Young Women Rural Migrant Workers in China’s West: Benefits of Schooling?

Seeberg, Vilma; Luo, Shujuan

doi:10.1007/s11516-017-0026-1

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“…The research suggests that an important consequence of sustained large-scale migration has been an erosion of regional identity and the dissolution of a sense of local belonging for many young women who have migrated. While women acquire experience and knowledge as a consequence of migration that might be thought likely to empower them (Jacka, 2006;Jin, 2010;Seeberg & Luo, 2017;Shen, 2016;Sun, 2016), their role in their patrilocal village, being excluded from active participation in village governance, regresses to that of 'the person inside my home. '…”

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Transitions and Conflicts: Reexamining Impacts of Migration on Young Women’s Status and Gender Practice in Rural Shanxi

Yang

Ren

2020

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<p>This article explores impacts of migration on young women’s status and gender practice in rural northern China. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a village in Shanxi Province, it suggests that rural-urban migration has served partially to reconstruct the traditional gender-based roles and norms in migration families. This reconstructive force arises mainly from the changes of the patrilocal residence pattern and rural women’s acquisition of subjectivity during the course of migration. However, after migrant women return to their home villages, they usually reassume their roles as care providers and homemakers, which is vividly expressed by a phrase referring to one’s wife as ‘the person inside my home’ (<em>wo jiali de</em>). Meanwhile, although migrant women’s capacity and confidence have greatly increased consequent upon working out of the countryside, their participation in village governance and in the public sphere has been decreasing. Further examination suggests that the reinforcement of gender inequality and the transformation of gender relations result from the continuous interplay of local power relations, market dominance, and unchallenged patrilocal institutions. Through adopting a life course perspective, it challenges too strict a differentiation between migrant and left behind women in existing literature.</p>

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Transitions and Conflicts: Reexamining Impacts of Migration on Young Women’s Status and Gender Practice in Rural Shanxi

Yang

Ren

2020

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“…Gu et al's (2020) exploration of the intention of migrant workers in provinces in China to change their hukou status revealed that those who had migrated to urban cities to find jobs did not have a strong intention to transfer their hukou type to a local urban hukou due to expensive housing and the high criteria for local hukou registration. At the same time, in spite of the great reduction in spatial migration, the conversion of residents' hukou type continues to be selective and restrictive in contemporary China (Seeberg & Luo, 2017). Moreover, according to the data from the National Bureau of Statistics of China, the degree of urbanisation in 2018 was only 43.37% of the total population.…”

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The association between family socioeconomic status and urban–rural and high‐school attainment gaps: A logistic regression analysis of the China Family Panel Studies data

Song

Tan

2022

British Educational Res J

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Decades of research have been conducted on the factors [i.e. family socioeconomic status (SES), urbanrural divide (household registration) and high-school type] associated with higher education selection. However, few studies have disentangled the relationship between each factor and the mechanisms of inequality among these factors in higher education selection. The present study, analysing China Family Panel Studies data (N = 3043), first examined the factors that predicted higher education selection and then ascertained the interplay of family SES, household registration and high-school type. The two major findings were: (1) family SES and high-school type(key/non-key schools) were positively associated with the predicted probability of students' access to higher education and elite universities, while household registration (the urban-rural divide, hukou) was only associated with the predicted probability of students' access to higher education; and (2) either urban or rural students and either key or non-key school students from socioeconomically advantaged families had a higher probability of access to both higher Funding informationNone.

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“…For example, Beiser and Collomb (1981) had pointed out the need to acknowledge the ways in which individual mental health outcomes for urban migrants are inevitably modified by social contingencies, including spiritual or religious influences and “personal assets which individuals bring with them.” Such assets might include “skills such as literacy and the ability to integrate elements of the old and new cultures”. More recently, Seeberg and Luo (2017) insist that a more capability based, rather than deficit based, approach to the mental health of migrants would have the benefit of being more holistic and more female-centric.…”

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Resilience, mental health and urban migrants: a narrative review

Coope

Barrett

Brown

et al. 2020

IJMHSC

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a narrative review of the literature on mental health resilience and other positive mental health capacities of urban and internal migrants. Design/methodology/approach The methodology for this narrative review included a search of articles published up to 2017. The abstracts were screened and relevant articles studied and discussed. Literature on the particular mental health challenges of urban migrants in India was also studied. References found in the literature relating to neurourbanism were also followed up to explore broader historical and conceptual contexts. Findings Several key sources and resources for mental health resilience were identified – including familial and community networks and individual hope or optimism. Nevertheless, much of the literature tends to focus at the level of the individual person, even though ecological systems theory would suggest that mental health resilience is better understood as multi-layered, i.e. relevant to, and impacted by, communities and broader societal and environmental contexts. Originality/value This paper provides insight into an aspect of migrant mental health that has tended to be overlooked hitherto: the mental health resilience and positive mental health capacities of urban migrants. This is particularly relevant where professional “expert” mental health provision for internal migrant communities is absent or unaffordable. Previous work has tended to focus predominantly on mental health risk factors, despite growing awareness that focusing on risk factors along can lead to an over-reliance on top-down expert-led interventions and overlook positive capacities for mental health that are sometimes possessed by individuals and their communities.

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Young Women Rural Migrant Workers in China’s West: Benefits of Schooling?

Cited by 7 publications

References 46 publications

Transitions and Conflicts: Reexamining Impacts of Migration on Young Women’s Status and Gender Practice in Rural Shanxi

Transitions and Conflicts: Reexamining Impacts of Migration on Young Women’s Status and Gender Practice in Rural Shanxi

The association between family socioeconomic status and urban–rural and high‐school attainment gaps: A logistic regression analysis of the China Family Panel Studies data

Resilience, mental health and urban migrants: a narrative review

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