Ghost Protocol: Development and Displacement in Global China
Carlos Rojas is Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies; Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies; and Arts of the Moving Image at Duke University. He is the author, editor, and translator of several books, most recently Homesickness: Culture, Contagion, and National Transformation in Modern China.
Ralph A. Litzinger is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University and the author of Other Chinas: The Yao and the Politics of National Belonging, also published by Duke University Press.
Carlos Rojas is Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies; Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies; and Arts of the Moving Image at Duke University. He is the author, editor, and translator of several books, most recently Homesickness: Culture, Contagion, and National Transformation in Modern China.
Ralph A. Litzinger is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University and the author of Other Chinas: The Yao and the Politics of National Belonging, also published by Duke University Press.
Regimes of Exclusion and Inclusion: Migrant Labor, Education, and Contested Futurities
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Published:August 2016
Ralph A. Litzinger, 2016. "Regimes of Exclusion and Inclusion: Migrant Labor, Education, and Contested Futurities", Ghost Protocol: Development and Displacement in Global China, Carlos Rojas, Ralph A. Litzinger
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This chapter examines three recent documentaries that focus on the children of migrant workers and their access to education. These documentaries include Jocelyn Ford’s Nowhere to Call Home, Lixin Fan’s Last Train Home, and Ji Dan’s When the Bough Breaks. These films dramatize conflicts between the parents’ objectives and their children’s desires, while raising the possibility that the filmmakers’ interests may diverge from those of the families they are documenting. In this way, the documentaries examine and problematize issues of education, futurity, and the ethics of observation and representation, as they coalesce around the figure of the...
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