abstract: 'After the Asian Financial Crisis, the government of Hong Kong embraced

  the model of work-integration social enterprise (WISE) to sustain its

  facilitative and productivist welfare regime. Using the WISE of Pro-Love

  for marginalized women as a case study, the article examines the meaning

  of employment and social disadvantage in the organization. The

  ethnographic data reveal that while the WISE encourages women to

  participate in the paid labor market, it constructs employment in the

  social enterprise as part-time jobs for supplementary family income,

  restricts the extension of social networks for the female workers, and

  reinforces the cultural stereotypes of marginalized women. The study

  reflects on the mechanisms of the project of WISE in the welfare

  contexts of Hong Kong, and argues that programs targeted at labor

  participation cannot be automatically translated into reduction of

  exclusion in other domains. Long-term planning, policy coordination, and

  social advocacy are necessary to achieve social integration.'
affiliation: 'Dai, HJ (Corresponding Author), Chinese Univ Hong Kong, Dept Social
  Work, United Coll, Room 417A,TC Cheng Bldg, Shatin, Hong Kong, Peoples R China.

  Dai, Haijing, Chinese Univ Hong Kong, Dept Social Work, United Coll, Room 417A,TC
  Cheng Bldg, Shatin, Hong Kong, Peoples R China.

  Lau, Yan; Lee, Ka Ho, Chinese Univ Hong Kong, Dept Social Work, United Coll, Room
  401,TC Cheng Bldg, Shatin, Hong Kong, Peoples R China.'
author: Dai, Haijing and Lau, Yan and Lee, Ka Ho
author-email: 'hjdai@swk.cuhk.edu.hk

  kittylauyan@gmail.com

  khlee@swk.cuhk.edu.hk'
author_list:
- family: Dai
  given: Haijing
- family: Lau
  given: Yan
- family: Lee
  given: Ka Ho
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1007/s11266-017-9832-6
eissn: 1573-7888
files: []
issn: 0957-8765
journal: VOLUNTAS
keywords: 'Work-integration social enterprise; Reemployment; Productivist welfare

  regime; Women; Hong Kong'
language: English
month: DEC
number: '6'
number-of-cited-references: '32'
orcid-numbers: Dai, Haijing/0000-0003-4562-3706
pages: 2614-2632
papis_id: 5dcbb7ae707606c8c51594c134d90758
ref: Dai2017paradoxintegration
researcherid-numbers: 'Peter, Serin/ITR-8938-2023

  '
times-cited: '5'
title: 'The Paradox of Integration: Work-Integration Social Enterprises (WISE) and
  Productivist Welfare Regime in Hong Kong'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000416864500014
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '27'
volume: '28'
web-of-science-categories: Social Issues
year: '2017'