Abstract:
This week the topic of the UG course HUMA3060 Language & Migration is Language and Labour Migration. On Friday 1 April we will welcome Christine Vicera to the course, to discuss her research with migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong, and are opening up the session to all students and faculty in HUMA.
Biography:
Christine is a writer, researcher, and filmmaker based at Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research is interdisciplinary, and she has a broad interest in the relationship between memory, diaspora, and post-/anti-/decoloniality in Hong Kong and the Philippines. In her recent research, through stories and creative works produced by migrant domestic workers (e.g. video, photography, writing, costume-making and craft-making) she investigates the knowledges that emerge about labour migration, and the work that stories and art do in local and global discourses.
Christine is founder and co-director of be/longing, a community arts-for-education lab, and co-founder of gongsik, a Hong Kong–based collective committed to sustaining inclusive conversations rooted in a critical politics of anti-racism, anti-imperialism, and a rejection of interconnected systems of race, gender, and class-based oppression(s) in Hong Kong and beyond. You can find out more about Christine’s work here:
- Personal website – https://christinevicera.wordpress.com/
- gongsik Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/gongsik852
- be/longing website – https://belonginghk.wordpress.com/