About the project

This project is a 2-year project that began at the Department of Sociology to evaluate to better understand what is driving emigration from Hong Kong and also what ties Hong Kong residents to Hong Kong society. We aim to generate policy-oriented analysis that can help to the management of emigration flows and the impact that they have had on different social and economic sectors of Hong Kong society.

The Principal Investigator of the Project, Jacob Thomas, is an American Assistant Professor at Corvinus University of Budapest in Europe and a Research Fellow at Princeton University’s Center for Migration and Development .

His invitation to the potential participants of the project is below:

Hello! I am Dr. Jacob Thomas, a former American Research Assistant Professor at Corvinus University of Budapes't’s Department of Sociology , a Research Fellow at the Princeton University’s Center for Migration and Development . 

I am conducting a research project that aims to assess the differences between former Hong Kong residents who have emigrated from Hong Kong and Hong Kong residents who have considered emigrating but have not yet left Hong Kong. This project already has more than 4,000 survey participants and over 300 interviewees both in Hong Kong and outside of Hong Kong. You can find more details on the project’s academic website(hkemigrationproject.space) and recruitment website (hk-ep.net). The Research Ethics Committee at the Corvinus University of Budapest has approved of this study (File number KRH/232/2024).

We sincerely invite you to participate in an anonymous survey if you are a

1)  Hong Kong resident who have considered emigrating but are still in Hong Kong, or

2)  Hong Konger who has emigrated from Hong Kong 

A link to the survey:  https://corvinus.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_82iXd1VOWVwOAoS or

https://bit.ly/4dRlfhc

Additionally, if you are willing to share your personal story of how you came to consider emigrating from Hong Kong, we would like to conduct an in-depth interview with you. The interview will last approximately 1.5 hours and will be conducted via any secure online platform (e.g. Google Meets/ WhatsApp / Signal/ Telegram/ Zoom) in Cantonese / English / Mandarin. The interview process is strictly anonymous and confidential. If you are interested, please provide your contact information at the end of the survey such as email address / WhatsApp /Signal /Line /Telegram number at the end of the questionnaire, and we will contact you within 3 months. (Clickhere for measures we take to protect participant confidentiality)

Each respondent receives compensation of $40 HKD, while those who complete an in-depth interview will receive compensation of $80 HKD per hour.

If you have questions about this study, please contact me via email jrt@uni-corvinus.hu or j.thomas@ucla.edu or WhatsApp/Signal/Line/Telegram (+852 95424682). 

您好，我是一位歐洲布達佩斯科維努斯大學社會學助理教授及普林斯頓大學移民與發展中心研究員研究Jacob Richard Thomas (唐龍)博士。

我正進行一項有關近年香港人遷移的學術研究項目。研究旨在探討己經移居外地的香港人 及 曾考慮移居但尚未離港的香港居民兩者之間的差異。目前已有超過 4,000 名香港人參與問卷調查，

及逾 400 名香港人接受口述歷史= 深入訪問。 詳見本項目之 學術網站 (hkemigrationproject.space) 及 招募網站 (hk-ep.net)。此項研究已獲和布達佩斯考維努斯大學研究倫理委員會（文件編號

KRH/232/2024）。

我們誠邀

1) 曾考慮移居但仍身處香港的香港居民，或

2) 已經移居離港的香港人

參與一個匿名問卷調查：https://corvinus.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_82iXd1VOWVwOAoS or

https://bit.ly/4dRlfhc

此外，假如閣下願意進一步分享個人考慮移居的故事，我們非常希望能透過任何安全的網上平台 (例如 GoogleMeets/WhatsApp/Telegram 等) ，以廣東話/英文/國語進行一個大約 1.5 小時之深入訪問，訪問過程絕對保密，並且可以使用化名。若有意接受深入訪問，請於問卷最後提供聯絡方法， 如電郵地址 Google Meets/ WhatsApp / Signal 號碼，我們將於三個月內安排專人與您聯絡。按此了解研究團隊之匿名及保密措施。

每位完成問卷調查的參加者將獲得 7 加幣 (40 港元) 的補償，而完成深入訪問的受訪者將獲得每 小時 14 加幣 (約 80 港元) 訪問津貼。

如對是次研究有任何疑問，jrt@uni-corvinus.hu or j.thomas@ucla.edu 或

WhatsApp/Telegram/Line/Signal +852 95424682與我聯絡。