On the Move: Women and Rural-to-Urban Migration in Contemporary China

✍ Scribed by Arianne Gaetano (editor); Tamara Jacka (editor)

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Leaves: 366
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book explores the impact of migration on the identities, values, worldviews, and social positions of migrant women in contemporary China based on original fieldwork as well as in-depth research in multiple regions of China.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Focusing on Migrant Women
Part 1 NEGOTIATING IDENTITIES
1. Filial Daughters, Modern Women: Migrant Domestic Workers in Post-Mao Beijing
2. From Peasant Women to Bar Hostesses: Gender and Modernity in Post-Mao Dalian
3. Indoctrination, Fetishization, and Compassion: Media Constructions of Migrant Woman
Part 2 SEEKING A FUTURE
4. Dilemmas of the Heart: Rural Working Women and Their Hopes for the Future
5. Living as Double Outsiders: Migrant Women's Experiences of Marriage in a County-Level City
Part 3 CHANGING VILLAGE LIFE
6. Out to the City and Back to the Village: The Experiences and Contributions of Rural Women Migrating from Sichuan and Anhui
7. The Migration Experiences of Young Women from Four Counties in Sichuan and Anhui
8. The Impact of Labor Migration on the Well-Being and Agency of Rural Chinese Women: Cultural and Economic Contexts and the Life Course
Part 4 WRITING LIVES
9. Migrant Women's Stories
10. My Life as a Migrant Worker
Let Bygones Be Bygones
The Law Is by My Side
Burdened Youth
I Am a Cloud
Looking Back, I Am Proud
Leaving Huaihua Valley: A Sichuan Girl's Own Account of Being a Migrant Worker
Working for Myself
Glossary of Chinese Terms
References
Contributors
Index

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