Yuk-Lin Renita Wong
Kinsmen Building
416-736-2100 x-66322
rylwong@yorku.ca
Research Interests:
Critical social work, Ethnospecific community mental health, Identity and divesity, Gender
and migration, Postcolonialism and international social work, Spirituality and social
activism.
Selected Publications:
Forthcoming - "Immigration as subject-making: Personal narratives, interstitial
agency, and resistance of immigrant women from East and Southeast Asia." In Celebrating
resistance: WORKing from a critical race perspective. Ed. by Zabeda
Nazim, Rick Sun and Deborah Barnes.
Forthcoming - "Rethinking self-awareness in cultural competence: Towards a dialogic self in cross-cultural social work." Families in Society. (Second author, with Miu Chung Yan).
2004 (Forthcoming) - "When Asian immigrant women speak: From mental health to strategies of social work pedagogy." American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 74(4). (First author, with A. Ka Tat Tsang).
2004 (Forthcoming) - "Knowing through discomfort: A mindfulness-based critical social work pedagogy." Critical Social Work 4(1).
2004 "When East meets West: Nation, colony, and Hong Kong women's subjectivities in gender and China-development." Modern China 30(2): 259-292.
2003 "Deconstructing culture in cultural competence: Dissenting voices from Asian-Canadian practitioners." Canadian Social Work Review 20(2): 149-167.
2002 - Wong, Yuk-Lin Renita. "Reclaiming Chinese women's
subjectivities: Indigenizing 'social work with women' in China through postcolonial
ethnography." Women's Studies International Forum 25 (1): 1-11.
2002 - Wong, Yuk-Lin Renita. "Going 'back' and staying 'out': Articulating the
postcolonial Hong Kong subjects in the development of China." Journal of Contemporary
China 11: 141-160.
1998 - Hsiung, Ping-chun and Yuk-Lin Renita Wong. "Jie Gui - Connecting the tracks:
Chinese women's activism surrounding the 1995 World Conference on Women in Beijing."
Gender & History 10 (3): 470-497.
1997 - Wellman, Barry, Yuk-Lin Renita Wong, David Tindall and Nancy Nazer. "A decade
of network change: Turnover, persistence and stability in personal communities."
Social Networks 19(1): 27-50.
1997 - Wong, Yuk-Lin Renita. "A life of resilience and integrity: Madam Lee's life
history." in Crying and laughing: An oral history of Hong Kong senior women. Ed. by
Association for the Advancement of Feminism. Hong Kong: Association for the Advancement of
Feminism.
1997 - Wong, Yuk-Lin Renita. "Dispersing the 'public' and the 'private': Gender and
the state in the birth planning policy of China." Gender & Society 11(4):
509-525.
1996 - Wong, Yuk-Lin Renita. "Research partnerships: Two case studies in
Ontario." in Research partnerships: A feminist approach to communities and
universities working together. Ed. by Cottrell, Barbara, Stella Lord, Lise Martin and
Susan Prentice. Ottawa: Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women.
Funded Research:
2003-05 Co-investigator, "Voices under Patriarchy and Capitalism: Life
Histories of Women Garment Workers in Hong Kong, 1950-2000", funded by the Social
Science and Education Direct Grant of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
2001 - 04 Co-Investigator, "Changing Work, Changing Lives: Mapping the Canadian
Garment Industry," funded by SSHRC.
2001 - 03 Principal Investigator, "Promoting Mental Health
Among East and Southeast Asian Immigrant/Refugee Women in Ontario," funded by Ontario
Women's Health Council, in partnership with Hong Fook Mental Health Association.
