Leisure as a Constraint and a Manifesto for Empowerment

The Life Story of a Chinese Female Migrant Worker

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11216677
AutoresMonica Z Li (Beijing International Studies University, autor correspondente), Monika Stodolska (0000-0002-1727-2841, Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA)
Ano2022
Volume44
Fascículo1
Páginas121-137
Data de publicação2022-01-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLeisure Sciences (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0149-0400 • E-ISSN: 1521-0588
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01490400.2018.1483854
OpenAlexW2890694884
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas38

Using a series of life-story interviews with a female migrant live-in caregiver in Beijing, this study examined the history and evolution of the migrant worker’s migration and the impacts it had on her leisure experience, identities, values, and social positions. The findings revealed that migration imposed unique constraints on her leisure, such as those related to the overlap of work and leisure time and space, limited finances, preference for money accumulation over spending on leisure, illiteracy, alienation from the host population, and a breakdown of family ties. Migration to the city, however, also led to her economic and gender empowerment, presented new leisure opportunities, and contributed to the development of new leisure attitudes

Alienation · Beijing · Casual · China · Constraint (computer-aided design · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Empowerment · Functional illiteracy · Leisure activity · Political science · Population · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of leisure · Demography · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Gender Studies · Psychology · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts