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Discourse of Powerlessness and Repression

Hans J. Ladegaard
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abuse of domestic workers in Hong Kong
Abusive Employers
agency
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Bethune House
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Church Shelter
community of practice
diaspora
discourse
discourse analysis
discourses
discursive strategies
Domestic Helper
Domestic Migrant
Domestic Migrant Women
Domestic Migrant Workers
Employer's Abusive Behaviour
Employer’s Abusive Behaviour
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female empowerment
Feminism
Filipina Domestic Helpers
Filipina Domestic Workers
Filipina Helper
Foreign Domestic Helpers
gendered exploitation
General Laughter
Indonesian Helpers
intercultural communication
language and identity
Long Distance Mothering
maginalisation
marginalization
migrant labour studies
Migrant Women
Migrant Worker NGOs
migration and immigration
NGO Staff Member
othering
Painful Self-disclosures
peer support empowerment
power and oppression
qualitative narrative research
resistance
Sari's Comment
Sari’s Comment
Sharing Session
Social Dominance Orientation
Social Science Research
Trauma Narratives
Wobbly Voice
Women's rights

Product details

  • ISBN 9780367375942
  • Weight: 400g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Sep 2019
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

Drawing on a large corpus of narratives recorded at a church shelter for abused domestic helpers in Hong Kong, this monograph explores how the women discursively construct themselves in sharing sessions with other helpers. They see themselves as ‘helpers’ who have come to Hong Kong to help their families, to help the people in the city, and to serve God. A wide variety of competing identities are constructed in the narratives: submissive helper, sacrificial mother, daughter and wife, and powerless traumatised victim, but also resourceful indignant migrant women who, through sharing and peer support, become empowered to fight against abusive employers. This book provides a detailed discourse analysis of the women’s narratives, but it also explores larger issues such as global migration, exploitation, language and power, abuse and the psychology of evil, intergroup communication, and peer support and empowerment.

About Hans J. Ladegaard
Hans J. Ladegaard is Professor and Head of the Department of English, at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

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