Time, (im)mobility and social reproduction
Self-development of Chinese migrant women workers in Singapore
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3645928 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wei Yang (0000-0001-7249-4386, Nanyang Technological University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1959-1976 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Community (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1369183x.2022.2125864 |
| OpenAlex | W4296896519 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 36 |
This article uses time as an analytical frame to examine low-wage migrants’ aspirations and strategies in negotiating social mobility and reproduction under temporary migration regimes. Drawing on an ethnographic study of Chinese migrant women factory workers who actively pursue self-development during their sojourns in Singapore, this article demonstrates that time is central to understanding migrant women’s mobility aspirations and social reproduction strategies as well as the structural conditions that propel them to embark on self-development. It underscores the diversity of migrants’ experiences of time and the rhythms of their personal and family lives and how they are inextricably linked to temporal processes of migration and production. Through the temporal lens, the article also sheds light on the workings of temporary migration regimes under neoliberalism. It points out the contradiction between state attempts to constitute low-wage migrants as immobile labouring subjects and the temporal nature of migrant subject-making and skills development. It also shows how migrants’ pursuit of self-development and enactment of agency paradoxically play into the dominant ideology and become a site for surplus value extraction. The article contributes to the temporal approach to the intersection of migration, mobility and social reproduction
Political science · Reproduction · Social mobility · Social reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Wage · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Socioeconomic Development in Asia
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New Global Politics of Reproductive Labor
The social reproductive worlds of migrants
The Difference Gender Makes
Transience and Settlement
Bifurcated Labour
Regionalization, Economic Restructuring and Labour Migration in Singapore
On waiting, work-time and imagined futures
Migration and the invisible economies of care
"Doing Family in "Times of Migration
Labor Transplant
Homeward bound
Learning in neoliberal times
Enforced temporariness and skilled migrants' family plans
Social construction of skill
The mobility pathways of migrant domestic workers
The Times of Migration
An Im/mobility turn
Long distance intimacy
"Temporary Couples" among Chinese Migrant Workers in Singapore
Suspension
The Corporeal Politics of Quality (Suzhi)
The cosmopolis and the migrant domestic worker
Filipina domestic workers in Hong Kong
Making time
Introduction
Migrant, interrupted
Afterword
Multiple mobilities and entrepreneurial modalities among Chinese marriage migrants in Malaysia
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |