A Ridgway
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 58016 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | A Ridgway |
| NOMBRES | A |
| APELLIDO | Ridgway |
| FIRMA | RIDGWAY A |
| AFILIACIONES | RMIT University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7968-1459 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
In the Ghost Town
In this photo essay, I share my experience of uncovering the site of a former migrant camp in Mildura, a regional town in North West Victoria, Australia where displaced persons (DPs) were housed after the Second World War. Through photography, prose and reflections, I seek to transport readers to the abandoned site where they can follow me as I seek to uncover traces of the migrant camp’s past, while reflecting upon what has been forgotten and wh…
Australia's Migration Strategy
A series of publicised migrant worker injuries and deaths has drawn attention to the issue of migrant worker exploitation (MWE) in Australia. In response, the Australian Government has included ‘Tackling Worker Exploitation’ as a key area of its Migration Strategy which it introduced in 2023. However, it is unclear how effective the Strategy’ s approach is in addressing this significant area of concern. Using Carol Bacchi's What's the Problem Rep…
That Was My Power”
Divorce is, for many, unsettling and, for some, it can even be traumatic. In rupturing a significant intimate relationship, divorce raises difficult questions regarding one's sense of self and life path. For migrant wives, separation takes on additional dimensions, disrupting plans for their personal lives along with their migration journeys. Divorced migrant women draw on various resources during separation and yet research has paid scant attent…
Leveraging expat bubbles
In Hong Kong’s bustling metropolis, expatriate (‘expat’) bubbles operate as privileged social enclaves, offering their members fruitful access to information, spaces, networks and resources. Some migrants, such as white, male corporates originating from the Global North, readily benefit from expat bubbles as information-gathering spaces. Others face greater challenges in utilising these bubbles to their full potential. This article draws on the s…
I think I misspoke earlier. My bad!’
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools that appear to perform with care and empathy can quickly gain users’ trust. For this reason, GenAI tools that attempt to replicate human responses have heightened potential to misinform and deceive people. This article examines how three GenAI tools, within divergent contexts, mimic credible emotional responsiveness: OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the National Eating Disorder Association’s Tessa and Luka’s Repl…
Time Will Tell
Drawing on qualitative interviews with both victim-survivors (n = 11) and specialist service providers (n = 11) in Victoria (Australia), this article analyses formal support-seeking for co-occurring family violence and sexual harm through a temporal lens. Our findings focus on two main themes: (i) victim-survivor readiness and trauma-informed support; and (ii) service readiness, time constraints and delays in providing support. The analysis sheds…
Performing under pressure
Migrant wives on spouse visas find themselves in a state of transition. The conditional and temporary nature of their legal status positions these women precariously, with their wait for permanency causing legal limbo. Although research into the insecurity and precarity of women on spouse visas is increasing, we know little about how power imbalances between these women and their sponsor husbands are enacted and sustained through quotidian family…
To call my own”
For women who migrated for marriage, life after divorce may be characterised by disappointment, sorrow, and despair. Yet, leisure activities can transform their lives and emotions after separation. Using detailed case studies of five migrant women who experienced divorce in Hong Kong, this article examines how leisure with and within green and blue spaces can release negative emotions generated by this difficult life event while also creating opp…
When Descriptor is Diagnosis
Women with chronic vulvar pain experience symptoms that can affect their everyday functioning. These women are often diagnosed with vulvodynia, defined as vulvar pain without a medical explanation lasting at least three months. Yet while vulvodynia is presented by medical authorities as a diagnosis it is, more accurately, a descriptor of the physical condition. As such it does not have the ability to explain what causes this vulvar pain and, cons…
Love, loss and a doctorate
The death of a parent can strike at our very core, rattling our sense of self and raising questions of how we could possibly continue beyond their departure. For the PhD student, parental loss can act as a significant disruption, saddling them with a heavy emotional toll to carry alongside the typical challenges of completing a thesis. Yet, parental death can also be transformative, providing the doctoral student with a powerful reason to perseve…
In the Depths
The process of gaining a PhD does not occur in isolation; it is situated within and against the contexts doctoral students find themselves in at any given time. Through sharing three diary entries penned in the depths of my PhD in Hong Kong in 2017, I highlight the interconnections between particularly memorable events and junctures within my doctoral journey. In so doing, I reveal the importance of journaling for identifying the echoes between p…
“I Had Faith”
Migrant women may find themselves highly isolated and marginalized if their marriage ends overseas. For divorcees who are religious or spiritual, drawing upon these belief systems can help them grieve the partnership loss while also planning for their post-divorce future. This article qualitatively examines the biographies of nine migrant women in Melbourne, Australia who constructively used their beliefs during and after divorce to reframe the p…
