Education

• PhD, Cultural Anthropology, Purdue University, Indiana, USA
• MPhil, Gender Studies (Anthropology), Chinese University of Hong Kong
• BSSc, Sociology, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Previous academic positions

• Lecturer, College of International Education, Hong Kong Baptist University, 2015-2019
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014-2015
• Part-time Lecturer, Dept. of Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010-2012
• Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Anthropology, Purdue University, USA, 2008-2010, 2012-2014

Specialization

Cultural anthropology; gender and queer studies; migrant workers; social movements; gerontology

Publications

(A) BOOK

Lai, Francisca Yuenki. 2020. Maid to Queer: Same-Sex Desires among Indonesian Domestic Workers in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.

• Book description
• Anthropology News
• Book review on The News Lens
• Book review on Pink Alliance 
• Book review on Cha: An Asian Literary Journal 

(B) JOURNAL PAPERS

1. Lai, Francisca Yuenki. 2023. "Self-Care Practices at Community Centers: Motherhood in Later Life in Urban Taiwan." Social Sciences 12 (5): 263. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12050263. 
2. Lai, Francisca Yuenki. 2021. “Migrant Workers and LGBT Activism: A Comparative Study of Filipino and Indonesian Domestic Workers in Hong Kong.” Sexualities. Online first version (June 16, 2021). DOI: 10.1177/13634607211025903. 
3. Lai, Francisca Yuenki. 2018. “Migrant and Lesbian Activism in Hong Kong: A Critical Review of Grassroots Politics.” Asian Anthropology 17(2):135-150. DOI: 10.1080/1683478X.2018.1461053. 
4. Lai, Francisca Yuenki. 2018. “Sexuality at Imagined Home: Same-Sex Desires among Indonesian Domestic Workers in Hong Kong.” Sexualities 21(5–6):899-913. DOI: 10.1177/1363460716677286. 

(C) BOOK REVIEWS

1. Lai, Francisca Yuenki. 2022. “Review of Ways of Home Making in Care for Later Life, by Bernike Pasveer , Oddgeir Synness, and Ingunn Moser, eds.” Anthropology & Aging 43(2):102-104. DOI: 10.5195/aa.2022.430. Web of Science: ESCI
2. Lai, Francisca Yuenki. 2019. “Review of Follow the Maid: Domestic Worker Migration In and From Indonesia, by Olivia Killias.” Asian Anthropology 18(2): 135-137. DOI: 10.1080/1683478X.2018.1532060. Scopus  

(D) BOOK CHAPTERS

1. Chan, K. K. & Lai, Y. K. (2019). Gender Inequity. In Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Danan Gu and Matthew E. Dupre, eds. Springer. 
2. Choi, M. K., Kam, Y. L. & Lai, Y. K. (2018). Hong Kong’s LGBT Movement after the Millennium: Alliance, Conflict, and Limitation. In An Epoch of Social Movements: The Trajectory of Contentious Politics in Hong Kong. Edmund Cheng and Samson Yuen, eds. Pp. 115-140. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press. (in Chinese) 
3. Lai, Y. K. (2018). Celebrating the Independence Day of Indonesia. In What are We Celebrating: Multicultural Festivals in Hong Kong. Siumi Tam and Wai-man Tang, eds. Pp. 116-125. Hong Kong: Wheatear Publishing. (in Chinese) 
4. Lai, Y. K. (2017). Negotiating Gender Ambiguity: Migrant Workers and their Hong Kong Employers. In My City My Sex: The Everyday Gender/Sexuality of Hong Kong. Kam, Cho & Lai eds. Pp. 97-101. Hong Kong: Roundtable. (in Chinese)
5. Lai, Y. K. (2015). “Tomboi (Indonesia)”. In Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality. Patricia Whelehan and Anne Bolin, eds. Malden, Oxford: John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.
6. Lai, Y. K. (2007). “Lesbian Masculinities: Identity and Body Construction among Tomboys in Hong Kong”. In Women’s Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia. Saskia E. Wieringa, Evelyn Blackwood, and Abha Bhaiya, eds. Pp. 159-179. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
7. Lai, Y. K. (2006). Tomboy Masculinities: Identity and Body Construction. In Sexual Politics. Yau Ching, ed. Pp. 216-225. Hong Kong: Cosmos Books. (in Chinese)

(E) EDITED BOOK

Kam, Y, L., Cho, M. K. & Lai, Y. K. eds. 2017. My City My Sex: The Everyday Gender/Sexuality of Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Roundtable. (in Chinese) 

(F) PRESENTATIONS

1. “Self-Care as a Mothering Practice in Later Life: A Case Study in Urban Taiwan.” October 15-16, 2022. East Asian Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Taipei: National Cheng Chi University.
2. “Transnational LGBT Activism: Migrants’ Pride in Hong Kong.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Vancouver, Canada (2019). 
3. “Migrant Activism: A Critical Review with a Sexual Dimension.” International Workshop Global South Perspectives. Hong Kong (2018).
4. “Queering Multiculturalism and Querying Happiness.” East Asian Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Hong Kong (2017).
5. “Citizenship on the Move: Lesbian Rights and Indonesian Migrant Workers in Hong Kong.”The Sixth Asian Conference on Cultural Studies. Kobe, Japan (2016).
6. Panel Organizer and Presenter. “Remaking the Space of Home.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society International Conference. Surabaya, Indonesia (2015).
7. “From Friendship to Kinship: A Same-Sex Community among Indonesian Domestic Workers in Hong Kong.” Association for Asian Studies. Chicago (2015).
8. “Families We Want: Changing Meanings of Home in Transnational Migrant Circuits.”American Ethnological Society, Chicago (2013).
9. “Sexualities in Transnational Migrant Circuits: Indonesian Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco (2012).
10. “Lesbian Masculinities in Hong Kong.” International Female Masculinities Symposium, University of Amsterdam (2008).

Classes taught

• Gender and Sexuality across Cultures (性別、性與人類學)
• Classic Works of Sociology (社會學經典名著)
• Social and Cultural Analysis: Cross-cultural Comparison (社會文化分析: 跨文化比較)
• Anthropology and the Intimate: Studies in Emotion and Action (人類學與親密：情感和行為) 
• Gender Discourses (性別論述)