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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): 303–331.
Published: 01 May 2023
... writing say? What other actors and factors shape his persona? What can we learn from all this about the nexus of precarious labor and cultural production? The stories of Picun, Xiao Hai, and migrant worker literature subvert simple oppositions of grassroots versus state discourse and unofficial versus...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 451–471.
Published: 01 May 2023
.... As a result, the mainstream media's attention was caught by the Picun Literature Group, based outside Beijing's Fifth Ring Road. The Group is made up of rural-urban migrant workers with a fondness for literature who meet with volunteers from the city on weekends to share their writing and discuss literature...
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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...
FIGURES
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 357–378.
Published: 01 May 2023
... Community Theater .” Paper presented at the workshop “Cultures of Labor, Inequality and Eviction: Migrant Workers’ Literature and Media Practices in Contemporary China,” University of Chicago Center in Beijing , June 22 . Zhou Zan 周瓒 , and Sun 恒孙 Heng . (2010) 2016 . “ Pinkun zhi ge ” 贫困之歌...
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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 (2023) 31 (2): 403–429.
Published: 01 May 2023
...: Nügongji; Bei guding zai kazuo shang de qingchun ” 郑小琼：女工记；被固定在卡座上的青春 (“Zheng Xiaoqiong: Stories of Migrant Women Workers”). Wenxue Bao 文学报 ( Literature Gazette ), May 16 . http://wxs.hi2net.com/home/news_read.asp?NewsID=75777 . Karp Ivan . 1986 . “ Agency and Social Theory: A Review...
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 219–243.
Published: 01 May 2022
... primary groups of left-behind children of migrant parents, educational migrants, child labor migrants, and adoptees. This special issue advanced the literature by looking at migration from the point of view of children including “young people.” Suggesting the continued need to rectify the absence...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 431–450.
Published: 01 May 2023
... : 12 – 15 . van Crevel Maghiel . 2017 . “ The Cultural Translation of Battlers Poetry (Dagong shige) .” Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 14 , no. 2 : 245 – 86 . van Crevel Maghiel . 2019 . “ Debts: Coming to Terms with Migrant Worker Poetry .” Chinese Literature Today...
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positions (2015) 23 (3): 411–435.
Published: 01 August 2015
... attempted
to commit suicide, and fourteen had died. All were between seventeen and
twenty-five years old. Like tens of thousands of their peers, these workers
belonged to the new generation of migrant workers in China. This new...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 455–477.
Published: 01 August 2022
... to Migrant Worker NGOs in China .” Journal of Contemporary China 26 , no. 8 : 915 – 30 . Jessop Bob . 2002 . “ Globalization and the National State .” In Paradigm Lost: State Theory Reconsidered , edited by Aronowitz Stanley and Bratsis Peter , 185 – 220 . Minneapolis...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 507–521.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of the Migrant Workers Home is: “Without our own culture, we have no history. Without our own history, we have no future.” Isn't the implication that, in the current mainstream culture, there's really no way to create a shared space for workers to participate equally? W: Well, for example...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 281–301.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Yurou Zhong Abstract Since its inception in 2002, the Beijing New Worker Band has become a representative art group formed by and dedicated to migrant workers. Changing its name three times in twenty years, the band has demonstrated a strong capacity to adapt to uncertain political tides...
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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 (2016) 24 (3): 669–692.
Published: 01 August 2016
... workers
and their local supporters became an inherently indispensable component
of migrant rights.
Overall, I situate this article in the literature that rethinks human rights
from the perspective of power. For example, when...
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 277–300.
Published: 01 May 2022
.... This article first summarizes the context of transnational migration in Indonesia, before providing an overview of the literature related to children left behind by their migrant parents, and recent scholarship on the temporalities of migration. The analysis of stay-behind children's lived experiences draws...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 485–506.
Published: 01 May 2023
... working in Picun. Many songs from our new album, Start Anew ( Cong tou yue 从头越), are adapted from poems written by members of the Picun Literature Group. I believe that we should keep doing this kind of work. As for the village songs, we've just started. Another point is that some migrant workers...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 479–499.
Published: 01 August 2022
... toward urbanization (Chuang 2015 ; Friedman 2018 ). The existing anthropological literature on urbanization and rural/urban dynamics in contemporary China has largely focused on the migration and displacement of the nation's 250 million rural migrant workers, the so-called floating population who...
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 411–427.
Published: 01 August 2022
... , no. 36 . https://apjjf.org/-Jenny-Chan/4372 . Chan Jenny , and Selden Mark . 2014 . “ China's Rural Migrant Workers, the State, and Labor Politics .” Critical Asian Studies 46 , no. 4 : 599 – 620 . Chan Kam Wing . 2010 . “ The Chinese Household Registration System...
Journal Article
positions (2016) 24 (1): 45–69.
Published: 01 February 2016
... such industries. For exam-
ple, one economic sector can inadvertently fuel another, providing addi-
tional labor or indirectly boosting profits, as in the case of migrant domestic
workers who casually participate in the entertainment or sex industry...
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