Sui-Ting Kong is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Durham University (UK). Her research involves working with social work practitioners and service users, women who have experienced violence and Hongkonger diaspora to advance social work practice, feminist participatory methods, conceptualisation of personal lives at politically turbulent times. She has been awarded the prestigious British Academy/Wolfson Fellowship in 2021 to work on transnational social work and Hongkonger diaspora in the UK for three years. The project looks at the contested identities of Hongkongers and how these identities shape their community and home building in the UK. Alongside this project, she also collaborated with the British Association of Social Workers to develop a national curriculum and workplace support for Hongkonger diaspora social workers who moved to the UK after 2019.

Yao-Tai Li is a Senior Lecturer of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at University of New South Wales, Australia. His research interests include migration, race and ethnicity, contentious politics, and social media. He is the author of Protest Walls: Co-authoring Contentious Repertoires (published by Cambridge University Press, 2025). His work has been published in several scholarly journals including British Journal of Sociology, International Affairs, The China Quarterly, Urban Studies, New Media and Society, International Migration Review, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Global Networks, Social Movement Studies, Information, Communication & Society, Geopolitics, among others.

Lake Lui is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at National Taiwan University. She is also affiliated with the Taiwan Social Resilience Center at National Taiwan University and the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (CSDE) at the University of Washington. Her research explores how global forces such as economic restructuring, migration, and sociocultural changes interact with national policies to shape gender relations and family dynamics in Asia. Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, she examines marriage formation processes, household dynamics, and fertility decisions. Her recent work investigates the relationships among im/mobilities, political contestations, political repression, and the role of the family in weathering changes. Her major publications have appeared in Social Forces; Sociology; International Migration Review; The Sociological Review; Social Science Research; and Journal of Family Issues. She is also the author of Re-negotiating Gender: Household Division of Labor when She Earns More than He Does (Springer).

Miu Chung Yan is Professor at the School of Social Work at University of British Columbia (Vancouver). He has led and been involved in numerous research projects on issues related to immigrants and refugees in Canada. Recently he completed two waves of online surveys on HK residents who arrived or returned to Canada after 2015. He also led a qualitative study to examine the settlement and integration pattern of HK residents in Canada, the UK, and Taiwan.