Women Migrants in China

This book looks at the urban migration of rural women in contemporary China. Based on substantial ethnographic research with rural migrant women and returnees in both sending villages and receiving cities, the book explores the dynamics and vicissitudes of rural women's work and domesticity, their negotiation of gender relations and identities, their bargains with patriarchy and their transformations in the gendered migration process. It goes on to look at how patriarchy and global capital work hand in hand in exploiting women at work and domestic space, and how women's bargaining and resistances against such exploitations.

Aceasta carte analizeaza migratia urbana a femeilor din mediul rural din China contemporana. Pe baza unor cercetari etnografice substantiale cu femei si migranti din mediul rural, atat in satele de trimitere, cat si in orasele primitoare, cartea exploreaza dinamica si vicisitudinile muncii si domesticitatii femeilor din mediul rural, negocierea relatiilor si identitatilor de gen, negocierile lor cu patriarhatul si transformarile lor in proces de migratie de gen.