ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the social and environmental injustice experienced by female migrant workers at Guiyu town, Guangdong Province, China, in the context of both environmental pollution and governance. Guiyu town has been highly polluted by the electronic and electric waste recycling industry and is now experiencing rigorous environmental governance. Using a qualitative GIS approach that can visualize the ethnographic and other qualitative data with GIS applications, it reveals the various ways in which power relations based on class, migrant status, gender, and age intersect to produce social and environmental injustice. It shows that female migrant workers are particularly vulnerable to the effects of local environmental pollution and degradation in both working and living spaces. This chapter also indicates that GIS applications can be used to bridge the gap between qualitative and quantitative analyses that often results in the ignorance of the environmental injustice faced by females.
