DAI Haijing

Dai Haijing

Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Research Interest
Community Organizing and Development, State and Civil Society, Poverty and Social Inequality, Resistance and Collective Action, Welfare Policies and Social Services, Reforms and Contentions in Post-socialist China, Ethnography

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Dai Haijing – Department of Social Work, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Haijing DAI is an associate professor of social work at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her PHD degree in social work and sociology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research explores how gender and inter-generational dynamics in household division of labor, family care arrangement, and family life interact with socio-economic and welfare-system changes in Chinese societies, and how new patterns of stratification and inequality are constructed in these process. Her articles have appeared in Social Service Review, British Journal of Social Work, Journal of Social Policy, The China Review, Social Forces, and Journal of Family Issues.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • ​Dai, H., Jiang, N., & Li, R. (2022). Social worker turnover under the Lump Sum Grant Subvention System in Hong Kong: Organization-level analyses. British Journal of Social Work.
  • Dai, H., Jung, N., Li, N., & Hu, M. (2022). Market merits and family virtues: Family caregivers in the labor market of Hong Kong. The China Review.
  • Dai, H., Lau, Y., & Lee, K. (2019). Social innovation, value penetration, and the power of the nonprofit sector: Workers’ co-operative societies in Hong Kong. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 48(6), 1210-1228.
  • Dai, H. (2019). Embracing urbanity: Childcare arrangements and motherhood anxiety in China’s urban transition. Journal of Family Issues, 40(17), 2389–2411.
  • Dai, H. (2016). From personal ties to village welfare: Changing community bonding in post-socialist rural China. Community Development Journal, 51(4), 517-533.
  • Dai, H. (2016). The making of “modern female workers” in reemployment programs in post-socialist China. Social Service Review, 90(2), 235-263.
  • Dai, H. (2014). The discontents of reform: Boundary work and welfare stigma at mixed elder homes in China. Journal of Social Policy, 43(3), 497-515.
  • Dai, H. (2014). To build an extended family: Feminist organizational design and its dilemmas in women-led non-governmental elder homes in China. Social Forces, 92(3), 1115-1134.​
  • Dai, H. (2014). Care for whom: Diverse institutional orientations of non-governmental elder homes in contemporary China. British Journal of Social Work, 44(7), 1914-1933.

SELECTED PROJECTS

  • Family Care Work and Employment Outcomes in Chinese Societies (Collaborator: Center for Chinese Family Studies, HKIAPS)
  • Social Work Professionalization and Development in Chinese Societies
  • Employment and Social Security and Family Life of Precarious Labor in China’s Platform Economy (Collaborator: Zhejiang University)