Fire Dragon Feminism

Featuring stories of early settler and contemporary Asian migrant women in Asia-Pacific region, including the author’s 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 women’s grassroots counter-resistance efforts.