Migrant Ecologies investigates how Zheng Xiaoqiong's poetry exposes the entanglements of migrant ecologies with local and global networks of capital and labor and the challenges faced by women migrant workers.
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Migrant Ecologies as a Site of Critical Inquiry
Chapter 1: Vignettes of Material Memoirs: Toxic Environment and Women Migrant Workers' Industrial Diseases
Chapter 2: "Carceral Capitalism": Factory Cities and Villages-in-the-City
Chapter 3: The Other Scene of Globalization: Hollow Villages and Migrant Workers' Families
Conclusion: A Politics of Migrant Ecologies
Bibliography
Index
About the Author and Translator
Zheng Xiaoqiong, a critically acclaimed contemporary poet in China, has published twelve collections of poetry.
Zhou Xiaojing is professor of English at University of the Pacific. She is the author of Cities of Others: Reimagining Urban Spaces in Asian American Literature and The Ethics and Poetics of Alterity in Asian American Poetry.