Maid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Migrant Workers

Nicole Constable centers Filipina migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong, showing how recruitment, employment, live-in rules, resistance, and negotiation shape care labor in an Asian global city.

Maid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Migrant Workers

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Maid to Order in Hong Kong brings global care chains into the household spaces and recruitment systems of Hong Kong. Constable follows Filipina domestic workers as they navigate contracts, live-in arrangements, employer control, intimacy, and migrant community networks.

For FemRes, the book keeps migration and care from becoming a Europe-and-North-America-only story. It shows how class, racialization, colonial history, and labor regulation operate inside Asian global cities.

Publication Info

Author: Nicole Constable
Published: January 1, 2007
ISBN: 9780801473234
Language: English

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