Scottish Centre for China Research

Dr Caroline Hoy

Caroline Hoy works for the Department of International Development but continues her interest in researching social science issues in China. Her PhD from the University of Leeds examined migration and reproductive health issues in Beijing. She is also interested in ethnic relations, demography and migration in urban and rural China. Caroline is currently examining the tricky issues around measuring, evaluating and understanding the changes associated with development programmes.

She can be contacted at: c-hoy@dfid.gov.uk

Selected publications

‘Migration in China: Reproductive and Sexual Health Issues’, Chapter 5 in Labour Migration and Social Development in China, edited by R. Murphy, London: Routledge, 2009

'Rural Migrants, Urban Migrants and Local Workers in Shanghai: Segmented or Competitive Labour Markets?' Built Environment 34:4, 2009, 499-516 (with Yu Chen)

'Socio-Impacts of Uyghur Movement to Beijing', Chapter 8 in China's Minorities on the Move: Selected Case Studies, edited by R. Iredale, N. Bilik, F. Guo, ME Sharpe, Armonk, NY, 2003 (with Q. Ren)

'Adolescents in China', Health and Place, 7, 2001, 261-271

Contemporary Minority Migration, Education and Ethnicity in China, London: Edward Elgar, 2001 (with R. Iredale, N. Bilik, F. Guo, S. Wang).