Charlotte Goodburn
Biographic Data
| ID | 343125 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charlotte Goodburn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charlotte |
| FAMILY NAME | Goodburn |
| SIGNATURE | GOODBURN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1133-2775 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 124 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Disciplining production and reproduction in special economic zones beyond China
This article examines the gendered dynamics of dormitory labour regimes (DLRs) within special economic zones (SEZs) beyond China, focusing on rural-urban migrant women in India and Uganda. It positions the DLR as an increasingly global mode of migrant labour control, informed by China’s SEZ model, where dormitory housing became integral to managing a transient, predominantly female, migrant workforce. Based on qualitative fieldwork in two SEZs, t…
Living at work
There is no stable, standard or typical relationship between work and home under global capitalism. Rather we witness shuffling similar cards in new circumstances, with changing forms of accommodation-work arrangements that organize the relation between labour and dwelling, shaping how labour is recruited, fixed, reproduced and valorized. These arrangements bring production and social reproduction into a shifting and often tense unity, making vis…
Exporting People for Development
This article examines how local states in Qinghai have turned labor export into a development strategy, using the province’s “noodle economy” to promote large-scale, long-term out-migration. Drawing on multi-sited qualitative research, it shows how county governments in Hualong and Xunhua have mobilized training, loans, cadre persuasion, and branch offices to encourage Hui and Salar households to establish qingzhen (halal) noodle restaurants acro…
Urbanising the Villages
This article examines outcomes of three different modes of in-situ urbanisation in the context of large “Chinese-style” Special Economic Zone (SEZ) development in rural India, arguing that mode of village incorporation has an important impact on development outcomes for local populations. It compares three Indian cases with the early stages of the SEZ “model” in China’s Shenzhen, where urban villages emerged, a thriving rentier economy grew, and …
Beyond the Dormitory Labour Regime
This article explores two examples of worker housing in India, and compares these with China's 'dormitory labour regime', arguing that these methods of labour accommodation are part of a broader, increasingly global, workplace-residence regime aimed at migrant labour control for the purposes of value extraction. Contrary to previous studies, it argues that China's system is not unique, but part of the political economy of contemporary global capi…
The Urbanization of People
Is China’s Model of SEZ-Led Development Viable? A Call for Smart Replication
While China’s experience of using special economic zones (SEZs) for advancing economic development is a model increasingly adopted in other developing countries, the processes involved in replicating this model elsewhere and the outcomes of such replication remain little understood. This review article’s nested examination of three relevant strands of literature and two case studies of India and Ethiopia indicates that successful replication of C…
Importing export zones
This article examines the development of a south Indian “industrial city”, modelled on a Chinese counterpart. The privately-operated city is a key example of India’s new-style Special Economic Zones (SEZs). These represent a national shift, motivated by China’s SEZ success, from enclave-style “export processing zones” to integrated townships. Drawing on fieldwork from 2018, we compare three issues with the Chinese “model”: the city’s establishmen…
Changing patterns of household decision-making and the education of rural migrant children
In both China and India, migrant families face difficult decisions about education and livelihoods. In China, migrant children have limited access to urban schools, because of high documentary barriers to enrolment. In India, administrative barriers are fewer, but other structural factors, including households’ need for child labour, restrict opportunities. Although much research globally has explored household negotiations leading to migration, …
Growing Up in (and Out of) Shenzhen
Extensive research has shown that rural-to-urban migrant children in China face significant barriers to an urban public primary school education and often end up in poor-quality, migrant-run private schools. However, much less is known about what happens after children leave junior high school. This article therefore draws on two rounds of interviews with migrant children educated in Shenzhen, in 2008–9 and then in 2015–16, to examine in detail t…
Residence Permits and Points Systems
This article draws on analysis of local policy documents and migrant and official interviews to explore the development, implementation and impacts of two aspects of China’s 2014 hukou reforms that have been less scrutinised than the abolition of the rural/urban distinction: the mandatory use of residence permits and points systems for migrants to cities with a population over 5 million. Taking migrant education as a case study, and focusing on S…
