Title:
Associate Professor

Qualifications:
PhD (Oxford)
MPhil (HKU)
BSocSc (HKU)

Email:
ssakoo@polyu.edu.hk

Phone:
2766 4945

Office:
HJ409

Specialism:
Education inequality;
Class and stratification;
Migrant population in China

My URLs:  
ORCID

Teaching:

Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health
Sociology of Health

Being a Professional in the New World: The Spirit and Promise of Professionalism
Gender and Social Changes in Chinese Societies

Selected Research Projects:

• 2021-2022 'Non-traditional Students' Choices of Professional Training in the Expanded Higher Education Sector in Hong Kong', Internal competitive grant. (PI)

• 2018-2021 'Gendering the New Generation of Chinese Workers in Vocational Schools', General Research Fund, RGC, Hong Kong Government. (PI)

• 2016-2019 'Learning to Labor: Social Media and Migrant Labor Protection in Mainland China'. Collaborative Research Fund Scheme, RGC, Hong Kong Government. (Co-PI)

• 2013-2016 'Vocational Education and Social Mobility of Migrant Youth in China', General Research Fund, RGC, Hong Kong Government. (PI)

Selected Publications:

Refereed Journal papers: 

• Hope and Uncertainty at the Periphery in Global Times: Youth Employment in Kinmen, Taiwan. Yang, Chin-Yi and Anita Koo (2022). Journal of Youth Studies.

• Temporary Labor Migration and Skill Transfer in Japan: Migration Experiences and Outcomes of Technical Intern Trainees from Vietnam and China. Siu, Kaxton and Anita Koo (2021). In Journal of Social Issues.

• Negotiating Individualisation in Neoliberal China: Youth transitions among the new generation of rural migrants. Koo, Anita (2021). In Children’s Geographies 19(6): 754-765.

• Gender Ideologies of Youth in Post-socialist China: their gender-role attitudes, antecedents, and socio-psychological impacts. Koo, Anita, Bryant Hui and Ngai Pun (2020). In Chinese Sociological Review 52(2): 487-514.

• Having Less but Giving More: Work experience and prosocial behavior of Chinese working-class youth. Hui, Bryant, Ngai Pun, Jack Qiu and Anita Koo (2020). In Youth & Society 52(8): 1582-1601.

• Attempting to Transgress Neoliberal Value: Constructing a Micro-Foundation of Social Values of Working-Class Youth in Vocational Schools in China. Lu, Benny, Anita Koo and Ngai Pun (2019). In The Sociological Review 67(5): 1050-1065.

• Double Contradiction of Schooling: Class reproduction and working-class agency at vocational schools in China. Pun, Ngai and Anita Koo (2019). In British Journal of Sociology of Education 40(1): 50-64.

• Expansion of Vocational Education in Neoliberal China: Hope and despair among rural youth. Koo, Anita (2016). In Journal of Education Policy 31(1): 46-59.

• Is Hong Kong no longer a land of opportunities after the 1997 handover?: A comparison of patterns of social mobility between 1989 and 2007. Wong, Yi-Lee and Anita Koo (2016). In Asian Journal of Social Science 44(4/5): 516-545.

• A "World-Class" (Labor) Camp/us: Foxconn and China's new generation of labor migrants. Pun, Ngai and Anita Koo (2015). In positions 23(3): 411-435.

• The Doubly Disadvantaged: How return migrant children fail to access and deploy capitals for academic success in rural schools. Koo, Anita, Holly Ming and Bill Tsang (2014). In Sociology, 48(4): 795-811.

• Is there any chance to get ahead? Education aspiration and expectations of migrant families in China. Koo, Anita (2012). In British Journal of Sociology of Education, 33(4): 547-564.

• Parenting Style and Youth Outcome in the UK. Chan, Tak-Wing and Anita Koo (2011). In European Sociological Review, 27(3): 364-384.

• Professionalization of the Shipping Industry via Postgraduate Ng, Adolf, Anita Koo and Athanasios Pallis (2011). In Ocean and Coastal Management, 54(5): 364-373.

• Family in Flux: Benchmarking Family Changes in Hong Kong Society. Koo, Anita and Thomas Wong (2009). In Social Transformations in Chinese Societies, 4: 47-56.

• The Motivations and Added-Values of Embarking on Postgraduate Professional Education: Evidences from the maritime industry. Ng, Adolf, Anita Koo and Jarrod Ho (2009). In Transport Policy, 16(5): 251-258.

Edited books:

• Social Economy in China and the World, edited by Pun, Ngai, Ben Ku, Hairong Yan and Anita Koo (2015), London: Routledge.

• 《社會經濟在中國：超越資本主義的理論與實踐》，潘毅、嚴海蓉、古學斌、顧靜華 編（北京：社會科學文獻） (Social Economy in China: Beyond the Imagination of Capitalism, edited by Pun, Ngai, Hairong Yan, Ben Ku and Anita Koo (2014), Beijing: Chinese Social Sciences Academic Literature Press)

• 《不一樣的香港社會經濟》，潘毅、陳鳳儀、顧靜華、盧燕儀編（香港：香港商務印書館）(Alternative and Social Economy in Hong Kong, edited by Pun, Ngai, Pauline Chan, Anita Koo and Y.Y. Lo (2013), Hong Kong: Commercial Press)