Migration, Superdiversity, and Encounters of the Intimate Kind in Home-Spaces

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ID23612907
AuthorsB S A Yeoh (0000-0002-0240-3175, National University of Singapore, corresponding author)
Year2022
Pages247-260
Publication date2022-05-19
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueOxford Handbook of Superdiversity (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197544938.013.19
OpenAlexW4281262378
ISBN9780197544938
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited43

This chapter extends existing spatial and scalar conceptualizations of superdiversity by examining the politics of encounter in the microlevel spaces of the home. Anchored in the growing body of literature on the “geographies of encounter” and drawing predominantly from Asian experiences of care and intimacy in the context of live-in migrant domestic workers and marriage migrants, the chapter re-presents the home-space as a site—and one that is sustained by—of multiple axes of power and difference that operate along the lines of gender, race/ethnicity, class, and nationality, contradicting the dominant notions of home as private, familiar, and familial. The chapter also shows how home-space operates as a site of struggle, reflecting the uneasy balance between hierarchical and affinal relationships across both economic and affective terrains. By turning the analytical spotlight on the home, the chapter shows how the politics of superdiversity permeates urban space through the microspaces of intimacy and familiarity.

Context (archaeology) · Ethnic group · Geography · Immigration · Nationality · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

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