Rural-Urban Migration and Gender Disparities in Child Healthcare in China and India
This article assesses the impact of rural-urban migration on gender disparities in children's access to healthcare in China and India. Much research has shown widespread discrimination against girl children in both countries, including in health investments, contributing to the well-known problem of Asia's 'missing' women. Much less clear is the impact of the massive rural-urban migration now occurring in China and India on discrimination against…
Learning from migrant education
Learning from migrant education
Residence Permits and Points Systems
This article draws on analysis of local policy documents and migrant and official interviews to explore the development, implementation and impacts of two aspects of China’s 2014 hukou reforms that have been less scrutinised than the abolition of the rural/urban distinction: the mandatory use of residence permits and points systems for migrants to cities with a population over 5 million. Taking migrant education as a case study, and focusing on S…
Growing Up in (and Out of) Shenzhen
Extensive research has shown that rural-to-urban migrant children in China face significant barriers to an urban public primary school education and often end up in poor-quality, migrant-run private schools. However, much less is known about what happens after children leave junior high school. This article therefore draws on two rounds of interviews with migrant children educated in Shenzhen, in 2008–9 and then in 2015–16, to examine in detail t…
Importing export zones
This article examines the development of a south Indian “industrial city”, modelled on a Chinese counterpart. The privately-operated city is a key example of India’s new-style Special Economic Zones (SEZs). These represent a national shift, motivated by China’s SEZ success, from enclave-style “export processing zones” to integrated townships. Drawing on fieldwork from 2018, we compare three issues with the Chinese “model”: the city’s establishmen…
Beyond the Dormitory Labour Regime
This article explores two examples of worker housing in India, and compares these with China's 'dormitory labour regime', arguing that these methods of labour accommodation are part of a broader, increasingly global, workplace-residence regime aimed at migrant labour control for the purposes of value extraction. Contrary to previous studies, it argues that China's system is not unique, but part of the political economy of contemporary global capi…
Changing patterns of household decision-making and the education of rural migrant children
In both China and India, migrant families face difficult decisions about education and livelihoods. In China, migrant children have limited access to urban schools, because of high documentary barriers to enrolment. In India, administrative barriers are fewer, but other structural factors, including households’ need for child labour, restrict opportunities. Although much research globally has explored household negotiations leading to migration, …
Is China’s Model of SEZ-Led Development Viable? A Call for Smart Replication
While China’s experience of using special economic zones (SEZs) for advancing economic development is a model increasingly adopted in other developing countries, the processes involved in replicating this model elsewhere and the outcomes of such replication remain little understood. This review article’s nested examination of three relevant strands of literature and two case studies of India and Ethiopia indicates that successful replication of C…
Rural-Urban Migration and Gender Disparities in Child Healthcare in China and India
This article assesses the impact of rural-urban migration on gender disparities in children's access to healthcare in China and India. Much research has shown widespread discrimination against girl children in both countries, including in health investments, contributing to the well-known problem of Asia's 'missing' women. Much less clear is the impact of the massive rural-urban migration now occurring in China and India on discrimination against…
Urbanising the Villages
This article examines outcomes of three different modes of in-situ urbanisation in the context of large “Chinese-style” Special Economic Zone (SEZ) development in rural India, arguing that mode of village incorporation has an important impact on development outcomes for local populations. It compares three Indian cases with the early stages of the SEZ “model” in China’s Shenzhen, where urban villages emerged, a thriving rentier economy grew, and …
Learning from migrant education
Rural-Urban Migration and Gender Disparities in Child Healthcare in China and India
This article assesses the impact of rural-urban migration on gender disparities in children's access to healthcare in China and India. Much research has shown widespread discrimination against girl children in both countries, including in health investments, contributing to the well-known problem of Asia's 'missing' women. Much less clear is the impact of the massive rural-urban migration now occurring in China and India on discrimination against…
