Maid to Queer: Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong

2021-04-21 - 2021-04-21

Maid to Queer: Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong
 
Date: 21 April 2021
Time: 2-4 PM
Venue: A114, Liberal Arts Building I, NCU
 
Speaker: Dr. Francisca Lai (Assistant Professor, Center for General Education at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
 
 
Maid to Queer (2020), the first book about Asian female migrant workers and their same-sex relationships, aims to create a dialogue between Asian labor migration and LGBT studies. The author will share her ethnographic study of same-sex relationships among Indonesian domestic workers in Hong Kong, including the political and cultural context of Hong Kong, the relationships between migrant workers and their employers, Muslim identity, and the processes of leaving home and returning home. The field research was started in 2010; in addition to participant observation, a total of 43 Indonesian workers, who have had a same-sex relationship, were interviewed.
 
Speaker Bio：Francisca Lai is currently an assistant professor in the Center for General Education at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. She received her PhD in cultural anthropology from Purdue University, USA. Her research interests include LGBT studies, gender and migration, familial intimacy, and inter-Asia studies.

Organizers
International Master’s Program in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies,
University System of Taiwan (IACS-UST)
Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU
Center for General Education, NTHU
International Institute for Cultural Studies, NYCU & UST
UST Cross-Campus Credit Program in Cultural Studies

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