By means of qualitative interviews with a selection of
women, I first explore whether the women’s sense of place
related to home, home village and the EPZ area is positive or
negative and whether there are differences among the women
in their sense of place. These women spent their childhoods
at home in rural villages. They migrated to the KEPZ area as
young women, in order to engage in formal industrial work
and have lived a considerable part of their young lives in
the KEPZ area. They know the places intimately: home,
home villages and the KEPZ area. I investigate whether
these women have developed meaningful attachments and
emotional ties to the places where they come from and where
they live now and have a positive sense of place, or whether
they perceive certain of these places negatively due to the
oppression associated with their class, gender and place of
origin.
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