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Co-sponsors: UC Davis East Asian Studies, UCLA Asian Pacific Center, UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, UCI Center for Asian Studies, UCSD International Institute, UCSD 21st Century China Center, Pomona College Asian Studies
This event is organized and hosted by Global Hong Kong Studies at University of California.
About the Event
Like in many global cities, ethnic minorities and migrant workers perform essential labor of food delivery, housekeeping, childcare and elderly care in Hong Kong. While these marginalized groups are Mostly ignored by scholars of Hong Kong Studies, the research of our two speakers shed important light on the lives of these ethnic and religious minorities. Their presentations will cover their labor conditions, migration trajectories, citizenship politics, relations with the local Chinese society, as well as with governments in Hong Kong and their home countries.
"Perceived aggression and agencies among South Asian gig workers in Hong Kong" Dr. Lisa Y.M. Leung
"Negotiating agency and challenging institutional power through everyday multiculturalism among migrant domestic workers" Dr. Raees Baig
About the Speakers
Dr. Lisa Y.M. Leung
Dr. Lisa Y.M. Leung is Associate Professor of Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University Hong Kong. She has researched and published extensively in the area of transnational media circulation. Her recent research focuses on minority, migration and race. She is co-author of the book Understanding South Asian Minorities in Hong Kong (HKU Press, 2014). Her second book, Ethnic Minorities, Media and Participation: Creative Belonging in Hong Kong, examines the diverse participation of migrant / minority youths to struggle for recognition, while desiring to belong (Routledge, 2021). Her latest research explores the added precarities facing racial minority workers in the age of digitized capitalism.
Dr. Raees Baig
Raees is a Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Social Work of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She specialises in the construction of gender, racial and religious identities of ethnic and religious minorities under multiple forms of oppressions. Through exploring the power dynamics between transnational communities and the states, her studies focus on everyday multiculturalism and everyday resistance in constructing gender and racial identities under different forms of state governance in Asia. Prior to joining academia, she worked for various local and international organisations, including The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations and Amnesty International. She was also the chairperson of Amnesty International Hong Kong and served as the board member of various local women’s rights groups.