DATE: 27 NOVEMBER 2017
TIME: 1600-1730
VENUE: RRST 4.36
SPEAKER: Ray Jiang Linyan
RESPONDENT: Zhang Shimin
Abstract:
In recent decades, many working class Chinese marriage migrants have come to Hong Kong for family reunion. Their living difficulties have caught the attention of the local academy. However, these women show that they can tackle their own problems. This research focuses on the self-organized, mutual aid NGO, Tonggen ???, to reveal how the working class Chinese marriage migrants learn to articulate their demands through active political participation in the host society. They are poised to become an emergent political power that challenges the vision of local democratic politics.
Ray Jiang is an MPhil candidate of the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong.
