Anni Ni
Biographic Data
| ID | 191019 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anni Ni |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anni |
| FAMILY NAME | Ni |
| SIGNATURE | NI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-6868-9813 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Flexible Motherhood and the Unequal Logics of Women’s Work
How do women navigate contradictory expectations about motherhood and employment as they cross national and cultural boundaries? This study explores how college-educated Chinese migrants in Singapore interpret the meaning of work throughout migration and motherhood, contributing to feminist scholarship on transnational mobility and the gendered division of labor. Analysis of 36 in-depth interviews reveals how migrant women encounter shifting expe…
From status to soul
Gendered individualisation among never-married Chinese skilled-labour women in Singapore
Selling Motherhood
The feminization of care migration in transnational contexts has received a great deal of attention. Scholars, however, have been slow to investigate a similar trend in intranational contexts. This article expands existing research on global care chains by examining the gendered emotional labor of migrant domestic workers pertaining to China's intranational care chains. While the former often foregrounds 'racial or ethnic discounting,' the latter…
In the Middle of Two Separated Yet Overlapped Spheres
This qualitative research expands previous conceptualization and theorizing of the separation and interaction between the public and private spheres in post-reform urban China to rural migrant women working in urban middle-class women’s private family. Collecting data from a domestic service company and eleven rural nannies in Shanghai, we develop a theoretical framework of separated yet overlapped two spheres for rural women in the urban care se…
Selling Motherhood
The feminization of care migration in transnational contexts has received a great deal of attention. Scholars, however, have been slow to investigate a similar trend in intranational contexts. This article expands existing research on global care chains by examining the gendered emotional labor of migrant domestic workers pertaining to China's intranational care chains. While the former often foregrounds 'racial or ethnic discounting,' the latter…
In the Middle of Two Separated Yet Overlapped Spheres
This qualitative research expands previous conceptualization and theorizing of the separation and interaction between the public and private spheres in post-reform urban China to rural migrant women working in urban middle-class women’s private family. Collecting data from a domestic service company and eleven rural nannies in Shanghai, we develop a theoretical framework of separated yet overlapped two spheres for rural women in the urban care se…
Selling Motherhood
The feminization of care migration in transnational contexts has received a great deal of attention. Scholars, however, have been slow to investigate a similar trend in intranational contexts. This article expands existing research on global care chains by examining the gendered emotional labor of migrant domestic workers pertaining to China's intranational care chains. While the former often foregrounds 'racial or ethnic discounting,' the latter…
In the Middle of Two Separated Yet Overlapped Spheres
This qualitative research expands previous conceptualization and theorizing of the separation and interaction between the public and private spheres in post-reform urban China to rural migrant women working in urban middle-class women’s private family. Collecting data from a domestic service company and eleven rural nannies in Shanghai, we develop a theoretical framework of separated yet overlapped two spheres for rural women in the urban care se…
Gendered individualisation among never-married Chinese skilled-labour women in Singapore
Flexible Motherhood and the Unequal Logics of Women’s Work
How do women navigate contradictory expectations about motherhood and employment as they cross national and cultural boundaries? This study explores how college-educated Chinese migrants in Singapore interpret the meaning of work throughout migration and motherhood, contributing to feminist scholarship on transnational mobility and the gendered division of labor. Analysis of 36 in-depth interviews reveals how migrant women encounter shifting expe…
From status to soul
Migration and Labor Dynamics (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · China (2 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Qualitative research (2 works) · Alienation (1 works)