Yvonne Foley
After spending a number of years working in clerical and administrative jobs, Yvonne Foley re-trained as a youth worker in her thirties. Yvonne ran a youth club for about five years then moved with her husband to Hong Kong where she taught English at the Hong Kong Society for the Blind as a volunteer. Subsequently she acquired a Certificate in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language and continued to teach on a voluntary basis when she and her husband moved to Australia. In the year 2000, Yvonne and her husband moved back to the UK and she began her research into the forced repatriation of Chinese seamen from the UK after WWII. Her interest in this arises from the fact that she is Eurasian and her father was one of the men made to leave the UK. Yvonne’s initial investigations indicate that there is a parallel story in Australia. She is currently working on researching her findings. For further information please visit the 'Liverpool and its Chinese Seamen' website.
Asian Australian Studies Research Network
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