Building the City by Mark Jayne, Wu Siying, Wu Chenhui - 9781032601007

Building the CityEveryday Lives of Migrant Workers\nAuthor(s): Mark Jayne, Wu Siying, Wu Chenhui\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032601007, 978-1032601007\nSynopsis\nBuilding the City elaborates new critical insights into the everyday lives of migrant workers in cities around the world.\n\nThe book offers complementary blending of longstanding political-economic accounts of migration, gender, labour, and urban life alongside advances in feminist, postcolonial, post-structural, materialist, and more-than-representational theories. Drawing on these critical resources the authors explore the complexities of migrants everyday past, present, and future lives. More specifically, they interrogate diverse and heterogeneous connections between work, domestic, and family times and spaces as well as foregrounding new theoretical and empirical terrain regarding consumption, pleasure, leisure, fashioned, sexual identities, a.