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Privileged daughters? Gendered mobility among highly educated Chinese female migrants in the UK
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Tu, Mengwei and Xie, Kailing (2020) Privileged daughters? Gendered mobility among highly educated Chinese female migrants in the UK. Social Inclusion, 8 (2). pp. 68-76. doi:10.17645/si.v8i2.2675
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/si.v8i2.2675
Abstract
The one-child generation daughters born to middle-class Chinese parents enjoy the privilege of concentrated family resources and the opportunity for education overseas. We focus on the “privileged daughters” who have studied abroad and remained overseas as professionals. Using three cases of post-student female migrants who were of different ages and at different life stages, we situate their socioeconomic mobility in the context of intergenerational relationships and transnational social space. Drawing on further interview data from the same project we argue that, although the “privileged daughters” have achieved geographical mobility and upward social mobility, through education and a career in a Western country, their life choices remain heavily influenced by their parents in China. Such findings highlight the transnationally transferred gendered burden among the relatively “elite” cohort, thus revealing a more nuanced gendered interpretation of transnational socioeconomic mobility.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races L Education > LC Special aspects of education |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Women -- Education -- China, Women -- China -- Social conditions, Social mobility -- China, Women -- Employment -- China, International education -- China, Families -- China -- Economic aspects | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Social Inclusion | ||||||
| Publisher: | Cogitatio Press | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2183-2803 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 28 April 2020 | ||||||
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 24 July 2020 | ||||||
| Volume: | 8 | ||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 68-76 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.17645/si.v8i2.2675 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access |
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