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Maria Cheung
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Professor Emerita
Dr. Maria Cheung is Professor Emerita of Social Work at the University of Manitoba and Advisor to the Conflict and Resilience Research Institute of Canada. With over thirty years of academic experience, she has received research funding from SSHRC, the former Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), and the University of Manitoba. Her work has advanced human rights research in Canada, Hong Kong, and China. She has published widely across Social Work, Genocide Studies, Religion and Spirituality, and Gender Studies.
Publications/Papers
Cheung, M., & Ahmed, K. (2024, May 15). “New commission sheds light on how diaspora communities are impacted by foreign interference.” The Conversation Canada.
Cheung, M. (2022). “Genocide prevention: A forgotten obligation in social work?” in Shaikh, S.S., LeFrançois, B.A., & Macias, T. (Eds.). Social Work Theory and Praxis (pp. 96-111). Fernwood Publishing.
Cheung, M. (2019, June 12). “Canada must end complicity in China’s brutal organ trafficking regime” The Conversation Canada.
Cheung, M., Trey, T., Matas, D., & An, R. (2018) “Cold Genocide: Falun Gong in China,” Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal 12 (1), 38-62.
Cheung, M. (2016). The intersection between mindfulness and human rights: The case of Falun Gong and its implications for social work. Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Social Work: Social Thought, 35(1-2), 57-75
Cheung, M., & Heinonen, T. (2015). A Positive Peace Initiative with Rural Women in China. M.P. Flaherty, T., Matyok, J. Senehi, S. Byrne, & H. Tuso, H. (Eds). Gender and Peacebuilding: All Hands Required. Lexington Books
Cheung, M. (2012). “Invisible minorities” of the Falun Gong community: Challenge to social inclusion and integration in Canada. In M. Baffoe with M. Cheung, L. Asimeng-Boahene, & B. Ogbuagu, Strangers in New Homelands: The social deconstruction and reconstruction of “home” among immigrants in the diaspora. UK: Cambridge Publishing Press.
Matas, D. & Cheung, M. (2012). Concepts and Precepts: Canadian Tribunals, Human Rights and Falun Gong. Canadian Journal of Human Rights, 1(1), 62-91.
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