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.
(Spring 2004)
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A welcome addition to the burgeoning literature on international migration...It behooves social scientists in all fields, from anthropology to economics, to pay heed to their message.
(Satyananda J. Gabriel China Review International Vol. 7 No. 1)This book is a fascinating and important study. It should appeal to many readers.
(Hiroko Tomida Rural History )The book provides an important service in highlighting the many issues involved in women's rural-to-urban migration.
(Alice Goldstein The China Journal )On the Move is an extremely well-researched book... [It] carefully balances the emphasis on agency with accurate descriptions of the women's struggles.
(Paola Voci New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies )About the Author
Tamara Jacka is Fellow, Gender Relations Center, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. She is the author of Women's Work in Rural China: Change and Continuity in an Era of Reform. She lives in Canberra, Australia. Arianne M. Gaetano is an advanced doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of Southern California. She currently resides in Massachusetts.
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In the broadest sense, the goal of China's reform platform is to achieve a modernity (xiandaihua) that involves "linking tracks with the rest of the world" (yu shijie jiegui) and otherwise overcoming a sense of having fallen behind the more economically advanced West. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
rural working women, compassionate journalism, married migrant women, rural migrant women, rural women migrants, most migrant women, nonmigrant women, other migrant women, rural labor mobility, young migrant women, migrant brides, young rural women, rural daughters, marriage migrants, migrant women workers, urban hukou, migrant wives, migrant woman, working sisters, urban registration, migrant work, double outsiders, urban prejudice, migrant domestic workers, perennial stories Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Women's Federation, Rural Women Knowing All, Interview Records, Spring Festival, Hong Zhaodi, Changing Village, Liu Fanmei, Hong Kong, Zhou Rencong, Huang Zhihua, Migrant Women's Club, Public Security Bureau, Wang Xiangfen, Labor Law, Little Pei, Xie Aimin, Zhou Lili, Cindy Fan, Fat Auntie, Focal Point, Mian Xiaohong, Nongjianii Baishitong, Pang Hui, Tamara Jacka, Tian Weiwei New!
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In the broadest sense, the goal of China's reform platform is to achieve a modernity (xiandaihua) that involves "linking tracks with the rest of the world" (yu shijie jiegui) and otherwise overcoming a sense of having fallen behind the more economically advanced West. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
rural working women, compassionate journalism, married migrant women, rural migrant women, rural women migrants, most migrant women, nonmigrant women, other migrant women, rural labor mobility, young migrant women, migrant brides, young rural women, rural daughters, marriage migrants, migrant women workers, urban hukou, migrant wives, migrant woman, working sisters, urban registration, migrant work, double outsiders, urban prejudice, migrant domestic workers, perennial stories Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Women's Federation, Rural Women Knowing All, Interview Records, Spring Festival, Hong Zhaodi, Changing Village, Liu Fanmei, Hong Kong, Zhou Rencong, Huang Zhihua, Migrant Women's Club, Public Security Bureau, Wang Xiangfen, Labor Law, Little Pei, Xie Aimin, Zhou Lili, Cindy Fan, Fat Auntie, Focal Point, Mian Xiaohong, Nongjianii Baishitong, Pang Hui, Tamara Jacka, Tian Weiwei New!
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- Rural Labor Flows in China (Research Papers and Policy Studies) by Loraine A. West on 5 pages
- Gender and Migration in Developing Countries by Sylvia Chant in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Country and the City by Raymond Williams in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Farewell to Peasant China: Rural Urbanization and Social Change in the Late Twentieth Century (Studies on Contemporary China) by Gregory Eliyu Guldin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Women of China: Economic and Social Transformation by Jackie West in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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