New Theoretical Dialogues on Migration in China

ISBN-13: 9781032427362 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 170 str.

Opis

This book emerges from the observation that the current literatures on migration in China are constrained by a series of shortfalls. It will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of Sociology, Politics, Human Geography, Social Work, and Urban Studies.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Migrant worker museums in China: public cultures of migrant labour in state and grassroots initiatives  3. Reconstituting the neoliberal subjectivity of migrants: Christian theo-ethics and migrant workers in Shenzhen, China  4. Agency and mobility in the context of development-induced migration: the case of Three Gorges out-migrants   5. Chinese ‘snowbirds’ in tropical Sanya: retirement migration and the production of translocal families  6. Circumstantial migration: how Gambian journeys to China enrich migration theory  7. Multiple precarity and intimate family life among African–Chinese families in Guangzhou  8. Dwelling-in-Travelling: Western expats and the making of temporary home in Guangzhou, China  9. Intellectual migration: considering China