LAI, Francisca Yuen-Ki (賴婉琪)

​Position:Assistant Professor
Joint Appointment:Institute of Anthropology
Tel:866-3-5742842​
laiyk@mx.nthu.edu.tw
​Research interests:Cultural anthropology; gender and queer studies; migrant workers; social movements; gerontology
Personal webpage

Education

  • PhD, Cultural Anthropology, Purdue University, Indiana, USA
  • MPhil, Gender Studies (Anthropology), Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • BSSc, Sociology, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Previous academic positions

  • Lecturer, College of International Education, Hong Kong Baptist University, 2015-2019
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014-2015
  • Part-time Lecturer, Dept. of Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010-2012
  • Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Anthropology, Purdue University, USA, 2008-2010, 2012-2014

Specialization

Cultural anthropology; gender and queer studies; migrant workers; social movements; gerontology

Publications

(A) BOOK

(B) JOURNAL PAPERS

  • Lai, Y. K. (2022)“Review of Ways of Home Making in Care for Later Life, by Bernike Pasveer, Oddgeir Synness, and Ingunn Moser, eds.” Anthropology & Aging 43:2 (October/November). (Scopus)
  • Lai, Y. K. (June 2021)“Migrant Workers and LGBT Activism: A Comparative Study of Filipino and Indonesian Domestic Workers in Hong Kong.” Sexualities.
    https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607211025903.
  • Lai, Y. K. (2018). “Migrant and Lesbian Activism in Hong Kong: A Critical Review of Grassroots Politics”. Asian Anthropology.
    https://doi.org/10.1080/1683478X.2018.1461053
  • Lai, Y. K. (2017). “Sexuality at Imagined Home: Same-Sex Desires among Indonesian Domestic Workers in Hong Kong”. In special issue, “Anthropology’s Queer Sensibilities,”Sexualities. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460716677286

(C) BOOK CHAPTERS

  • Chan, K. K. & Lai, Y. K. (2019). Gender Inequity. In Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Danan Gu and Matthew E. Dupre, eds. Springer. 
  • Choi, M. K., Kam, Y. L. & Lai, Y. K. (2018). Hong Kong’s LGBT Movement after the Millennium: Alliance, Conflict, and Limitation. In An Epoch of Social Movements: The Trajectory of Contentious Politics in Hong Kong. Edmund Cheng and Samson Yuen, eds. Pp. 115-140. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press. (in Chinese) 
  • Lai, Y. K. (2018). Celebrating the Independence Day of Indonesia. In What are We Celebrating: Multicultural Festivals in Hong Kong. Siumi Tam and Wai-man Tang, eds. Pp. 116-125. Hong Kong: Wheatear Publishing. (in Chinese) 
  • Lai, Y. K. (2017). Negotiating Gender Ambiguity: Migrant Workers and their Hong Kong Employers. In My City My Sex: The Everyday Gender/Sexuality of Hong Kong. Kam, Cho & Lai eds. Pp. 97-101. Hong Kong: Roundtable. (in Chinese)
  • Lai, Y. K. (2015). “Tomboi (Indonesia)”. In Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality. Patricia Whelehan and Anne Bolin, eds. Malden, Oxford: John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.
  • Lai, Y. K. (2007). “Lesbian Masculinities: Identity and Body Construction among Tomboys in Hong Kong”. In Women’s Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia. Saskia E. Wieringa, Evelyn Blackwood, and Abha Bhaiya, eds. Pp. 159-179. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Lai, Y. K. (2006). Tomboy Masculinities: Identity and Body Construction. In Sexual Politics. Yau Ching, ed. Pp. 216-225. Hong Kong: Cosmos Books. (in Chinese)

(D) EDITED BOOK

  • Kam, Y, L., Cho, M. K. & Lai, Y. K. eds. 2017. My City My Sex: The Everyday Gender/Sexuality of Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Roundtable. (in Chinese) 

(E) PRESENTATIONS

  • “Transnational LGBT Activism: Migrants’ Pride in Hong Kong.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Vancouver, Canada (2019). 
  • “Migrant Activism: A Critical Review with a Sexual Dimension.” International Workshop Global South Perspectives. Hong Kong (2018).
  • “Queering Multiculturalism and Querying Happiness.” East Asian Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Hong Kong (2017).
  • “Citizenship on the Move: Lesbian Rights and Indonesian Migrant Workers in Hong Kong.”The Sixth Asian Conference on Cultural Studies. Kobe, Japan (2016).
  • Panel Organizer and Presenter. “Remaking the Space of Home.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society International Conference. Surabaya, Indonesia (2015).
  • “From Friendship to Kinship: A Same-Sex Community among Indonesian Domestic Workers in Hong Kong.” Association for Asian Studies. Chicago (2015).
  • “Families We Want: Changing Meanings of Home in Transnational Migrant Circuits.”American Ethnological Society, Chicago (2013).
  • “Sexualities in Transnational Migrant Circuits: Indonesian Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco (2012).
  • “Lesbian Masculinities in Hong Kong.” International Female Masculinities Symposium, University of Amsterdam (2008).

Classes taught

  • Gender and Sexuality across Cultures (性別、性與人類學)
  • Classic Works of Sociology(社會學經典名著)
  • Social and Cultural Analysis: Cross-cultural Comparison(社會文化分析: 跨文化比較)