Discourse Identity And China S Internal Migration

Author : Dong Jie
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781847695109

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Discourse, Identity, and China's Internal Migration by Dong Jie Pdf

Rural-urban migration has been going on in China since the early 1980s, resulting in complicated sociolinguistic environments. Migrant workers are the backbone of China's fast growing economy, and yet little is known about their and their children’s identities – who they are, who they think they are, and who they are becoming. The study of their linguistic practice can reveal a lot about their identity construction as well as about transitions in Chinese society and the (re)formation of social structure at the macro level. In this book, Dong Jie presents a wide range of ethnographic data which are organised around a scalar framework. She argues that three scales – linguistic communication, metapragmatic discourse, and public discourse – interact in complex and multiple ways.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:748214514

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Discourse, Identity, and China's Internal Migration by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wei Wang
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Internal migrants
ISBN : 3034314361

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Media Representation of Migrant Workers in China by Wei Wang Pdf

Migrant workers and public media in China - Media discourse analysis from a sociolinguistic perspective - Newspaper representation of migrant workers in China's newspapers - White-collar migrant workers in public media - Construction of migrant workers' identities on a TV talk show - Media representation and practice in Chinese contexts

Author : Dong Jie
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847694195

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Discourse, Identity, and China's Internal Migration by Dong Jie Pdf

Migrant workers are the crucial to China's fast growing economy, yet little is known about their identities. This ethnographic study of the language use and identity construction of the children of internal migrants is innovative both in the context it studies and the scalar structure of discursive identity construction used to present its data.

Author : Robyn R. Iredale,Fei Guo
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783476640

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Handbook of Chinese Migration by Robyn R. Iredale,Fei Guo Pdf

The recent unprecedented scale of Chinese migration has had far-reaching consequences. Within China, many villages have been drained of their young and most able workers, cities have been swamped by the ‘floating population’, and many rural migrants have been unable to integrate into urban society. Internationally, the Chinese have become increasingly more mobile. This Handbook provides a unique collection of new and original research on internal and international Chinese migration and its effects on the sense of belonging of migrants.

Author : Hairong Yan
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822388654

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New Masters, New Servants by Hairong Yan Pdf

On March 9, 1996, tens of thousands of readers of a daily newspaper in China’s Anhui province saw a photograph of two young women at a local long-distance bus station. Dressed in fashionable new winter coats and carrying luggage printed with Latin letters, the women were returning home from their jobs in one of China’s large cities. As the photo caption indicated, the image represented the “transformation of migrant women”; the women’s “transformation” was signaled by their status as consumers. New Masters, New Servants is an ethnography of class dynamics and the subject formation of migrant domestic workers. Based on her interviews with young women who migrated from China’s Anhui province to the city of Beijing to engage in domestic service for middle-class families, as well as interviews with employers, job placement agencies, and government officials, Yan Hairong explores what these migrant workers mean to the families that hire them, to urban economies, to rural provinces such as Anhui, and to the Chinese state. Above all, Yan focuses on the domestic workers’ self-conceptions, desires, and struggles. Yan analyzes how the migrant women workers are subjected to, make sense of, and reflect on a range of state and neoliberal discourses about development, modernity, consumption, self-worth, quality, and individual and collective longing and struggle. She offers keen insight into the workers’ desire and efforts to achieve suzhi (quality) through self-improvement, the way workers are treated by their employers, and representations of migrant domestic workers on television and the Internet and in newspapers and magazines. In so doing, Yan demonstrates that contestations over the meanings of migrant workers raise broad questions about the nature of wage labor, market economy, sociality, and postsocialism in contemporary China.

Author : D. Davin
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0333717317

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Internal Migration in Contemporary China by D. Davin Pdf

As China moves from a society controlling all aspects of life, including population movement, to something nearer a market economy, migration has become a live issue. Tens of millions of rural migrants have entered China's cities, meeting discrimination similar to that experienced by economic migrants in the West. This book looks to the reasons why people leave certain areas, the lives of migrants and government policy towards them. It distinguishes different types of migration and looks particularly at marriage migration and the effects of migration on the lives of women.

Author : D. Davin
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0312217188

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Internal Migration in Contemporary China by D. Davin Pdf

As China moves from a society controlling all aspects of life, including population movement, to something nearer a market economy, migration has become a live issue. Tens of millions of rural migrants have entered China's cities, meeting discrimination similar to that experienced by economic migrants in the West. This book looks to the reasons why people leave certain areas, the lives of migrants and government policy towards them. It distinguishes different types of migration and looks particularly at marriage migration and the effects of migration on the lives of women.

Author : Pál Nyíri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 042945158X

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New Chinese Migrants in Europe by Pál Nyíri Pdf

First published in 1999, this book is a political enthnography of recent migration from the People's Republic of China into Europe. It argues that the very high mobility and intensive communications of Chinese migrants enable them to maintain a transnational community within which they easily shift countries and social roles - from student to trader to worker - if doing so is economically expedient. This makes them the natural beneficiaries and users of the Western globalization discourse, even more so that - contrary to culturalist explanations of global Chinese networks - anonymity, sovereign decision making and freedom from social pressures are at least as important in motivating migration as family connections. Yet their identity discourse expresses an authentic Chinese globalization. Chinese migrants see themselves not as local minorities but as a global majority attached to China by a deterritorialised nationalism. This nationalism is not only encouraged by China's official discourse but also supported by the economic dependence of new migrants on cultural capital built up in China, which makes them less reliant on resources in their countries of residence.

