国重返东南亚,试图主导东亚及亚太合作进程;日澳等国提出区域合作新构想;东盟"大国平衡"战略更为明显,东亚合作政策将趋于内向保守。鉴于此,笔者提出了"一个重点(中美协调)"、"两个轴心(中日韩与东盟)"、"三个内环(10+1、10+3、10+6)"、"四个外围(APEC、ARF、SCO、ASEM)"的东亚合作战略构想。     

国际化社区治理研究——以北京市朝阳区为例

朝阳区是北京市境外人口比较集中的地区,在探索国际化社区建设方面积累了一定的经验。但社区管理体制、社区动员与社区参与等方面依然存在一些问题。国际化社区治理需要坚持存量盘活、增量添彩的基本原则,发挥党政资源优势,优化社区治理结构,引入契约合作模式,推广"三社互动",实现社会协同与公众参与。     

三农问题:日本的化解与中国的借鉴

当前三农问题,举国关注,而日本的化解经验多有借鉴之处,其特色:体制构造上的三位一体,农业发展路径的工业化扬弃,农民的非农化和兼业化及农村的城乡一体化。我国在参照日本经验的同时还可超越。     

西藏社区服务建设中存在的问题及对策

社区服务是社区建设的重要内容之一。西藏的社区服务刚刚起步,目前还存在一些困难和问题,今后要进一步转变政府职能,增加政府投入,加大社区设施建设力度,加强社区服务队伍建设,引导居民广泛参与社区活动,加强社区环境和社会治安治理,为全面建设小康西藏、平安西藏、和谐西藏、生态西藏打下坚实的基础。     

高校图书馆日文古籍文献价值的开发与利用

高校图书馆拥有很多古旧文献、古籍资料,这些文献如果得到妥善的利用,将有很高的经济价值和研究价值。而这类文献中有部分日文原文资料,大部分都是1945年以前旧日文资料,本文以这些旧日文献资料为例,通过对这些珍贵文献资料的来源、出版地、作者和出版背景、文献类型、文献内容进行挖掘、整理、翻译、解析和研究,使其有价值的东西展现出来,旨在为读者提供系统、完整的外文文献检索,以便更好地服务于高校及社会的广大科研工作者,服务于教学与科研。