Changing patterns of household decision-making and the education of rural migrant children
In both China and India, migrant families face difficult decisions about education and livelihoods. In China, migrant children have limited access to urban schools, because of high documentary barriers to enrolment. In India, administrative barriers are fewer, but other structural factors, including households’ need for child labour, restrict opportunities. Although much research globally has explored household negotiations leading to migration, …
Growing Up in (and Out of) Shenzhen
Extensive research has shown that rural-to-urban migrant children in China face significant barriers to an urban public primary school education and often end up in poor-quality, migrant-run private schools. However, much less is known about what happens after children leave junior high school. This article therefore draws on two rounds of interviews with migrant children educated in Shenzhen, in 2008–9 and then in 2015–16, to examine in detail t…
Residence Permits and Points Systems
This article draws on analysis of local policy documents and migrant and official interviews to explore the development, implementation and impacts of two aspects of China’s 2014 hukou reforms that have been less scrutinised than the abolition of the rural/urban distinction: the mandatory use of residence permits and points systems for migrants to cities with a population over 5 million. Taking migrant education as a case study, and focusing on S…
Is China’s Model of SEZ-Led Development Viable? A Call for Smart Replication
While China’s experience of using special economic zones (SEZs) for advancing economic development is a model increasingly adopted in other developing countries, the processes involved in replicating this model elsewhere and the outcomes of such replication remain little understood. This review article’s nested examination of three relevant strands of literature and two case studies of India and Ethiopia indicates that successful replication of C…
Importing export zones
This article examines the development of a south Indian “industrial city”, modelled on a Chinese counterpart. The privately-operated city is a key example of India’s new-style Special Economic Zones (SEZs). These represent a national shift, motivated by China’s SEZ success, from enclave-style “export processing zones” to integrated townships. Drawing on fieldwork from 2018, we compare three issues with the Chinese “model”: the city’s establishmen…
The Urbanization of People
Urbanising the Villages
This article examines outcomes of three different modes of in-situ urbanisation in the context of large “Chinese-style” Special Economic Zone (SEZ) development in rural India, arguing that mode of village incorporation has an important impact on development outcomes for local populations. It compares three Indian cases with the early stages of the SEZ “model” in China’s Shenzhen, where urban villages emerged, a thriving rentier economy grew, and …
Beyond the Dormitory Labour Regime
This article explores two examples of worker housing in India, and compares these with China's 'dormitory labour regime', arguing that these methods of labour accommodation are part of a broader, increasingly global, workplace-residence regime aimed at migrant labour control for the purposes of value extraction. Contrary to previous studies, it argues that China's system is not unique, but part of the political economy of contemporary global capi…
Disciplining production and reproduction in special economic zones beyond China
This article examines the gendered dynamics of dormitory labour regimes (DLRs) within special economic zones (SEZs) beyond China, focusing on rural-urban migrant women in India and Uganda. It positions the DLR as an increasingly global mode of migrant labour control, informed by China’s SEZ model, where dormitory housing became integral to managing a transient, predominantly female, migrant workforce. Based on qualitative fieldwork in two SEZs, t…
Living at work
There is no stable, standard or typical relationship between work and home under global capitalism. Rather we witness shuffling similar cards in new circumstances, with changing forms of accommodation-work arrangements that organize the relation between labour and dwelling, shaping how labour is recruited, fixed, reproduced and valorized. These arrangements bring production and social reproduction into a shifting and often tense unity, making vis…
Exporting People for Development
This article examines how local states in Qinghai have turned labor export into a development strategy, using the province’s “noodle economy” to promote large-scale, long-term out-migration. Drawing on multi-sited qualitative research, it shows how county governments in Hualong and Xunhua have mobilized training, loans, cadre persuasion, and branch offices to encourage Hui and Salar households to establish qingzhen (halal) noodle restaurants acro…
Economics (10 works) · China (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (8 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (5 works)