Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/321939 
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Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
Edinburgh Studies in Urban Political Economy
Publisher: 
Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
Political Science
Civil Rights
Political Science
Political Economy
Political Science
Labor & Industrial Relations
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ISBN: 
978-1-4744-7918-9
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Document Type: 
Book

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