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    Little Manila in Hong Kong is an area populated by Filipino migrant workers. [1] It emerged in the 1970s as Hong Kong shifted to a service economy and allowed foreign workers. [2] Locals often view it negatively as an "eyesore" or "nuisance" while workers find community. [3] Workers adapt through everyday practices like speaking Tagalog and maintaining cultural traditions. [3] The transient nature of Little Manila and its residents symbolizes the liminal status of Filipino workers in Hong Kong.

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    Little Manila in Hong Kong is an area populated by Filipino migrant workers. [1] It emerged in the 1970s as Hong Kong shifted to a service economy and allowed foreign workers. [2] Locals often view it negatively as an "eyesore" or "nuisance" while workers find community. [3] Workers adapt through everyday practices like speaking Tagalog and maintaining cultural traditions. [3] The transient nature of Little Manila and its residents symbolizes the liminal status of Filipino workers in Hong Kong.

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    Little Manila in Hong Kong is an area populated by Filipino migrant workers. [1] It emerged in the 1970s as Hong Kong shifted to a service economy and allowed foreign workers. [2] Locals often view it negatively as an "eyesore" or "nuisance" while workers find community. [3] Workers adapt through everyday practices like speaking Tagalog and maintaining cultural traditions. [3] The transient nature of Little Manila and its residents symbolizes the liminal status of Filipino workers in Hong Kong.

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    Group 4

    Messy Urbanism:
    Understanding Other Cities
    of Asia
    Case Study
    Little Manila, Hongkong
    location
    Little Manila, Hongkong
    affirmed the employer’s status

    cheaper
    “modern” type easy to communicate
    with

    emergence
    Philippines Migrant Workers

    1970 1973
    Hong Kong shifted from an industry-based to a Policies for allowing foreign national workers to work as
    service-oriented economy. domestic helpers.
    interactions
    border

    locals foreign
    workers
    Perceive as holiday destination
    “eyesore”

    places for leisure and pleasure


    activities - do not have a place
    “invading” “taking over” of their own

    “nuisance” “too
    noisy,” “dirty”
    activities language

    adaptation
    “sensuous geographies” brings the focus to the
    everyday practices of migrant workers.

    emotional
    blanket
    Loneliness and Homesickness
    results
    “Messy Geography”
    SPECTER -
    CENTRAL

    Foreign
    “metaphorize the dominant order” Workers

    Ackbar Abbas’s semiotic analysis of Central suggests


    that the urban cityscape upholds the symbolic borders focauldian -
    of political and economic power. (Ackbar Abbas) panoptic
    gaze
    LE PERRUQUE - THE WIG
    The ability to slip between formal structures and rules and to recognize the limits of what it can get aways with

    Tactics cause by Absence of Power

    Times, Opportunities, Power

    Liminal Spaces

    Trompe l’oeil - tricks


    The temporal and transient nature that characterize little manila
    also symbolize, to a large extent, the plight of the philippino
    population in Hong Kong - both share the liminal space of being an HOST//GUEST//
    exception to the norm. PARASITES
    POPULATION I
    N
    HONG KONG
    C
    IDENTIFIABLE L
    U WORKER
    D PHILIPINO
    E
    D
    -
    CLASSIFIABLE DESCRIABLE O ACTIVITIES
    PARASITE
    U
    T
    LOCALS
    PROBLEM FOR WORKER
    in messy urbanism.

    They do not belong and are not regarded as part of the host country.

    THREATEN THE SYSTEM


    POACHERS IS THERE A
    BURDEN FOR SOCIETY GOOD
    PARASITES
    RISK AND JEOPARDY GUEST ARE FOREIGN ?
    PARASITE
    YES.

    “STEAL OUR RICE BOWL”


    FORMING
    DIVERSITY
    Conclusion
    Adaptation of environment is the consequences towards
    the organization and perspective of power in little manila
    and it is heavily linked with the perception of law use in a In little Manila migrant
    space to see the activities as legalize structures. workers do not vandalize
    The parasite interrupts the system, but new system form, the face of Hong Kong,
    and the host becomes the parasite and so on and so forth
    they are what
    until the chain becomes a complex system of relationships
    that is the society. makes Hong Kong.
    They ignore that eradication brings with it the message
    and the documented the system of which they themselves
    as parasites are part.

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