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Investigating Migrant Women in Hong Kong: Toward an Intersectional Analysis Approach

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Engendering Migration Journey

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This chapter reviews the literature on women’s migration in the Asia-Pacific region, explores the situation of Southeast Asian migrants in Hong Kong, provides the background to understand Thai migrant women’s lives in Hong Kong, explicates the rationale for the focus on migrant women, and highlights the gender perspective in migration studies. This chapter then reviews the theories and concepts relating to the two concepts that guide this research: transnational migration and identity. Theory related to transnational migration is first explored to provide the background context to understand the identity of transnational migration, followed by the discussion of the other concept, identity—in particular, identity negotiation. Within each of these two concepts, a context-specific overview of how they have impacted the lives and identity negotiation of Thai migrant women in Hong Kong is explored, and an intersectional analysis approach is called to uncover multiple social structures and processes that intertwine to produce specific social positions and identities of Thai migrant women in Hong Kong.

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Cheung, H. (2022). Investigating Migrant Women in Hong Kong: Toward an Intersectional Analysis Approach. In: Engendering Migration Journey. Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15975-6_2

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