Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences - Migration Cluster
News & Events
26 APRIL 2013Lunchtime Seminar: Family Complexity and Intergenerational Relations |
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19 April 2013Lunchtime Seminar: Behind the Academic Curtain: How to Find Success and Happiness with a PhD. Speaker: Professor Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., University of PennsylvaniaChair: Professor Chua Beng Huat of Sociology Department |
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9 April 2013Public lecture: The transition to adulthood in the West: some potential "lessons" and potential dilemmas for Asia |
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22 MAR 2013Lunchtime Seminar: Hiring domestic help and family well-being among Chinese couples in Hong Kong |
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15 MAR 2013Lunchtime Seminar: Television and International Family Change |
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8 MAR 2013Lunchtime Seminar: Unintended Advocacy: Foreign ownership and Workplace gender equity in Japan |
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29 January 2013Non-traditional Wife with the Traditional Husband: Gender Attitudes and Husband-to-Wife Violence in Hong Kong by Dr Adam Cheung |
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21 DECEMBER 2012Roundtable on Children’s agency in various contexts: family, health, social services and on the streets |
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7 DECEMBER 2012Lunchtime Seminar:Effect of Widowhood on Family Care Cost in the Chinese Elderly Population |
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6 DECEMBER 2012Lunchtime Seminar:Educational Expansion and Educational Achievement in Comparative Perspective (The event is joint-organised by the Sociology Department) Chair: Prof. Wei-Jun Jean Yeung |
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23 NOVEMBER 2012Brownbag Seminar: From College Aspirations to College Completion in the United States: Gender and Ethnic Disparities |
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15-16 NOVEMBER 2012Upcoming conference on marriages by Gavin Jones et al |
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19 October 2012Brownbag Seminar: Smoking quantity in old age in the context of retirement satisfaction, spousal smoking status, and gender |
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28 September 2012Brownbag Seminar: Using Normative Theory to Explain the Effect of Religion and Education on Volunteering |
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31 AUG 2012Brownbag Seminar: Challenge of the Aging Society and a New Vision for the Filial Piety -The Welfare Paradigm of Integrated Generations beyond the Blood Relations |
11-13 JULY 20123rd International Conference of Geographies of Children, Young People and Families (CGCYPF) |
25 JUNE 2012Seminar: The Anthropology and Demography of Gender Bias in Vietnam (Joint with Global Asia Institute) |
20 APRIL 2012Cluster Lunchtime Seminar: Impact of Internal Migration on Adolescents in Rural China |
27 JAN 2012Cluster Lunchtime Seminar: "The Trouble with Boys: Social Influences and the Gender Gap in Disruptive Behavior" by Dr Jessica Pan |
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16-17 DEC 2011Children-at-Risk Workshop (Joint with the Dept of Social Work) Click here for the Workshop Programme. |
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14 Nov 2011Trafficking in Women? Or Multicultural Family?: The Contextual Difference of Commodification of Intimacy by Dr Hyunok Lee, ARI (Joint with the Migration Cluter, FASS) |
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10 and 11 Nov 201111 NOV: Academic Redshirting in Hong Kong: Implications for the Educational Progress of Mainland Chinese Immigrant Students (Joint with the Singapore Management University) 10 NOV: School Achievement and College Access of Mainland Chinese Immigrant Students in Hong Kong by Prof Pong Suet-Ling, CUHK and Penn State U (Joint with the Migration Cluster, FASS) |
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28 OCT 2011Cluster Brownbag Seminar: Prof Jean Yeung |
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30 SEP 2011Cluster Brownbag Seminar:Political Economy of Social Mobility in Singapore by Dr Irene Ng |
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Updated Resources: 29 SEPNews Report for Transitions in Adulthood Conference |
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AUG 2011Cluster Brownbag Seminar:Prof Leon Kuczynski |
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27 JUL 2011Cluster Brownbag Seminar: Professor Robyn Longhurst |
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21-22th July 2011Transitioning to Adulthood: Marriage, Fertility, and Labour Force Participation |
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17 JUN 2011Educational Differences in Divorce in Japan by Professor James Raymo |
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16 JUN 2011Population Aging at the Local Level and Health at Older Ages in Japan by Professor James Raymo |
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24 MAy 2011China and the World in the Next Ten Years by Professor Yao Yang |
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23 May 2011Academic Seminar: The Cursed Virtue: Government Infrastructural Investment and Household Consumption in Chinese Provinces by Professor Yao Yang |
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20 May 2011Cluster Brownbag Seminar: Wives’ midlife work experience and couples’ joint retirement decision in later life in the United States by Dr Jeonghwa Ho |
About Us
The Family, Children and Youth Cluster in the National University of Singapore, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, is an interdisciplinary research cluster that focuses on the determinants and consequences of the well-being of family, children and youth and related public policies. The primary goal of this research cluster is to stimulate dialogue and foster cross disciplinary collaboration between students, faculty, researchers in the universities, practitioners, and policy makers so that together, critical issues and policies related to family well-being can be effectively identified and addressed. We also aim to bridge basic academic research with public policies that affect families and children. The distinctive approach of this cluster is its integration of both a life course and an international-comparative perspective into its framework. As such, the cluster members’ interests span across different age groups and regions of the world.
Cluster Aims
| Family-Work Balance |
Gender and Sexuality |
| Economic Stress and Family | Parental investments and Skill formation |
| Family, State, and Policy | Identify Formation & Subjectivity |
| Communications, Conflicts and Disruptions in the Family | Youth ‘politics’ and ‘Politics’, Political Identity/ activism, Citizenship |
| Race, Class, Gender and Family | Youth Participation and Agency |
| Social Change and Family | Intra-household Dynamics |
| Transnational/ Multicultural Families | Transition to Adulthood |
| Health and the Family | Intergenerational Mobility |
| Social Network and the Family | Intergenerational Transfer (Relationship/ Economic) |
| Aging, family relations, and policies | Marriage and Parenthood |
| Parent-Child Relationship | Fatherhood |
| Child Welfare and policy | Adoption |
| Childhoods | Adolescent Development |
Highlighted Projects
Internal Migration and Children’s Development in ChinaMembers involved: Prof. Wei-Jun Jean Yeung (NUS), Lu Yao (Columbia University) and Donald Treiman (UCLA) |
A Multidisciplinary Model to Promoting Longevity, Healthy and Successful AgingMembers involved: A/P Paulin STRAUGHAN |
Evaluation of Work Support Program in SingaporeMembers involved: Dr Irene Ng, Dr HO Kong Weng, Dr Mathew MATHEWS, Ms Tharmalingam Nesamani |
