Fire Dragon Feminism: Asian Migrant Women's Tales of Migration, Coloniality and Racial Capitalism

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Featuring stories of early settler and contemporary Asian migrant women in Asia-Pacific region, including the authors own personal experiences, Fire Dragon Feminism discusses Asian migrant women employees encounters with colonialism, racial capitalism and white patriarchy at their workplace and in their everyday life. Centring and consolidating decolonial, transnational, intersectional and queer feminist strategies, the author introduces 'fire dragon feminism' - a feminist strand that aims to build place-based, migrant feminist principles and ethics for Asian capitalist migrant subjects - to provide a critical intervention for understanding the specificity of a feminist ethics relevant to Asian migrant women living and working in Asia-Pacific settler and postcolonial contexts. Quah Ee Ling tracks the historical migration trajectories of early settler Asian migrant women, reflects on her own encounters with institutional racism, and explores the display of fire dragon feminism in Asian migrant womens grassroots counter-resistance efforts.

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An authentic, painfully self-aware, searing critique of infrastructures of injustice through the holding of space for Asian migrant women academics narratives of chaos, rage, and restitution within contexts of ableist, capitalist, White-Settler, hetero-patriarchy. An invitation to the reader for active listing within an emerging, wounded warrior community seeking redress and connection for positive social change. * Bittiandra Chand Somaiah, Yale-NUS College, Singapore *
Honest, feisty must-read on feminism and the crises of EDI. I laughed, cried, and felt my experiences affirmed. Thank you for offering us hope. * Sylvia Ang, Monash University, Australia *

Author Bio

Quah Ee Ling (she/her) is a senior lecturer in culture & society with Western Sydney University, Australia. She is the author of Transnational Divorce: Understanding Intimacies and Inequalities from Singapore (2020) and Perspectives on Marital Dissolution: Divorce Biographies in Singapore (2015).