Dr. Maria Cheung
Professor of Social Work, University of Manitoba
Human and gender rights issues in China, Global human rights, Canadian view on human rights issues in China, Human rights and spiritual minorities in Canadian immigrant communities, Falun Gong, Marginalization of Falun Gong, Organ harvesting
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Biography
Dr. Maria Cheung is a Professor of Social Work at the University of Manitoba. Her research is on human rights in China and the intersection with international development in social work. She collaborates with doctors and lawyers in a research on the forced organ harvesting in China. She also collaborates with University of British Columbia (Okanagan) and University of Calgary on a social capital research project with Chinese immigrants in Vancouver, Calgary and Winnipeg, funded by Social Sciences and Humanity Research Council (SSHRC). Cheung and Professor Terry Russell from Asian Studies Centre of U of M have completed a study on the discrimination and marginalization of a spiritual minority group, the Falun Gong practitioners in major diaspora Chinese communities in Canada. She had co-directed a CIDA Tier One six-year China Project on Building Human Capacity – Social Work with Rural Women in China on gender equality and protection of human rights from 2004-2010. She is also Research Affiliate, and Advisory Board member of the Centre for Human Rights Research.
She is the author of numerous publications, including: 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. Available at: http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/gsp/vol12/iss1/6
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 in M.P. Flaherty, T., Matyok, J. Senehi, S. Byrne, & H. Tuso, H. (Eds). Gender and Peacebuilding: All Hands Required. Lexington Books.