Migrant Workers and the Many States of Protest in Hong Kong

Constable, Nicole

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“…They tend to argue that the impact of labour NGOs' activities in Singapore has been "comparatively muted" in contrast to similar movements in Hong Kong where female migrant domestic workers have been active at the grassroots level in self-organising and staging demonstrations (Ford and Piper 2007, 75;Constable 2009;Hsia 2009). Similarly, the gains that Singaporean NGOs have made in terms of securing migrant rights are considered to be modest or limited.…”

Section: Political Opportunities and Civil Society Space In Singaporementioning

confidence: 99%

Production Politics and Migrant Labour Advocacy in Singapore

Bal

2014

Journal of Contemporary Asia

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Section: Political Opportunities and Civil Society Space In Singaporementioning

confidence: 99%

Production Politics and Migrant Labour Advocacy in Singapore

Bal

2014

Journal of Contemporary Asia

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“…These measures or "solutions" to the exploitative and unstable migrant work conditions have been opposed by more critical migrant labor activists and scholars, who argued that forbidding women from migrating would not actually stop their migration but only contribute to increasing the vulnerability of women to exploitation in increasing numbers of risky and undocumented forms of migration [52] (p. 259). These are as opposed to changes proposed by activists that would favor and enhance migrants' bargaining power, such as freedom to speak out against exploitation, or choice in terms of residence and employment opportunities in their countries of origin [45,49].…”

Section: Migration As Sustainable Development? Labor Migration and Gementioning

confidence: 99%

“…While few, apart from Dannecker [47], Rachel Silvey [30], and Nicola Piper [41], have explicitly theorized or critically focused on development in their discussions, many scholars of gendered migration have argued that migration is a product of and reproduces structural inequalities within and between communities and nations, across the lines of gender, race, class, nationality, politics, and also religion [23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]49,50]. While there are critical voices against states who promote migration as a primary strategy of economic development, such as those articulating migrants as "agents" of development, these are often not as popular, publicized, or represented in mainstream media coverage of migration, development, and everyday migrant and labor activism in Indonesia.…”

Section: Theoretical Framework: Labor Migration Gender and Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gendered Morality and Development Narratives: The Case of Female Labor Migration from Indonesia

Chan

2014

Sustainability

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This article discusses two dominant and contradictory representations of Indonesian female migrant workers: as national "heroes" who contribute to Indonesia's economic development, or as exploited "victims" of labor abuse. By analyzing public statements by Indonesian state actors, news reports, and migrant activists' websites, I argue that representations of migrants as victims do not undermine representations of migrants as heroes of development. Instead, in Indonesian public discourses about migrant women, various institutions and actors often evoke similar gendered moral assumptions of what makes a "good" or "bad" Indonesian woman and worker. These assumptions serve narratives that imply which migrant workers are heroes who deserve media attention; which migrants are unfairly abused and deserve state protection; and which migrants partly deserve their tragic fates. I term these assumptions gendered moral hierarchies, which distinguish between "tolerable" and "illegitimate" violence. Gendered moral hierarchies in representations of migrants downplay the responsibility of states and institutions for migrant safety, labor protection, and aspects of social welfare, by emphasizing individual moral responsibility and blame. More attention to gendered moral assumptions behind migrants' narratives of development and victimhood can illuminate how they experience the risks and promises of transnational labor migration in gendered and culturally specific ways.

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“…Many scholars have therefore explored the kinds of practices through which religious minority or newcomer communities articulate claims to be recognised as worthy participants in urban society (Bandak 2014;Constable 1997Constable , 2009Stringer 2013). Conversely, others have examined the strategies of 'place-keeping' (Becci, Burchardt, and Giorda 2017) through which religious majorities are able to secure their hegemonic status, and how such practices may be reinforced in response to the challenges presented by minorities.…”

Section: Theories and Ethnographies Of Urban Religion: Expanding The mentioning

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The im-materiality of urban religion: towards an ethnography of urban religious aspirations

Burchardt

Westendorp

2018

Culture and Religion

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In recent years, scholars from a wide variety of disciplines have engaged in the study of urban religion. Taken together, these studies form a paradigm that intertwines (1) the politics of belonging, (2) regimes of space and territoriality, (3) materiality and sensorial power and (4) visibility. We argue that while scholars have conceptualised these aspects in very nuanced ways, there is a need to address in a more rigorous way immaterial dimensions of urban religion. We encapsulate these immaterial dimensions in the notion of 'urban religious aspirations' , meaning the multiple ideational sources that underpin people's religious investments in urban life. We illustrate the relevance of studying aspirations with an ethnographic example of two Hong Kong Christian women and their involvement in the Umbrella Movement. Exploring their narratives demonstrates the need to take immaterial aspects of religious life into account when researching urban religion, especially in contexts where the distinction between the religious and the secular is less clearly defined.

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Migrant Workers and the Many States of Protest in Hong Kong

Cited by 103 publications

References 18 publications

Production Politics and Migrant Labour Advocacy in Singapore

Production Politics and Migrant Labour Advocacy in Singapore

Gendered Morality and Development Narratives: The Case of Female Labor Migration from Indonesia

The im-materiality of urban religion: towards an ethnography of urban religious aspirations

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