Intimacy As a Lens on Work and Migration: Experiences of Ethnic Performers in Southwest China (Global Migration and Social Change) - Hardcover

Buch 25 von 35: Global Migration and Social Change

Mao, Jingyu

 
9781529225853: Intimacy As a Lens on Work and Migration: Experiences of Ethnic Performers in Southwest China (Global Migration and Social Change)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 152922585X ISBN 13: 9781529225853
Verlag: Bristol University Press, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

This book explores the experiences of ethnic performers in a small Chinese city, aiming to better understand their work and migration journeys. Their unique position as service workers who have migrated within the same province provides valuable insights into the intersection of social inequalities related to the rural-urban divide, ethnicity and gender in contemporary China. Introducing the concept of ‘intimacy as a lens’, the author examines intimate negotiations involving emotions, sense of self and relationships as a way of understanding wider social inequalities.

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, the book reveals the bordering mechanisms encountered by performers in their work as they navigate between rural and urban environments, as well as between ethnic minority and Han identities. Emphasising the intimate and personal nature of these encounters, the book argues that they can help inform understanding of broader social issues.

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Jingyu Mao is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh.

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Verlag
Bristol University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
152922585X
ISBN 13 
9781529225853
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
152
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