Looking Within
Self-examinations of researcher positionality are central to understanding how scholars engage with research populations and vice versa. Discussions of how researchers are positioned are considered particularly important when studying groups whose vulnerability is well-accepted. Less is known, however, about the role of researcher positionality when interviewing participants deemed privileged, such as expatriates. Researchers who study expatriate…
From paradise to prison
British migration to Australia may be motivated by the paradisiacal glow in which the country is framed, but personal lives after arrival can upset these pre‐migratory spatial imaginaries, evoking feelings of darkness, doom, horror, isolation, and imprisonment. This article uses two concepts—that of spatial imaginaries and that of biographical disruptions—to unpack the stories of three British migrant women whose idealised expectations of Austral…
The woman writer's body
What goes behind the scene of a woman writer's writing process? Beneath shiny finished writing products lies an arduous writing process often remain unseen to readers. The article makes visible two women writers' bodies and our embodied writing experiences through an intersectional feminist lens. Writer One is a Singapore‐born, ethnic Chinese, queer migrant woman academic residing in Australia with her long‐term partner. Writer Two is an England‐…
To call my own”
For women who migrated for marriage, life after divorce may be characterised by disappointment, sorrow, and despair. Yet, leisure activities can transform their lives and emotions after separation. Using detailed case studies of five migrant women who experienced divorce in Hong Kong, this article examines how leisure with and within green and blue spaces can release negative emotions generated by this difficult life event while also creating opp…
The woman writer's body
What goes behind the scene of a woman writer's writing process? Beneath shiny finished writing products lies an arduous writing process often remain unseen to readers. The article makes visible two women writers' bodies and our embodied writing experiences through an intersectional feminist lens. Writer One is a Singapore‐born, ethnic Chinese, queer migrant woman academic residing in Australia with her long‐term partner. Writer Two is an England‐…
When Descriptor is Diagnosis
Women with chronic vulvar pain experience symptoms that can affect their everyday functioning. These women are often diagnosed with vulvodynia, defined as vulvar pain without a medical explanation lasting at least three months. Yet while vulvodynia is presented by medical authorities as a diagnosis it is, more accurately, a descriptor of the physical condition. As such it does not have the ability to explain what causes this vulvar pain and, cons…
Looking Within
Self-examinations of researcher positionality are central to understanding how scholars engage with research populations and vice versa. Discussions of how researchers are positioned are considered particularly important when studying groups whose vulnerability is well-accepted. Less is known, however, about the role of researcher positionality when interviewing participants deemed privileged, such as expatriates. Researchers who study expatriate…
Time Will Tell
Drawing on qualitative interviews with both victim-survivors (n = 11) and specialist service providers (n = 11) in Victoria (Australia), this article analyses formal support-seeking for co-occurring family violence and sexual harm through a temporal lens. Our findings focus on two main themes: (i) victim-survivor readiness and trauma-informed support; and (ii) service readiness, time constraints and delays in providing support. The analysis sheds…
From paradise to prison
British migration to Australia may be motivated by the paradisiacal glow in which the country is framed, but personal lives after arrival can upset these pre‐migratory spatial imaginaries, evoking feelings of darkness, doom, horror, isolation, and imprisonment. This article uses two concepts—that of spatial imaginaries and that of biographical disruptions—to unpack the stories of three British migrant women whose idealised expectations of Austral…
From paradise to prison
British migration to Australia may be motivated by the paradisiacal glow in which the country is framed, but personal lives after arrival can upset these pre‐migratory spatial imaginaries, evoking feelings of darkness, doom, horror, isolation, and imprisonment. This article uses two concepts—that of spatial imaginaries and that of biographical disruptions—to unpack the stories of three British migrant women whose idealised expectations of Austral…
The woman writer's body
What goes behind the scene of a woman writer's writing process? Beneath shiny finished writing products lies an arduous writing process often remain unseen to readers. The article makes visible two women writers' bodies and our embodied writing experiences through an intersectional feminist lens. Writer One is a Singapore‐born, ethnic Chinese, queer migrant woman academic residing in Australia with her long‐term partner. Writer Two is an England‐…
“I Had Faith”
Migrant women may find themselves highly isolated and marginalized if their marriage ends overseas. For divorcees who are religious or spiritual, drawing upon these belief systems can help them grieve the partnership loss while also planning for their post-divorce future. This article qualitatively examines the biographies of nine migrant women in Melbourne, Australia who constructively used their beliefs during and after divorce to reframe the p…
Looking Within
