"This book, based on extensive original research, explores the lives and the social, economic and emotional activities of Chinese migrant women during their migrations and mobilities in China, from China to Taiwan, from Taiwan to China and in between the two countries. It illustrates how women...

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1. Verfasser:	Zani, Beatrice (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	London ; New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2022
Schriftenreihe:	China policy series 65
Schlagworte:	Arbeitsmarkt Einwanderin China > Süd Taiwan Women immigrants / China / Social conditions Women immigrants / Taiwan / Social conditions China / Emigration and immigration / Social aspects Taiwan / Emigration and immigration / Social aspects Emigration and immigration / Social aspects Women immigrants / Social conditions China
Zusammenfassung:	"This book, based on extensive original research, explores the lives and the social, economic and emotional activities of Chinese migrant women during their migrations and mobilities in China, from China to Taiwan, from Taiwan to China and in between the two countries. It illustrates how women on the move experience social contempt, misrecognition and economic marginalization; how women migrants seek autonomy, economic independence, upward social mobility and modernity, but discover the Chinese inegalitarian social order and labour regimes which produce obstacles and impede their ambitions; and how old and new forms of subalternity are re-produced. Overall, the book emphasises what it feels like for the women migrants as they negotiate their way between subalternity and resistance, between subordinated labour and independent entrepreneurship, and between an inegalitarian labour market and new opportunities for business and commerce"--
Beschreibung:	xvii, 224 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:	9780367683832 9780367683849