Navigating Power and Precarity: Violence and Resilience among Indonesian Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong
| Dates: | 13 October 2025 |
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| Times: | 12:00 - 14:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | Global Development Institute |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Current University students |
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GDI Migration, Refugees and Asylum Research Group Seminar
Speaker: Yiqui (Mia) Huang, University of Hong Kong
In this seminar, Mia will examine the experiences of Indonesian migrant domestic workers (MDWs) in Hong Kong, who navigate complex structural vulnerabilities as one of the region’s largest migrant groups. Adopting a feminist, intersectional lens, the research focuses on the interconnections between violence, holistic well-being, and resilience. Mia will present findings from semi-structured interviews and photovoice, analyzed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). The discussion will explore how MDWs experience multi-layered violence, the impact on their well-being, and the strategies of agency and resistance they employ. The seminar will also introduce a critical reconceptualization of resilience as relational and structurally-situated, contributing new, Global South informed perspectives to migration and gender scholarship.
Yiqiu (Mia) Huang is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Social Work and Social Administration at the University of Hong Kong. Mia’s doctoral research examines the lived experiences, holistic well-being, and resilience of Indonesian migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong, focusing on how they navigate multi-layered, intersecting forms of violence. She combines feminist and intersectional approaches with Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) and participatory methods such as photovoice, centring the voices of marginalized migrant communities. This approach shows a sensitivity to how structural forces shape personal narratives, highlighting the entanglement of macro-level inequalities with everyday lived realities. Her broader research interests include family, care, and the moral and socio-political dimensions of migration in the Global South.
- We will stay after the seminar to enjoy an informal lunch and introductions to the wider research group 1-2pm. Please bring along some food to share.
The event will be hybrid. If you're joining via Zoom, please use this link: https://zoom.us/j/97360136423
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