TY  - GEN
T1  - Spatial Agency and Occupation
A1  - Kwok, Evelyn
LA  - eng
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
YR  - 2025
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/doab-20.500.12854-157888
AB  - 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.<i> </i>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.
KW  - Political Science
KW  - Civil Rights
KW  - Political Economy
KW  - Labor & Industrial Relations
KW  - bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPV Political control & freedoms::JPVH Human rights
KW  - bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCP Political economy
KW  - bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KN Industry & industrial studies::KNX Industrial relations, health & safety::KNXB Industrial relations::KNXB3 Industrial arbitration & negotiation
ER  -