Scholar Sau-ling Wong has suggestively characterized immigrants to the U.S. as being driven, paradoxically, by both “necessity” and “extravagance.” If we apply this insight more broadly, then this notion of extravagance would seem to complicate a much narrower view of migration as simply and entirely driven by necessity. In other words, in the spirit of Wong’s descriptive terms, we might observe that immigrants and migrants are not only driven by something like economic necessity, but are also motivated by a kind of daring and creativity, by a fertile imagination and aspirations that might be described as extravagance.
To what extent can you apply this concept from Wong to any of the Chinese women migrants in this story? Can you give a couple of examples of this?
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