Maid to queer : Asian labor migration and female same-sex desires / Francisca Yuenki Lai.

By:

Lai, Francisca Yuenki [author.]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9789888268115
9888268112

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Maid to queer.DDC classification:

331.62598 23

LOC classification:

HQ75.6.I5

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Contents:

Discourses of home, gender and sexuality -- Gender and sexuality in the migrant community -- Negotiating social positions : religion, class and race -- Imaginings of home.

Summary: Maid to Queer is the first book about Asian female migrant workers who develop same-sex relationships in a host city. Based on participant observation and in-depth interviews with Indonesian domestic workers in Hong Kong, the book explores the meanings of same-sex relationships to these migrant women. Instead of searching for reasons to explain why they engage in a same-sex relationship, this book provides an ethnographic perspective by addressing their Sunday activities and considering how migration policies and the practices of Hong Kong people unintentionally produce alternative sexuality.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Discourses of home, gender and sexuality -- Gender and sexuality in the migrant community -- Negotiating social positions : religion, class and race -- Imaginings of home.

Maid to Queer is the first book about Asian female migrant workers who develop same-sex relationships in a host city. Based on participant observation and in-depth interviews with Indonesian domestic workers in Hong Kong, the book explores the meanings of same-sex relationships to these migrant women. Instead of searching for reasons to explain why they engage in a same-sex relationship, this book provides an ethnographic perspective by addressing their Sunday activities and considering how migration policies and the practices of Hong Kong people unintentionally produce alternative sexuality.

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