Spatial Agency and Occupation

Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Evelyn Kwok, Hong Kong Baptist University) Kwok, Evelyn (Research Assistant Professor

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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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Utgivningsdatum2024-10-31
Mått156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt490 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Studies in Urban Political Economy
Antal sidor224
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474479165

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Evelyn Kwok is Research Assistant Professor at the Academy of Visual Arts at the School of Creative Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University. Her background is in spatial design research, and her work focuses on the intersection of gender, labor and space, in particular on marginal communities in urban spaces and their use of public space. Her teaching integrates service learning and community advocacy into design and socially engaged art in interdisciplinary contexts within and beyond Hong Kong.

AcknowledgementsA note on terms and intervieweesPreface: It Takes a VillageIntroduction: A Matter of Space and PeopleChapter 1: Policy and/vs People: Mobility and StagnationChapter 2: Narratives of Oppression: Servitude, Invisibility and SpacelessnessChapter 3: Agency and ResistanceChapter 4: Little Manila and beyondChapter 5: Commodification of Care: costs and sacrificesConclusion: A Matter of the Disenfranchised and Socio-spatial Inequality Bibliography

Spatial Agency and Occupation consolidates the trajectory of Evelyn Kwok’s highly original theorising and meticulous research on the intersections of space, economics, gender and labour for over a decade. A powerful and moving analysis of the discipline and marginalisation of female migrant workers with unique insights into their resilience and everyday resistance. Interdisciplinary scholarship at its best!