Engendering Migration Journey: Identity, Ethnicity and Gender of Thai Migrant Women in Hong Kong

This book explores the identity negotiation, ethnicity navigation, and womanhood reinvention of Thai migrant women in Hong Kong, challenging standard narratives of victimized migrants and domestic workers. It highlights the influence of transnationalism and multiculturalism on migrant women's meaning-making and emphasizes the importance of diversity within a migrant population.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 152 pages
Publication date: 02 February 2024
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

Drawing on ethnographic research conducted with the Thai migrant community in Hong Kong between 2016 and 2020, this book offers original insights into the complexity and diversity of identity negotiation, ethnicity navigation, and womanhood reinvention among Thai migrant women in Hong Kong. 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 challenges traditional narratives of victimized migrants and domestic workers. It advances a new understanding of transnational migration and mobility at the intersections of gender, ethnicity, class, generation, and religion. This book highlights the influence of transnationalism and multiculturalism on migrant women's meaning-making and underscores the importance of diversity within a migrant population, particularly the need to maintain an intersectional perspective to comprehend the broader phenomenon of contemporary middle-class and professional migration within Southeast Asia.

Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031159770
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022