Spatial Agency and Occupation : Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong
Spatial Agency and Occupation : Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong
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Author(s): Kwok, Evelyn
ISBN No.: 9781474479165
Pages: 224
Year: 202410
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 182.00
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

Explores the resistance of a marginalised female migrant workforce through the intersection of space, economics and labour Explores the resistance of a marginalised female migrant workforce through the intersection of space, economics and labour Uses an interdisciplinary approach of ethnographic fieldwork, spatial analysis and literature Provides a new urban political economic analysis of the socio-spatial consequences of commodifying migrant labour in Hong Kong and beyond Introduces the notion of socio-spatial inequality as a framework of understanding the marginalisation of migrant labour minorities beyond their economic limitations, and in turn how their economic and spatial unfreedom shapes their disenfranchisement There are around 340,000 Foreign Domestic Workers in Hong Kong, but the ways in which they experience migration is largely hidden in the homes of their employers. This book helps us to understand the complexities of migrant experiences by analysing the socio-spatial consequences that emerge from global migrant labour, and examining the capacity of the disenfranchised to create new spatialities by using public space to resist their disempowerment. This approach gives voice to a phenomenon silenced by the hegemony of mainstream urban economics and, in turn, reveals practices that cut across global labour. By shedding light on the importance of space in moulding these practices and how these practices, in turn, shape space, Kwok demonstrates the power and limits of spatial agency in pushing back against the deleterious consequences of considering labour as another commodity, and reveals what lies behind the curtain of Hong Kong's 'successful' spatial capitalism.


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