ABSTRACT
The laws and policies in Hong Kong and their home countries make it essentially impossible to be both a good worker and a good wife/mother/daughter. Migrant workers challenge Hong Kong’s attempt to define them as just workers, and they contest their own state’s attempts to label them as bad women. [ . . . ] They aspire to be good mothers and workers, and sometimes wives, which is nearly impossible to do as legal workers in Hong Kong or as single mothers back home.
