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

Drawing on ethnographic research conducted with the Thai migrant community in Hong Kong between 2016 and 2020, this book provides original insights into the complexity and diversity of identity negotiation, ethnicity navigation, and womanhood reinvention of Thai migrant women in Hong Kong. Allowing research to move beyond standard stories of victimized migrants and domestic workers 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 will advance a new understanding of transnational migration and mobility at the intersections of gender, ethnicity, class, generation, and religion. This book illustrates the influence of transnationalism and multiculturalism on migrant women's meaning-making and accentuates the importance of diversity within a migrant population  in particular, the importance of maintaining an intersectional perspective to understand the broader phenomenon of contemporary middle-class and professional migration within Southeast Asia.

1. Introduction: Starting the Journey.- 2.Investigating Migrant Women in Hong Kong: Toward an Intersectional Analysis Approach.- 3. Establishing the Ethnographic Study of Thai Migrant Women in Hong Kong.- 4. Transnational Migration and Identity Negotiation: Under the Gaze of Buddhism.- 5. Navigating the Ethnic Boundary: From In-Between to Plural Ethnicities.- 6. Reinventing Transnational Womanhood: In the Journeys of Migrant Women.- 7. Conclusion: Moving Beyond.

“Engendering Migration Journey is a thoroughly researched monograph that makes a timely contribution, theoretically, methodologically, and empirically, to the scholarship on gender and migration. ... this is a very useful book that can be of interest to researchers and students interested in various fields of study, including gender and migration, Thai migration, identity and belonging on the move, and l3e