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positions (2023) 31 (2): 403–429.
Published: 01 May 2023
... the intimate lives of one hundred women factory workers in China's Pearl River delta. Their experiences are documented—in poetic form—in Stories of Migrant Women written by China's best known rural migrant poet Zhang Xiaoqiong. The article approaches Zheng the poet as a de facto social science researcher...
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 321–349.
Published: 01 May 2010
.... Status shame for the wife-in-monogamy becomes reconstituted into stigmatic sex in new emergent social subjects and practices, such as mistresses and live-in migrant domestic maids, sex workers and predatory single urban professional women, adulterous women and men, promiscuous sex, commercial sex...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 257–279.
Published: 01 May 2023
... in getting close to the emotional aspects of subaltern experiences, Wanning Sun's article focuses on Stories of Migrant Women Workers (2012) by the poet Zheng Xiaoqiong, a collection of one hundred poems in which Zheng depicts individual women she met among her fellow migrant workers in Guangdong, inside...
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positions (2009) 17 (3): 617–642.
Published: 01 August 2009
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it invisible.”3 Furthermore, it functions as a technology of the self through
which, in order not to fall into “abjecthood,” migrant women engage in
“self-development” of a kind that further contributes to the production of
surplus value.4...
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 45–69.
Published: 01 February 2016
...Nicole Constable This article explores, ethnographically and critically, migrant women's contributions to three intersecting sectors of “intimate industries” in Asia: domestic work, sex tourism, and adoption. These three sectors are normally understood as separate and distinct, and in the cases...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 431–450.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Yang Zhan Abstract This article conceptualizes storytelling as epistemic labor that is critical to the everyday meaning-making and future-making of Chinese rural migrants. Compared to stories told by scholars and migrants turned writers and artists, those told by migrants in a quotidian setting...
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 179–203.
Published: 01 February 2016
....
Situating the intimate labor of migrant hostesses in the sociohistorical
context of US military camp towns in South Korea, I highlight the shared
condition of “indentured mobility,”3 which brings together US GIs and Fili-
pina migrant women...
Journal Article
positions (2023) 31 (2): 485–506.
Published: 01 May 2023
... by the village secretary, as well as to the women who get up at four in the morning to work in the fields and the men who become migrant workers to support their families. Every line in the lyrics shows how people truly feel about the village and themselves. This is the chorus of Shichengzi's village song...
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 551–579.
Published: 01 May 2011
... Aguilar: “The
enlistment of migrant labor has been integral to the history of capitalist devel-
opment, with free trade, deregulation, and neoliberalism as globalization’s
guideposts, the diasporic flow of migrant women from peripheral formations...
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positions (2016) 24 (3): 669–692.
Published: 01 August 2016
... to the situation Korean migrants faced overseas maxi-
mizes the shame of Korea as a fledgling host, once a source of migrants.
Not surprisingly, this need to care for its own migrants was actively linked
with the issue of comfort women. For example...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 333–355.
Published: 01 May 2023
... as “overage youth,” the term “ daling qingnian ” 大龄青年 refers almost exclusively to unmarried men/women who are considered past their prime. Given the gender imbalance in China's population structure, it is so difficult for male migrant workers to find a wife that this has been recognized as a collective...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 523–527.
Published: 01 May 2023
... in Henan in 2017. She has published extensively online and was nominated “Internet Queen” by the website Renjian 人间 ( The Livings ) in 2016. Li Ruo's short stories and poems, which mostly deal with rural themes, have been collected in an anthology published by Migrant Workers Home titled Buguniao de...
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 71–96.
Published: 01 February 2016
... and organized at the local level in Vietnamese
marriage migrants’ communities of origin. The study focuses on marriages
between Vietnamese women and Asian men, particularly men from Tai-
wan, South Korea, and China. First, it documents how the local...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 303–331.
Published: 01 May 2023
...”传播为例 (“Imagination and Breakthrough in New Workers’ ‘Alternative Media’ in the Age of the Web: The Case of the ‘Migrant Workers Home’ ”). Changjiang wenyi pinglun 2018 , no. 4 : 62 – 68 . Long Ge 龙哥 . 2020 . “ ‘Women 2s: Laodong jiaoliu shichang’ juping: laodong zhende guangrong ma...
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 439–462.
Published: 01 May 2011
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ernment. As his early behavior suggests, Alvin originally has little interest
in women migrant workers’ welfare despite his work at the OWWA. Later,
he changes his mind and declares to Cynthia that he is now “with” various
NGOs for the sake of women...
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 245–275.
Published: 01 May 2022
... of, the United States (Gonzales 2011 ; Gonzales and Chavez 2012 ). In Hong Kong, children born to Indonesian and Filipino women labor migrant workers have been described by Constable ( 2014 ) as being “born out of place,” owing to the Hong Kong state's view of temporary labor migrants as strictly workers...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 451–471.
Published: 01 May 2023
... began to attract widespread attention between the late 1980s and early 1990s as it became the most significant literary phenomenon in Guangdong thanks to the publication of “Wo shi dagongzai” 我是打工仔 (“I Am a Migrant Worker”), a short story by Zhang Weimin 张伟民, in Shenzhen's major literary journal...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 479–499.
Published: 01 August 2022
... the dagongmei , the young women who expend their labor capacities in urban factories before their bodies wear down (Yan 2008 ; Pun 2005 ). They then return to their families and loved ones in the countryside to bear children, who become the next generation of migrant laborers. A main line of thought within...
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 277–300.
Published: 01 May 2022
... figures (ILO 2013). Prior to the 1970s, overseas Indonesian migrants were mostly men, leaving to work in palm oil plantations in Malaysia. Increasingly there has been a feminization of transnational migration, and women now make up 76 percent of overseas migrants, working as domestic servants in Saudi...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 379–402.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., realistic options are actually available to migrant men and women?” Vigilant about the leftist preoccupation with the history of class struggle, Jacques Rancière ( 2005 : 80, 82) warns about the danger of reducing the proletariat to “someone who has only one thing to do —to make the revolution” while...
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