Dr. Avital Binah-Pollak is currently a faculty member at the Humanities and Arts department at the Technion in Haifa. She is a socio-cultural anthropologist with an emphasis on gender, migration, boundaries, and education in contemporary China and Hong Kong.

• Introduction, Chapter One: The Hong Kong China Border: A Space of Confinement and Movement, Chapter Two: Motivations for Crossing Borders, Chapter Three: Same as Before, Living as a House Wife, Chapter Four: Hong Kong's Education: A Bridge to the 'First World', Chapter Five: New voices in Hong Kong: Local identity formation, Concluding Thoughts: Home is not where the heart is but where it wants to be, Bibliography, Index