Becoming Subject

Chinese Female Migrants in Switzerland within a Transnational Family–Individual Dichotomy

Bibliographic Data

ID6017282
AuthorsYali Chen (0000-0001-9407-7049, University of Geneva, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume13
Issue1
Pages5-34
Publication date2019-06-07
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTranslocal Chinese East Asian Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2452-2007 • E-ISSN: 2452-2015
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/24522015-01301002
OpenAlexW2950836970
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited51

This article argues that Chinese female migrants in Switzerland exert their agency to become the subject responsible for the care practices for their families in both Switzerland and China during their post-migratory lives. Based on fieldwork comprising 52 semi-structured interviews conducted with Chinese female migrants in Switzerland during 2016 and 2017, this article analyses the strategies Chinese female migrants develop to ensure their social role as woman, migrant, wife, mother, and daughter. Their self-development is also realized through the adjustment of their opinions about their roles and lives within household activities in Switzerland, and their strategies for making sense of the transnational parental care practice by overcoming difficulties induced by different social power relations during their post-migratory life from a gendered perspective

Agency (philosophy · China · Daughter · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Wife · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics

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