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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 (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 (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...
View articletitled, The <span class="search-highlight">Worker</span>-Poet as the Ethnographic Partner: Documenting the Emotional Pain of Rural Migrant Women
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 253–279.
Published: 01 February 2016
...Pei-Chia Lan This article compares Taiwan's guest worker program and Japan's Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) program to examine how intimate labor and affective labor are culturally defined and institutionally regulated in different ways. Facing the similar problems of population aging...
View articletitled, Deferential Surrogates and Professional Others: Recruitment and Training of Migrant Care <span class="search-highlight">Workers</span> in Taiwan and Japan
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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 (2024) 32 (4): 797–820.
Published: 01 November 2024
... urban vocational education system for training as future workers. As a national project attempting to (re)invent educated, skilled labor subjects to serve the state goal of industrial upgrading, vocational education is geared toward entrance into the labor market, producing valuable “marketable subjects...
View articletitled, Clashing Gender in the Age of Transnational Infrastructural Capitalism: The Vocational Education and Subject Making of China's Future <span class="search-highlight">Workers</span>
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positions (2024) 32 (4): 847–872.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Qian Gong; Huan Wu Abstract Research on transnational migration from China since the 1990s has focused on stories about highly educated, skilled migrants. Little research has been done about the transnational migration of skilled trade workers who moved from China to Western countries. This article...
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View articletitled, Continuity and Disjuncture: The Translocal-Transnational Experiences of Chinese Skilled Trade <span class="search-highlight">Workers</span> in Western Australia
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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...
View articletitled, Mockumenting Migrant <span class="search-highlight">Workers</span>: The Inter-Asian Hinterland of Eric Khoo’s No Day Off and My Magic
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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...
View articletitled, A Middle-Class Misidentification: Self-Identification in the Autobiographical Poetry of Chinese Female Peasant <span class="search-highlight">Workers</span>
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 429–453.
Published: 01 August 2022
...—the worst effects of capital accumulation and the alienation of labor, under which the creation of everyday spaces for labor reproduction provided the key to constructing a new type of community for social transformation among migrant workers. Whereas the state and capital attempt to “pulverize” new...
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View articletitled, The Production of Everyday Space for <span class="search-highlight">Workers</span>: The New Village Movement in China, 1919–1936
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 507–521.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Wang
Dezhi; Chun Chun Ting; Max Bohnenkamp [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Ting: Could you briefly introduce yourself and the organization Migrant Workers Home? 1 Wang: I'm Wang Dezhi...
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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...
View articletitled, The “Unlikely Writers” from Picun: Reinventing Literature and Politics at the Migrant <span class="search-highlight">Workers</span> Home
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in Continuity and Disjuncture: The Translocal-Transnational Experiences of Chinese Skilled Trade Workers in Western Australia
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 November 2024
Figure 1 Chinese skilled trade workers at a gathering to celebrate the birth of a worker's granddaughter, August 7, 2016. Photograph by the authors.
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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
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Figure 2 Square dance at Migrant Workers Home, June 2019. Photograph by Jiahe Mei.
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 303–331.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Figure 2 Migrant Workers Home logo. ...
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positions (2015) 23 (3): 411–435.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Pun Ngai; Anita Koo The fact that in 2010 eighteen young workers attempted suicide at Foxconn production facilities in China has attracted worldwide attention. Drawing on research conducted in Foxconn factories in three regions of China—the Pearl River Delta, the Yangtze River Delta, and West China...
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 439–462.
Published: 01 May 2011
.... Suzuki will trace the history of this fantasy production back to the 1970s when the Japanese first began to construct the workers in a particular way. Subsequently, these images became widely circulated among the transnational public in which most eager consumers of these representations...
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