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Rural women migrant returnees in contemporary China
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Zhang, Nana (2013) Rural women migrant returnees in contemporary China. Journal of Peasant Studies, Volume 40 (Number 1). pp. 171-188. doi:10.1080/03066150.2012.749867 ISSN 0306-6150.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2012.749867
Abstract
This essay focuses on the experiences of female returnees in rural–urban migration in contemporary China. Based on in-depth interviews with women migrants, returnees, their family members, friends and fellow villagers in both sending and receiving areas, the research examines rural migrant women's return migration process. It investigates rural migrant women's decision-making in the process, the ways women returnees construct their lives in the countryside, their identity negotiation as returnees and the impact of patriarchy on women's experiences of the return and resettlement process. The author argues that despite women's active involvement in migration and the ‘empowerment and agency’ gained through migration, the patriarchal power relations within rural households remain intact and continue to shape rural female returnees' life in their villages.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Peasant Studies | ||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
ISSN: | 0306-6150 | ||||
Official Date: | 5 February 2013 | ||||
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Volume: | Volume 40 | ||||
Number: | Number 1 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 171-188 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1080/03066150.2012.749867 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published |
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