Overview
- Moves beyond standard stories of victimized migrants and domestic workers from Southeast Asia
- Provides insights into the complexity of identity, ethnicity, and womanhood of Thai migrant women in Hong Kong
- Advances new understandings of gendered migration from an intersectional perspective
Part of the book series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship (MDC)
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Drawing on ethnographic research conducted with the Thai migrant community in Hong Kong between 2016 and 2020, this book provides original insights into the complexity and diversity of identity negotiation, ethnicity navigation, and womanhood reinvention of Thai migrant women in Hong Kong. Allowing research to move beyond standard stories of victimized migrants and domestic workers by focusing on the increasing number of Southeast Asians moving into the middle-class, this ethnographic study of the everyday lived experience of Thai migrant women in Hong Kong will advance a new understanding of transnational migration and mobility at the intersections of gender, ethnicity, class, generation, and religion. This book illustrates the influence of transnationalism and multiculturalism on migrant women's meaning-making and accentuates the importance of diversity within a migrant population — in particular, the importance of maintaining an intersectional perspective to understand the broader phenomenon of contemporary middle-class and professional migration within Southeast Asia.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Herbary Cheung is an incoming Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and a Research Associate at Institut de Recherche sur l'Asie du Sud-Est Contemporaine (IRASEC), France. He is the awardee of the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme and Ernst Mach Grant. His research engages with gender and migration, family, marriage and health, intersectionality, and feminist research methods by focusing on Hong Kong-Southeast Asia connections.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Engendering Migration Journey
Book Subtitle: Identity, Ethnicity and Gender of Thai Migrant Women in Hong Kong
Authors: Herbary Cheung
Series Title: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15975-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-15974-9Published: 02 February 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-15977-0Published: 02 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-15975-6Published: 01 February 2023
Series ISSN: 2662-2602
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2610
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 152
Topics: Migration, Ethnography, Gender Studies, Cultural Geography, Development Studies