'We also have lives, you know': Social media and identity work of Filipina labour migrants in Hong Kong.

This article examines how Filipina labour migrants in Hong Kong use social media to negotiate and resist dominant identity discourses that confine them primarily to the role of foreign domestic workers (FDWs). Through a multimodal discursive analysis of three social media cases—two blogs and a private Facebook account—supplemented by semi-structured interviews, the study reveals how these women challenge limiting stereotypes tied to gender, race, and class by presenting alternative narratives of selfhood beyond the prevailing images of servitude and hardship. The article situates these identity negotiations within the broader socio-political contexts of Philippine labour export policies and Hong Kong's immigration regime, highlighting the migrants' use of online platforms to rehumanize and diversify their representations despite structural constraints. Ultimately, the findings underscore the provisional and contested nature of migrant identity as enacted through social media's multimodal affordances, offering a form of "defiant mediated misrecognition" that contests dominant cultural imaginaries.