Wednesday:
Foreign Domestic Workers and Precarity in Hong Kong
Friday: FDW Women and their Partners.
Discussion:
- What are the conditions under which Constable did fieldwork?
- How would Constable's fieldwork technique affect whom she met and how she understood her material? (Think, for example, how her study might have been different if she had done a large-scale questionnaire).
- What are the role constraints that structure people's attitudes toward Filipino and Indonesia FDWs? Is it substantially different for Roman Catholics as opposed to Muslims?
- Do you think there is a difference in the amount of agency that Filipinas and Indonesian women have?
- How would you contrast the factors that structure the position of South Asian or Afrian men in Hong Kong with those that structure FDW women?
Reading: (summary)
- Constable, Born Out of Place, chaps 1-4
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