Conference Presentations:
2003 “Imagining
and Living in the ‘West’: Chinese professional women negotiating their ruptured
subjectivities in
2003
“Being and doing: The challenges of putting anti-racist theories to work.” Panel presentation with Barbara Heron and Donna Jeffery in the Canadian Association for2002
“Changing lives, shifting selves: Experiences of mental health among East and Southeast Asian immigrant women in2002 "Living Asian womanhood in Canada: Asian-Canadian women's strategies of 'self'," presented in the Panel titled, From Oriental to Asian: A social-historical retrospective on the meaning of Asian 'womanhood'. In the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association Annual Conference in the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. Toronto, Canada. May 25-June 1.
2001 "Practising mindfulness: A spiritually engaged pedagogy
for critical social work," in the conference of Canadian Association for School of
Social Work in the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Quebec City, Canada
(May 23-30).
2000 - "In the dance of power: Carving out a spiritual path in the pedagogy for
social justice," presented in the convference "Feminist utopias:
Redefining our projects," organized by Institute for Women's Studies and Gender
Studies, University of Toronto (November 9-11).
2000 - "Ethnographic research as a means of activism in contemporary China," co-presented with Ping-chun Hsiung in the 17th Qualitative Analysis Conference, organized by the University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University at Fredericton, New Brunswick, (May 18-21).
1999 - "In-Between Colonialism and Nationalism: Constructing
Hong Kong-Chinese Identities in the Development of China." presented at the
conference on "China Ten Years After Tiananmen" organized by The Joint Centre
for Asia Pacific Studies, University of Toronto and York University (June 4-6).
1999 - " 'We're almost the same, but not quite': The imagined sisterhood of Hong Kong
women with Mainland women in China-development." presented at the conference
organised by Harvard University Fairbank Centre for East Asian Research Gender Studies
Group, Tufts University Womens Studies Program, and Chinese Society for Women's Studies;
Boston, (March 10-11).
1998 - "Travelling in and out: Negotiating a space in the development of China."
presented at the conference organized by The Canadian Asian Studies Association under the
the auspices of the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Ottawa
(June 2-5).
1998 - "Narrating the self: Agent and victim through the eyes of Hong Kong elderly
women." presented at the workshop on "Women, Society and Culture in Hong
Kong", organized by The Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, University of Toronto
and York University, (April 9).
1997 - "Developing the Chinese nation from the margin: The participation of people of
Hong Kong in the development of China." presented at the conference on "Old
Cities, New Masters", organized by the American Anthropological Association,
Washington DC, (November 19-23).
Selected Invited Presentations and Workshops:
2004 “Communications Skills in Cross-cultural Crisis Work," Co-faciliated with Dr. Kenneth Fung. In the Crisis Workers Society of Ontario 20th Anniversary Conference. Toronto, Canada. June 9-11.
2003 The
“Promoting mental health among East and Southeast Asian immigrant/refugee women in
2002 “Education
and decolonization: Research and reflection on girls’ education of the Miao ethnic
group in
2002
“Feminist pedagogy: Designing course assignments,” in the conference titled, Developing Gender Studies Curriculum and Feminist Pedagogy in China, organized by the Centre for Women’s Studies at Zhongshan University.2002 “Challenging
stereotypes, embracing diversity: Developing culturally competent practices with East and
Southeast Asian immigrant/refugee women,” in the Hong Fook Annual Conference.
2002 "The
Practice of Feminist Pedagogy," in the Feminist Pedagogy and Program Development in
the Women’s Studies Summer Institute organized by
2002 "Mindfulness-based Pedagogy for Critical Social Work," in Spiritual Diversity and Social Work: The First Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Spirituality and Social Work, in conjuction with the Canadian Association for School of Social Work Annual Conference, in the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. Toronto, Canada. May 25-June 1.
Selected Scholarly and Professional Activities:
2004-2005 Consultant, Consumer/Survivor Self-Help Initiatives of Hong Fook Mental Health Association
2001- present Editorial Board Member, International Social Work
2000 - present Research Advisory Committee Member, Asian Community AIDS Service
2000-2005
International Consultant, “Women's Studies Curriculum Development inUpdated: 30-September-2004