Chinese Women as Transnational Migrants

Gender and Class in Global Migration Narratives

Bibliographic Data

ID9954940
AuthorsJan Ryan (Edith Cowan University, corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume40
Issue2
Pages93-116
Publication date2002-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Migration (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7985 • E-ISSN: 1468-2435
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1468-2435.00192
OpenAlexW2048814901
LanguageEN
Citations received19
References cited9

This paper argues that the debates on transnationalism are gender implicit, and the discourse shaped by the emergence of Pacific Asian economies as key players in the global economy sees men as the dominant representative of these global forces. Belief in a real or imagined global bonding has become a dominant and problematic discourse that can empower some, while marginalizing others. It is important to examine how women of Chinese ancestry position themselves within their personal and global environments and to give agency to women in these narratives fashioned by tropes of global capitalism and world markets. Women now outnumber male immigrants to the major immigration countries of Australia, the United States, and Canada, and this shift is due to the increased migration of women from Asian countries. Yet their position in transmigration and settlement patterns has largely been ignored. This paper argues that the global perspective of Chinese diasporic women has significant implications for both Western and non‐Western global patterning. The site of the investigation is Australia in the post 1970s and the focus is on women of Chinese ancestry re‐migrating from East and South‐East Asia

Agency (philosophy · Capitalism · China · East Asia · Economics · Immigration · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Position (finance · Social science · Sociology · Transnationalism · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

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