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Deirdre McKay's Outputs (2)

Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development (2019)
Book Chapter
McKay. (2019). Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development. In Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development

This chapter explores the migration corridor between the Philippines and Hong Kong. A long-established destination for largely female migrants taking up domestic work, Hong Kong offers Filipino workers proximity to home and public space in which to s... Read More about Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development.

Citizen aid, social media, and brokerage after disaster (2019)
Journal Article
McKay, D., & Perez, P. (2019). Citizen aid, social media, and brokerage after disaster. Third World Quarterly, 1903-1920. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2019.1634470

In a crisis, aid providers deliver humanitarian relief across a hierarchy of organisations where influence and capacity map to their scale of operations (Fouksman, 2016; Mercer & Green, 2015). On the front lines of crises, ‘citizen aid’ is what small... Read More about Citizen aid, social media, and brokerage after disaster.