1st Edition

New Theoretical Dialogues on Migration in China

Edited By Hong Zhu, Junxi Qian Copyright 2023
184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

This edited book emerges from the observation that the current literatures on migration in China are constrained by a series of shortfalls, including a relative topical homogeneity centred on domestic labour migration; relatively narrowly conceived and institutionalist conceptions of migration and migrants, without adequate attention paid to the identities, agencies and everyday experiences of... Read more

1. Introduction

Hong Zhu and Junxi Qian

2. Migrant worker museums in China: public cultures of migrant labour in state and grassroots initiatives

Junxi Qian and Eric Florence

3. Reconstituting the neoliberal subjectivity of migrants: Christian theo-ethics and migrant workers in Shenzhen, China

Quan Gao

4. Agency and mobility in the context of development-induced migration: the case of Three Gorges out-migrants

Dan Feng, Hong Zhu and Yihan Wang

5. Chinese ‘snowbirds’ in tropical Sanya: retirement migration and the production of translocal families

Jingfu Chen and Jigang Bao

6. Circumstantial migration: how Gambian journeys to China enrich migration theory

Jørgen Carling and Heidi Østbø Haugen

7. Multiple precarity and intimate family life among African–Chinese families in Guangzhou

Lucy Jordan, Andrew Pau Hoang, Cheryl H. K. Chui, Wei Wang and Valentina Mazzucato

8. Dwelling-in-Travelling: Western expats and the making of temporary home in Guangzhou, China

Xiaomei Cai and Xiaobo Su

9. Intellectual migration: considering China

Wei Li, Lucia Lo, Yixi Lu, Yining Tan and Zheng Lu

Biography

Hong Zhu is Distinguished Professor and Director of South China Centre for Human Geography and Urban Development at Guangzhou University and Guangdong Provincial Research Institute of Urban and Migration, China. He is a leading Social and Cultural Geographer in China and serves as the Vice-Chair of Cultural Geography Commission, Chinese Geographical Society.

Junxi Qian is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China. His current research interests include religion, indigenous development, cultural economic geography and urban theory of China.