Author : Dr. Jan Blommaert,Dong Jie
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781788927147

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Ethnographic Fieldwork by Dr. Jan Blommaert,Dong Jie Pdf

Ethnographic fieldwork is something which is often presented as mysterious and inexplicable. How do we know certain things after having done fieldwork? Are we sure we know? And what exactly do we know? This book describes ethnographic fieldwork as the gradual accumulation of knowledge about something you don’t know much about. We start from ignorance and gradually move towards knowledge, on the basis of practices for which we have theoretical and methodological motivations. Jan Blommaert and Dong Jie draw on their own experiences as fieldworkers in explaining the complexities of ethnographic fieldwork as a knowledge trajectory. They do so in an easily accessible way that makes these complexities easier to understand and to handle before, during and after fieldwork. The 2nd edition of this bestselling book updates the 1st edition and includes a new postscript on ethnography in an online world.

Author : Jie Dong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317630012

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The Sociolinguistics of Voice in Globalising China by Jie Dong Pdf

This book deploys and develops the notion of voice in an investigation of China’s rapidly reshuffling society. The book is structured around two aspects of the voicing process in contemporary China: (1) stratification of voice, which addresses the stabilizing condition of voice; and (2) restratification of voice that draws attention to the dynamics of the system of which the order is reshuffling and not yet apparent. This structure allows us to unveil the hidden forces played out in the voice making process and to stratifying and re-stratifying process of contemporary Chinese society in which some people are making themselves heard whereas others are losing voice. Despite its importance and usefulness, voice has been under theorized in recent decades. The ambitions of this book therefore are to invest serious efforts in developing the notion and to position it in the center of the theoretical toolkits available to students and scholars within and outside sociolinguistics.

Author : Linda Tsung,Wei Wang
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268112

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Contemporary Chinese Discourse and Social Practice in China by Linda Tsung,Wei Wang Pdf

Significant socio-political changes in China have had great impact on Chinese discourse. Changes to the discourse have become an increasing focus of scholarship. This book examines contemporary Chinese discourse and social practice in China with a focus on the role that language plays in the on-going transformation of Chinese society. With a view to producing new insights into the interdependence between discourse and social practice, this volume explores how discourse has been changing in a context-dependent way; how social practice can lead to shifts in the use of discourse; and how identities and attitudes are constructed through language use. Largely based on empirical studies, this book indicates that Chinese discourse has not only been an integral part of social change, but also Chinese discourse itself is changing, reflecting ideologies, values, attitudes, identities and social practice. The book is a great resource for scholars in diverse disciplinary studies including linguistics, communication, education, media and political studies concerning contemporary China.

Author : Lisong Liu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317446255

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Chinese Student Migration and Selective Citizenship by Lisong Liu Pdf

Since China began its open-door and reform policies in 1978, more than three million Chinese students have migrated to study abroad, and the United States has been their top destination. The recent surge of students following this pattern, along with the rising tide of Chinese middle- and upper-classes' emigration out of China, have aroused wide public and scholarly attention in both China and the US. This book examines the four waves of Chinese student migration to the US since the late 1970s, showing how they were shaped by the profound changes in both nations and by US-China relations. It discusses how student migrants with high socioeconomic status transformed Chinese American communities and challenged American immigration laws and race relations. The book suggests that the rise of China has not negated the deeply rooted "American dream" that has been constantly reinvented in contemporary China. It also addresses the theme of "selective citizenship" – a way in which migrants seek to claim their autonomy - proposing that this notion captures the selective nature on both ends of the negotiations between nation-states and migrants. It cautions against a universal or idealized "dual citizenship" model, which has often been celebrated as a reflection of eroding national boundaries under globalization. This book draws on a wide variety of sources in Chinese and English, as well as extensive fieldwork in both China and the US, and its historical perspective sheds new light on contemporary Chinese student migration and post-1965 Chinese American community. Bridging the gap between Asian and Asian American studies, the book also integrates the studies of migration, education, and international relations. Therefore, it will be of interest to students of these fields, as well as Chinese history and Asian American history more generally.

Author : Catherine Dauvergne
Publisher : University of British Columbia Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Australians
ISBN : UOM:39015060640888

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Humanitarianism, Identity, and Nation by Catherine Dauvergne Pdf

Refugees are on the move around the globe. Prosperous nations are rapidly adjusting their laws to crack down on the so-called "undeserving." Australia and Canada have each sought international reputations as humanitarian do-gooders, especially in the area of refugee admissions. Humanitarianism, Identity, and Nation traces the connections between the nation-building tradition of immigration and the challenge of admitting people who do not reflect the national interest of the twenty-first century. Catherine Dauvergne argues that in the absence of the justice standard for admitting newcomers, liberal nations instead share a humanitarian consensus about letting in needy outsiders. This consensus constrains and shapes migration law and policy. In a detailed consideration of how refugees and others in need are admitted to Australia and Canada, she links humanitarianism and national identity to explain the current shape of the law. If the problems of immigration policy were all about economics, future directions would be easy to map. If rights could trump sovereignty, refugee admission would be straightforward. But migration politics has never been simple. Humanitarianism, Identity, and Nation is a welcome antidote to economic critiques of immigration, and a thoughtful contribution to rights talk. It is a must-read for everyone interested in transforming migration laws to meet the needs of the twenty-first century.

Author : Iom International Organization For Migration
Publisher : Academic Foundation
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Asia
ISBN : 817188573X

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Migration, Development and Poverty Reduction in Asia by Iom International Organization For Migration Pdf