Marital Power in Inter-<i>Hukou</i> Families in China: An Intersectionality Approach

Lui, Lake

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“…Moreover, because hukou status is inherited from parents, hukou intermarriage has implications for the intergenerational transmission of social status (Han, Li, & Zhao, 2015). Despite its potential importance for stratification and inequality, scholars have only recently begun to study hukou intermarriage (Lui, 2016; Lui, 2017a; Lui, 2017b; Han et al, 2015; Qian & Qian, 2017; Xing & Nie, 2010). One reason for this may be that, given its presumed rarity, hukou intermarriage was assumed to be ignorable (Chan, 2009; Lu, 2003; Zhang, Zhu, & Nyland, 2014).…”

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Hukou intermarriage and social exclusion in China

Wang

Schwartz

2018

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

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is a key marker of status in contemporary China. Urban status confers large economic benefits such as preferential access to good schools, prestigious occupations, and state-subsidized welfare benefits. As such, trends in intermarriage convey important but underappreciated information about social mobility in China. This article examines trends in intermarriage between 1958 and 2008. We find that intermarriage is surprisingly common and has grown steadily since 1985. Hypotheses derived from Western contexts do little to explain this trend. Increased education, economic inequality, and availability each fail to explain trends as predicted in prior work. A common hypothesis is that increased inequality should reduce intermarriage by making it more costly to "marry down." We find the opposite-increasing inequality is associated with increasing intermarriage, particularly between urban men and rural women, which is consistent with the hypothesis that the costs of marrying down may be outweighed by the incentives to marry up in this context. Our results also suggest conversion plays a key role in increased intermarriage. These findings highlight the uniqueness of the Chinese context and suggest that standard hypotheses about assortative mating may not be applicable in contexts with strong state-controlled social boundaries.

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Hukou intermarriage and social exclusion in China

Wang

Schwartz

2018

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

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“…Migrant workers must adapt to changing jobs and their new urban environments (Zhou and Yang, 2014). In terms of institutional environment, China's household registration system (hukou), which assigns rural or urban status to citizens, is a stratifying tool that shapes people's social rights (Lui, 2017). Under the restrictions of the hukou system, migrant workers cannot obtain the same basic public services as urban residents, including social security, medical services, and children's education (Chan and Buckingham, 2008).…”

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The Static and Dynamic Effects of Capital Factors on the Social Adaptation of Chinese Migrant Workers

Shen

Xue

Chen

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International Migration

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The large influx of migrant workers from rural to urban areas indicates that their social adaptation is an important issue in understanding China's urbanization. This article uses Coleman's capital theory to analyse data from the 2012 and 2014 China Labour Force Dynamic Survey (CLDS), conducting a multiple linear regression model to study migrants’ economic, living and cultural adaptations. The results are determined through analysis of the static and dynamic effects of different capital factors. The static analysis results show that social adaptation can be improved by increasing the accumulation of various types of capital, while the dynamic analysis results show that social adaptation is a dynamic process. Optimizing the allocation of the corresponding capital elements can speed up migrant workers’ social adaptation. Therefore, the government must prioritize measures to improve and optimize migrant workers’ capital factors and promote their social adaptation, which will in turn accelerate urbanization in China.

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“…Nevertheless, we also controlled for one’s hukou (household registration) origin, using the hukou status of the respondents’ parents distinguishing between rural (83%) and urban types, which predates the event of remarriage and is unlikely to change over time. In China, hukou origin plays a prominent role in determining one’s family values (Hu, 2016a) and marital mobility (Lui, 2017). Irrespective of one’s location of residence in rural or urban areas, hukou origin is a major cause of segregation in the marriage market in contemporary China (Hu, 2016b; Lui, 2017).…”

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Family Relations and Remarriage Postdivorce and Postwidowhood in China

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2017

Journal of Family Issues

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Analyzing event history data from the 2010 China Family Panel Studies and 13 qualitative interviews, we examine the complex and gendered relationship between family relations and remarriage in China. Distinct roles are played by the presence of preschool , school-age and adult children in configuring the remarriage of women and men after divorce and after widowhood. The remarriage of widows but not divorcées is positively associated with the presence of parents and siblings respectively. Remarriage is more likely in the presence of large extended families. Whereas single and remarried divorcé(e)s equally provide care to their children, such care provision is less likely among remarried than single widow(er)s. Compared with their single counterparts, remarried divorcé(e)s and particularly widow(er)s are less likely to receive care from their children. We underline the importance of considering the "linked lives" of family members and comparing distinct life-course circumstances in the study of remarriage. We demonstrate that remarriage is far from an "individualized" institution, and that the state's privatization of marriage seems to reinforce the "familialization" of remarriage practices in China.

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Marital Power in Inter-Hukou Families in China: An Intersectionality Approach

Cited by 16 publications

References 33 publications

Hukou intermarriage and social exclusion in China

Hukou intermarriage and social exclusion in China

The Static and Dynamic Effects of Capital Factors on the Social Adaptation of Chinese Migrant Workers

Family Relations and Remarriage Postdivorce and Postwidowhood in China

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