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positions (2016) 24 (3): 669–692.
Published: 01 August 2016
...EuyRyung Jun In this article, the author discusses how South Korean migrant advocacy that has emerged since the mid-1990s relied on mobilizing the moral responsibility of local civil society and the state on the dehumanizing conditions of foreign workers—most of whom are from China, Southeast Asia...
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positions (2018) 26 (3): 516–546.
Published: 01 August 2018
... migrants in Northeast China, whose labor is no longer demanded in Korea’s neoliberal restructuring processes and who try their luck in China’s uncertain but fast-growing economy. In Seotap, a Korean migrant enclave in Shenyang, South Korean sojourners, who mostly engage in the unstable service sector, have...
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positions (2019) 27 (2): 297–332.
Published: 01 May 2019
... imprint, by self-reflexively implicating the voyeuristic penetration of media surveillance into the lives of the socially marginal to comment on desensitized apathy toward the abuse of migrant workers and the disparities of inter-Asian labor migration in Singapore. References Acharya Amitav...
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 301–321.
Published: 01 May 2022
... ) and the migration-development nexus (Chung, Kim, and Piper 2016 ). The primary theme has been related to family relations in host countries, mainly the multimarginalized status of marriage migrants and foreign brides and their social adaptation to (or integration into) families-in-law in destination countries...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 549–570.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Minhua Ling Abstract China's escalated infrastructural building and real estate development have gradually erased urban villages and reduced affordable living space for rural-to-urban migrants. This article showcases the emerging practice of container housing among low-income migrants, based...
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 41–66.
Published: 01 February 2023
... the scenes, among migrant workers and not Singaporean citizens, exacerbated by crowded worker housing. The outbreak revealed the extent to which migrants existed in a bureaucratic shadow, and public reaction to it revealed the anxieties that the city-state's residents felt about their own vulnerability...
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 179–203.
Published: 01 February 2016
... GIs as powerful agents and of migrant club hostesses as trafficked victims, the author highlights their shared conditions of “indentured mobility” as constrained subjects bound by migrant labor contracts in their quest for mobility. Revisiting the persisting power asymmetry between US GIs and migrant...
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 253–279.
Published: 01 February 2016
... and care deficit, Taiwan and Japan have nevertheless adopted divergent approaches to recruiting and training migrant care workers (“deferential surrogates” vs. “professional others”). This comparison demonstrates national diversity in the intersecting formation of care regime and migration regime. It also...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 333–355.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Chun Chun Ting Abstract In response to Sun Wanning's (2014) critique that individual desire for recognition has limited the political potential of migrant worker literature, this article looks to the Picun Literature Group at the Migrant Workers Home to examine the dynamic between the collective...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 403–429.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Wanning Sun Abstract Many migrant workers in China are widely reported to experience difficulty in finding a conjugal partner or maintaining conjugal intimacy. Despite this widely shared perception, firsthand data about the love lives of migrant workers are hard to access. Yet, to have...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 379–402.
Published: 01 May 2023
... their subjectivity? In this article, the labor trajectory of Zuo Mei, a young migrant woman, is traced over six and a half years. The author relates Zuo's experience to what Mario Tronti calls the “social factory,” where the extraction of surplus occurs not just on the factory floor but also through social relations...
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in Barriers Faced by Returning Migrant Children in Vietnam: The Case of the Mekong Delta Region
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 1 Returning migrant children with temporary registration in the Vị Thắng commune. Unit: person. Source Created by the author with data from UBND xã Vị Thắng 2017 .
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Published: 01 May 2023
Figure 1 Photo of Xiao Hai in 2017, in the Migrant Workers Home library/reading room, holding a copy of Haizi's collected works. His hat says “Work hard play hard.” The white front cover of Howl in the Factory , his own collection of poetry, published in the unofficial Picun series, is visible
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in Guest Editor's Introduction: Cultures of Labor and the Labor of Culture
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 May 2023
Figure 1 Students painting the wall outside Migrant Workers Home, June 2019. Photograph by the author.
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in Guest Editor's Introduction: Cultures of Labor and the Labor of Culture
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 May 2023
Figure 2 Square dance at Migrant Workers Home, June 2019. Photograph by Jiahe Mei.
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positions (2015) 23 (3): 411–435.
Published: 01 August 2015
... working class, the majority of whom are young migrant laborers. The authors claim that in China the state played a significant role in accelerating global capital accumulation. The authors hope to make sense of the way that a state-capital alliance is shaping a new form of labor recruitment and labor use...
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 277–300.
Published: 01 May 2022
..., often with no contact, and how multiple modes of waiting have become a distinctive part of children’s lives within transnational migrant communities. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 migration child-centered rural childhoods temporality...
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positions (2019) 27 (3): 469–497.
Published: 01 August 2019
... life. However, there are consequences for those who move, in terms of belonging and how they imagine their life projects. This article extends the established scholarship on mobility out of China by comparing the rhetorical construction of mobility with the experiences of Chinese migrants in Japan...
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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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