The 4th International Conference on Population Geographies, 10-13 July 2007, Hong Kong

 

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME: Session C2-C7

 

2C. Urban Neighbourhood and Ethnicity (1) (11 July 2007)

Chair: Eric FONG, U. of Toronto

 

11:10 The Social Ecology of Public Space: Street Activity and Violent Crime in Urban Neighborhoods

Christopher R. BROWNING1 and Kathleen CAGNEY2, 1Ohio State U., 2U. of Chicago, USA

 

11:30 Neighbourhood Change… Reason to Leave?

Peteke FEIJTEN and Maarten van HAM, U. of St Andrews, UK

 

11:50 The Contextual Effects of Built and Social Environment of Urban Neighborhoods on Physical Activity: A Multilevel Study in Chicago [ppt]
Ming WEN1 and Xingyou ZHANG2,  1U. of Utah, 2American Academy of Family Physicians, USA

 

12:10 Geographical Distances and Support from Family Members [ppt]

Clara H. MULDER and Marieke van der MEER, U. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

3C. Urban Neighbourhood and Ethnicity (2) (11 July 2007)

Chair: Kathleen CAGNEY, U. of Chicago

 

14:00 Population Change in a ‘Divided Society’:  Internal Migration, Residential Segregation, and Contested Discourses in Northern Ireland [ppt]

Gemma CATNEY, Queen’s U., UK
 

14:20 The Spatial Scale of Residential Segregation in Northern Ireland, 1991–2001 [ppt]

C. D.  LLOYD1, I. G. SHUTTLEWORTH1 and D. J. MARTIN2, 1Queen’s U., Belfast, 2U. of Southampton, UK

 

14:40 Racial/Ethnic Mixing among US Metropolitan Areas [ppt]
Lawrence A. BROWN and Madhuri SHARMA, Ohio State U., USA

 

15:00 Multicultural Challenge to Ethnicity, Citizenship and Migration Policy in Republic of Korea

Daesung KWON, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific U., Japan

 

15:20 Ethnic Business Distribution in Multiethnic Cities [ppt]
Eric FONG, Emily ANDERSON, Wenhong CHEN and Chiu LUK, U. of Toronto, Canada

 

4C. Population Geographies in Developing Areas: Problems, Opportunities, Experiences (11 July 2007)

Organizers: Doris SCHMIED (U. of Bayreuth) and Fantina PEDROSA (U. of Porto)

Chair: Doris SCHMIED, U. of Bayreuth

 

16:30 Slums of Hope and Slums of Despair:  Mobility and Livelihoods in Nima, Accra [ppt]

Samuel AGYEI-MENSAH1, George OWUSU2 and Ragnhild LUND3, 1,2U. of Ghana, Ghana, 3Norwegian U. of Science and Technology, Norway

 

16:50 ‘I Wish I Could Live Here’: Tourism and British Settlement in the Gambia

Hazel BARRETT, Coventry U., UK

 

17:10 The Representation of Culture in African Censuses

Doris SCHMIED, U. of Bayreuth, Germany

 

17:30 Vietnamese Minority in the Czech Republic: Development and Dynamics at the Turn of Millennium [ppt]

Jaroslav DOKOUPIL and Jiri PREIS, West Bohemia U. in Plzen, Czech Republic

 

17:50 Vulnerabilities of the Elderly People in Poland: Changes of the Needs of an Ageing Society [ppt]

Alina POTRYKOWSKA, The Governmental Population Council of Poland, Poland

 

5C. Migration and Urbanization in China (1) (12 July 2007)

Chair: Si-ming LI, Hong Kong Baptist U.

 

8:40 The Evolution of China’s Quasi-urban Populations and Their Incorporation in China’s Rural and Urban Planning: New Evidences and New Issues

Yu ZHU, Fujian Normal U., China and Australian National U., Australia

 

9:00 Hukou Identity, Education and Migration: The Case of Guangdong [ppt] [Paper.pdf]

Jianfa SHEN, The Chinese U. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

 

9:20 The Settlement of Rural Women Migrants in Urban China - Some of China’s Migrants Are Not “Floating” Anymore [ppt]

Rachel CONNELLY1, Kenneth ROBERTS2 and Zhenzhen ZHENG3, 1Bowdoin College, 2Southwestern U., USA, 3Chinese Academy of Social Science, China

 

9:40 China’s Floating Population: An Analysis of Spatial Structure  [ppt]

Chaolin GU1, Ian G. COOK2, Chuangeng ZHU1, Ronghua MA1 and Taofang YU1,

1Tsinghua U., China, 2Liverpool John Moores U., UK

 

10:00 To Serve or to Manage? Migrant Civil Society Organisations in China

Jennifer HSU, U. of Cambridge, UK

 

6C. Migration and Urbanization in China (2) (12 July 2007)

Chair: C. Cindy FAN, U. of California, Los Angeles

 

11:10 Urban Restructuring and Changing Accessibility: An Analysis of Guangzhou [ppt]

Si-ming LI, Hong Kong Baptist U., Hong Kong.

 

11:30 Urbanization Progress and Megalopolis Restructuring in the Yangtze Delta Region [ppt]

Yuemin NING and Jian LI, East China Normal U., China

 

11:50 Social Integration of Urban Immigrant Population in Urbanization Process of China: Case Study of Shanghai [ppt]

Guixin WANG , Fudan U., China

 

12:10 Lives on the Borderland: Urban Transition in Shanghai

Deljana IOSSIFOVA, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

 

7C. Sex Work and Border Anxieties (12 July 2007)

Organizer: Sealing CHENG (Wellesley College)

Chair: Sealing CHENG, Wellesley College

 

14:00 The Sexual Politics of the New Abolitionism: Imagery and Activism in Contemporary U.S. Campaigns against the “Traffic in Women”

Elizabeth BERNSTEIN, Columbia U., USA

 

14:20 Anti-trafficking or Anti-prostitution? A Critical Analysis of Anti-trafficking Efforts in South Korea [ppt]

Sealing CHENG, Wellesley College, USA

 

14:40 Male Sex Work, Social Transformation, and Border Anxiety: An Ethnographic Analysis of the Dominican Tourism Industry

Mark PADILLA, U. of Michigan, USA

 

15:00 Anti-trafficking Discourses and National Identity in the United States:

A Historical Perspective

Kerwin KAYE, New York U., USA