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positions (2023) 31 (2): 303–331.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., exploitation, alienation. To counter the pressures of this life, he wrote poetry. In 2016 he settled in Picun, a village on the outskirts of Beijing made famous by an NGO called the Migrant Workers Home. The Home aims to advance migrant workers’ social identification through cultural education. To this end...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 357–378.
Published: 01 May 2023
... theater scene introduced him to the labor NGO and community cultural center Migrant Workers Home in the urban village Picun in Beijing. Sakurai's collaborators suggested that the suburban village-in-the-city, populated by rural migrant workers, would be a performance venue that fit the Japanese director's...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 333–355.
Published: 01 May 2023
... the working-class writing subject and fellow workers a sense of dignity and collective identity. Both the Picun writers and the migrant worker writers in general can be considered “unlikely writers.” The term captures their marginality in the cultural field, as well as the struggle to negotiate...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 403–429.
Published: 01 May 2023
... production and consumption. We are united by both an agnostic attitude about the reliability of ethnography, and a commitment to producing it. Taking a cue from Farquhar, this article is a cultural and sociological reading of Zheng's Stories of Migrant Women Workers . My approach to Zheng's poems...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 451–471.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Zhang Huiyu; Federico Picerni Abstract Over the past few years, China's cultural landscape has seen the emergence of several authors from among its migrant laborers, or “new workers.” Fan Yusu and Xu Lizhi are the most representative. Their literary production, which draws on their personal...
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positions 11306808.
Published: 07 August 2024
... reach of global discourses like intensive mothering into China's migrant-worker population. Intensive mothering has long been learned as the dominant culture of motherhood in North America. Along with other products and ideas, this ideology of intensive mothering is imported to China's new generation...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 257–279.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., and Eviction: Migrant Worker Literature and Media Practices in Contemporary China” held at the University of Chicago Center in Beijing in June 2019. The workshop brought together scholars and activists to discuss the ways in which migrant workers cope with dislocation and precarity through cultural practices...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 455–477.
Published: 01 August 2022
... A insists, migrants contribute to the city's labor, history, and culture. An oppositional image of the city is presented in which the migrant worker is present, seen, and valued. Second, the NGOs critique the lack of humanistic and social consideration behind the world-city project, revealing how...
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 253–279.
Published: 01 February 2016
... shows that cultural values and social practices associated with care, such as familism and gendered division of care work, are subject to transformation under the influence of state intervention and transnational outsourcing. Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 care work migrant worker...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 281–301.
Published: 01 May 2023
... disillusionment with the socialist working-class culture to inform attempts to revive its legacies. The proliferation of mass literacy and the discourse of socialist egalitarianism has theoretically prepared the average migrant worker with the basic language to make sense of the value of their own labor...
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positions (2019) 27 (2): 297–332.
Published: 01 May 2019
... and Southeast Asian minorities who are presumed by official multiracialist and Asian values rhetoric to locate their “uncontaminated” cultural heritage in these other countries. As two simultaneously gendered and racialized figures embodying these three relations, the female Indonesian domestic worker...
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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 (2011) 19 (2): 551–579.
Published: 01 May 2011
... that informs Anak both in its function of reinforcing economic production and of creating a visual economy for symbolic reproduction under global capitalism. This cinematic mediation, I argue, is also a cultural logic of the feminization of migrant...
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positions 11306820.
Published: 07 August 2024
... workers constantly negotiate their working-­class and cultural identities during their two successive moves. These negotiations need to be understood within the context of their transitions from rural migrant subjectivity to postsocialist worker subjectivity in China and to transnational migrant identity...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 507–521.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., a cofounder of the Beijing Migrant Workers Home and creator of Tongxin Mutual-Aid Social Enterprise [a chain of secondhand clothing stores—Trans.]. We serve the needs of the “new workers” who have come from the villages to find jobs in the cities with programs in areas such as culture, education, and civil...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 431–450.
Published: 01 May 2023
... (Migrant Workers Home), a social enterprise founded and managed by a group of rural migrant activists. Since its inception in 2003, the Home has engaged in cultural activities and political advocacy through music, theater productions, literary writings, and live performances. It has become the most...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 523–527.
Published: 01 May 2023
.... Ting is currently working on a manuscript on spatial politics and social movements in postcolonial Hong Kong. She also writes on Hong Kong literature and culture; Sinophone documentaries and films; and migrant workers’ literary production in contemporary China. Maghiel van Crevel is professor...
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 219–243.
Published: 01 May 2022
... to physical geography and ethno-cultural composition of Asia's societies divided by artificially drawn and porous borders, faced with demographic challenges and the political economy of global supply and care chains—and migrants’ ability to circumvent and navigate rigid and formal regulatory frameworks (Piper...
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positions (2019) 27 (4): 773–798.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Yun Li; Rong Rong Through the autobiographical poetry of contemporary Chinese female peasant workers, this article studies how Chinese migrant workers are dis-identified by the identifying hukou system and thus become bodies of non-identity drifting in cities. Driven by the urban desire intrigued...
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positions (2009) 17 (3): 617–642.
Published: 01 August 2009
... between place, suzhi (quality), and the migrant body is made to appear logical and commonsensical. I consider a common discursive practice of branding the baomu (maid), namely identifying the domestic worker and comments on the service provided by the domestic worker according to her place of origin (e.g...