國立成功大學多元文化研究中心

講者: Andrew Alan Johnson (Associate Professor, Ashoka University)

主持人: 曾薰慧 Tseng, Hsun-Hui (國⽴成功⼤學 台灣⽂學系 助理教授)

主辦單位: 國立成功大學台灣文學系

協辦單位: 國⽴成功⼤學性別與婦⼥研究中⼼、國⽴成功⼤學多元文化研究中心、東南亞文化學分學程

時間: June 16 (Friday), 2023, 12:30-14:30

語言: English

地點: Online (No Registration Needed)

簡介:

Migrant labor is often studied at its destination – labor, often diffi cult, exploited, or poorly renumerated labor, exists to send money back to rural communities to sustain families or build hopes. But movement involves transformation and risk, and an engagement with an unknown realm. Workers change, just as homes change, and love and aspirations in turn alter and are altered by travel. The migrants’ ability to deal with otherness both provides a means towards increasing one’s own potency but the risk of making one an outsider “back home.” Here, I trace migrants from northeastern Thailand to East Asia from both migrants’ perspective as well as those who depend upon this migration, questioning how stable our own understandings of ourselves and our homes are, and exploring the instability of hopes, dreams, and loves.