Spatial Agency and Occupation : Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong - Evelyn Kwok

Spatial Agency and Occupation

Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong

By: Evelyn Kwok

Hardcover | 31 October 2024

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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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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!--Maggy Lee, The University of Hong Kong

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