Self-examinations of researcher positionality are central to understanding how scholars engage with research populations and vice versa. Discussions of how researchers are positioned are considered particularly important when studying groups whose vulnerability is well-accepted. Less is known, however, about the role of researcher positionality when interviewing participants deemed privileged, such as expatriates. Researchers who study expatriate…
Love, loss and a doctorate
The death of a parent can strike at our very core, rattling our sense of self and raising questions of how we could possibly continue beyond their departure. For the PhD student, parental loss can act as a significant disruption, saddling them with a heavy emotional toll to carry alongside the typical challenges of completing a thesis. Yet, parental death can also be transformative, providing the doctoral student with a powerful reason to perseve…
In the Depths
The process of gaining a PhD does not occur in isolation; it is situated within and against the contexts doctoral students find themselves in at any given time. Through sharing three diary entries penned in the depths of my PhD in Hong Kong in 2017, I highlight the interconnections between particularly memorable events and junctures within my doctoral journey. In so doing, I reveal the importance of journaling for identifying the echoes between p…
To call my own”
For women who migrated for marriage, life after divorce may be characterised by disappointment, sorrow, and despair. Yet, leisure activities can transform their lives and emotions after separation. Using detailed case studies of five migrant women who experienced divorce in Hong Kong, this article examines how leisure with and within green and blue spaces can release negative emotions generated by this difficult life event while also creating opp…
When Descriptor is Diagnosis
Women with chronic vulvar pain experience symptoms that can affect their everyday functioning. These women are often diagnosed with vulvodynia, defined as vulvar pain without a medical explanation lasting at least three months. Yet while vulvodynia is presented by medical authorities as a diagnosis it is, more accurately, a descriptor of the physical condition. As such it does not have the ability to explain what causes this vulvar pain and, cons…
I think I misspoke earlier. My bad!’
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools that appear to perform with care and empathy can quickly gain users’ trust. For this reason, GenAI tools that attempt to replicate human responses have heightened potential to misinform and deceive people. This article examines how three GenAI tools, within divergent contexts, mimic credible emotional responsiveness: OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the National Eating Disorder Association’s Tessa and Luka’s Repl…
Time Will Tell
Drawing on qualitative interviews with both victim-survivors (n = 11) and specialist service providers (n = 11) in Victoria (Australia), this article analyses formal support-seeking for co-occurring family violence and sexual harm through a temporal lens. Our findings focus on two main themes: (i) victim-survivor readiness and trauma-informed support; and (ii) service readiness, time constraints and delays in providing support. The analysis sheds…
Performing under pressure
Migrant wives on spouse visas find themselves in a state of transition. The conditional and temporary nature of their legal status positions these women precariously, with their wait for permanency causing legal limbo. Although research into the insecurity and precarity of women on spouse visas is increasing, we know little about how power imbalances between these women and their sponsor husbands are enacted and sustained through quotidian family…
In the Ghost Town
In this photo essay, I share my experience of uncovering the site of a former migrant camp in Mildura, a regional town in North West Victoria, Australia where displaced persons (DPs) were housed after the Second World War. Through photography, prose and reflections, I seek to transport readers to the abandoned site where they can follow me as I seek to uncover traces of the migrant camp’s past, while reflecting upon what has been forgotten and wh…
Australia's Migration Strategy
A series of publicised migrant worker injuries and deaths has drawn attention to the issue of migrant worker exploitation (MWE) in Australia. In response, the Australian Government has included ‘Tackling Worker Exploitation’ as a key area of its Migration Strategy which it introduced in 2023. However, it is unclear how effective the Strategy’ s approach is in addressing this significant area of concern. Using Carol Bacchi's What's the Problem Rep…
That Was My Power”
Divorce is, for many, unsettling and, for some, it can even be traumatic. In rupturing a significant intimate relationship, divorce raises difficult questions regarding one's sense of self and life path. For migrant wives, separation takes on additional dimensions, disrupting plans for their personal lives along with their migration journeys. Divorced migrant women draw on various resources during separation and yet research has paid scant attent…
Leveraging expat bubbles
In Hong Kong’s bustling metropolis, expatriate (‘expat’) bubbles operate as privileged social enclaves, offering their members fruitful access to information, spaces, networks and resources. Some migrants, such as white, male corporates originating from the Global North, readily benefit from expat bubbles as information-gathering spaces. Others face greater challenges in utilising these bubbles to their full potential. This article draws on the s…
Sociology (9 obras) · Psychology (8 obras) · Gender Studies (7 obras) · Gender Studies (5 obras) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Social Psychology (5 obras) · Autoethnography (3 obras) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (3 obras) · Social Psychology (3 obras)