New Theoretical Dialogues on Migration in China

This book emerges from the observation that the current literatures on migration in China are constrained by a series of shortfalls. It will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of Sociology, Politics, Human Geography, Social Work, and Urban Studies.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Migrant worker museums in China: public cultures of migrant labour in state and grassroots initiatives 3. Reconstituting the neoliberal subjectivity of migrants: Christian theo-ethics and migrant workers in Shenzhen, China 4. Agency and mobility in the context of development-induced migration: the case of Three Gorges out-migrants 5. Chinese 'snowbirds' in tropical Sanya: retirement migration and the production of translocal families 6. Circumstantial migration: how Gambian journeys to China enrich migration theory 7. Multiple precarity and intimate family life among African-Chinese families in Guangzhou 8. Dwelling-in-Travelling: Western expats and the making of temporary home in Guangzhou, China 9. Intellectual migration: considering China

About the author

Hong Zhu is Distinguished Professor and Director of South China Centre for Human Geography and Urban Development at Guangzhou University and Guangdong Provincial Research Institute of Urban and Migration, China. He is a leading Social and Cultural Geographer in China and serves as the Vice-Chair of Cultural Geography Commission, Chinese Geographical Society.
Junxi Qian is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China. His current research interests include religion, indigenous development, cultural economic geography and urban theory of China.

Summary

This book emerges from the observation that the current literatures on migration in China are constrained by a series of shortfalls. It will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of Sociology, Politics, Human Geography, Social Work, and Urban Studies.

Product details

• Assisted by: Junxi Qian (Editor), Hong Zhu (Editor), Zhu Hong (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.08.2024
• EAN: 9781032427379
• ISBN: 978-1-032-42737-9
• No. of pages: 174
• Weight: 453 g
• Series: Research in Ethnic and Migration Studies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; China, Ethnic Studies, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Politics & government, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Politics and government, Sociology: work & labour, Human Geography, Urban communities, Sociology: work and labour, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies