Performing identities

Women in rural–urban migration in contemporary China

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8945798
AutoresNana Zhang (0009-0007-3480-0953)
Ano2014
Volume54
Páginas17-27
Data de publicação2014-04-13
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGeoforum (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0016-7185 • E-ISSN: 1872-9398
EditoraElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.03.006
OpenAlexW2079220799
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas42
Referências citadas33

This paper is centred on the process of identity and belonging negotiation of rural women in their migration to urban employment in contemporary China. Employing a unique mobile method, the author follows rural women’s migration by gathering data from both sending and receiving areas, and captures the dynamic and situated, fluid nature of rural migrant women’s identity deconstruction and reconstruction processes. The study reveals that rural migrant women readily depart from peasant identity, rejecting the identity of ‘dagongmei’, and at the same time draw up boundaries against other rural migrants in different contexts. The boundaries they draw, however, are not static, but are fluid and ever changing in different circumstances and contexts. Paradoxically, such boundaries serve to reinforce the differentiation among rural migrant women and undermine their solidarity

Aesthetics · China · Deconstruction (building · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Identity (music · Negotiation · Peasant · Political science · Politics · Rural area · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Solidarity · Urbanization · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy