Maid to Order in Hong Kong - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Maid to Order in Hong Kong write by Nicole Constable. This book was released on 2007. Maid to Order in Hong Kong available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this update of her 1997 ethnography, the author traces changes that have taken place in the service sector of Hong Kong's workforce since its reunification with mainland China in that year. Argues that though the influx of foreign domestic workers has risen dramatically and they are somewhat more politically active, the abuse, lay-offs, and other challenges of these mostly Indonesian and Filipina women's daily lives in a globalized economy remain much the same, as they relate in their own words.
Maid to Order in Hong Kong
Maid to Order in Hong Kong - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Maid to Order in Hong Kong write by Nicole Constable. This book was released on 1997. Maid to Order in Hong Kong available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The forms of discipline range from physical abuse to intrusive regulations including restrictions on hair length and the prohibition of lipstick.
Maid to Order in Hong Kong
Maid to Order in Hong Kong - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Maid to Order in Hong Kong write by Nicole Constable. This book was released on 2017-12-15. Maid to Order in Hong Kong available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Middle-class Chinese women in the global city of Hong Kong have entered the workforce in unprecedented numbers over the past three decades, and the demand for foreign domestic workers has soared. A decade ago some foretold the decline in foreign workers and the influx of mainland workers. But today over 120,000 women from the Philippines, over 90,000 from Indonesia, and thousands more from other parts of South and Southeast Asia serve as maids on two-year contracts in Hong Kong, sending much needed remittances to their families abroad. Nicole Constable tells their story by updating Maid to Order in Hong Kong with a focus on the major changes that have taken place since Hong Kong's reunification with mainland China in 1997, the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, and the outbreak of SARS in 2002-2003. Interweaving her analysis with the women's individual stories, she shows how power is expressed in the day-to-day lives of Filipina domestic workers and more-recent Indonesian arrivals.
Maid to Queer
Maid to Queer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Maid to Queer write by Francisca Yuenki Lai. This book was released on 2021-11-03. Maid to Queer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Maid to Queer is the first book about Asian female migrant workers who develop same-sex relationships in a host city. Based on participant observation and in-depth interviews with Indonesian domestic workers in Hong Kong, the book explores the meanings of same-sex relationships to these migrant women. Instead of searching for reasons to explain why they engage in a same-sex relationship, this book provides an ethnographic perspective by addressing their Sunday activities and considering how migration policies and the practices of Hong Kong people unintentionally produce alternative sexuality and desires for them. The author contrasts the migrant experiences of same-sex relationships with the Western discourse that individuals carry a strong sense of sexual identification prior to migration; same-sex desires among Indonesian domestic workers are often not realized until they leave home. Addressing the changes from maid to queer, this book documents the intersections of domestic work, labor migration, race, and religion on the sexual subject formation, specifically how Indonesian women negotiate heteronormativity and remake a space for their love, sex, and intimacy. For those interested in lesbian studies, Asian labor migration, sexual citizenship, and queer migration, this ethnography fills an important gap in explaining how the feminization of international migration and the constraints imposed on live-in domestic workers unintentionally become productive possibilities of queerness and normativity. “Maid to Queer combines insights from migration studies with those of LGBT studies, contributing to both. It examines the sexual subjectivities and shifting sexualities of these domestic workers, in relation to both migrant labor policies and the anxieties and practices of their employers in Hong Kong. Lai’s book is very enticing to read.” —Saskia Wieringa, University of Amsterdam “This is the first book I know of exploring sexuality among domestic workers. Lai shows that sexuality is relative to both imagination and opportunity, and that it can change over time. Women may desire women, or they may not; context shapes this desire and how this desire plays out.” —Sharyn Davies, Monash University
Born Out of Place
Born Out of Place - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Born Out of Place write by Nicole Constable. This book was released on 2014-03-14. Born Out of Place available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hong Kong is a meeting place for migrant domestic workers, traders, refugees, asylum seekers, tourists, businessmen, and local residents. In Born Out of Place, Nicole Constable looks at the experiences of Indonesian and Filipina women in this Asian world city. Giving voice to the stories of these migrant mothers, their South Asian, African, Chinese, and Western expatriate partners, and their Hong Kong–born babies, Constable raises a serious question: Do we regard migrants as people, or just as temporary workers? This accessible ethnography provides insight into global problems of mobility, family, and citizenship and points to the consequences, creative responses, melodramas, and tragedies of labor and migration policies.
