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Women Migrants in Southern China and Taiwan

This book, based on extensive original research, explores the lives, the migratory experiences, and the social, economic, and emotional practices of Chinese migrant women during their migrations and mobilities in China, from China to Taiwan, from Taiwan to China and in between the two countries. It illustrates how women on the move experience social contempt, misrecognition and economic marginalisation; how women migrants seek autonomy, economic independence, upward social mobility and modernity, but discover the Chinese inegalitarian social order and labour regimes which produce obstacles and impede their ambitions; and how old and new forms of subalternity are re-produced. Overall, the book emphasises what it feels like for the women migrants as they negotiate their way between subalternity and resistance at the crossroad, between subordinated labour and independent, digital entrepreneurship, and between an inegalitarian labour market and new, online opportunities for business and commerce.

Beatrice Zani is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of East-Asian Studies, McGill University, Montreal (Canada). She is also research associate at TRIANGLE, Ecole Normale Suprieure of Lyon (France) and at the European Research Centre on Contemporary Taiwan (University of Tbingen).

China Policy Series

Series Editor: Zheng Yongnian, Advanced Institute of Global and Contemporary China Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)

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Sharp Power and its Discontents

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59.The Chinese Communist Party in Action

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60.Development and Poverty Reduction

A Global Comparative Perspective

Edited by Zheng Yongnian and Jiwei Qian

61.Designing Emergency Management

China's Post-SARS Experience, 2003-2012

Wee-Kiat Lim

62.China's Environmental Foreign Relations

Heidi Wang-Kaeding

63.The Decline of the Western-Centric World and the Emerging New Global Order

Contending Views

Edited by Yun-han Chu and Yongnian Zheng

64.China's Provinces and the Belt and Road Initiative

Dominik Mierzejewski

65.Women Migrants in Southern China and Taiwan

Mobilities, Digital Economies and Emotions

Beatrice Zani

For more information about this series, please visit https://www.routledge.com/China-Policy-Series/book-series/SECPS

First published 2022

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ISBN: [978-0-367-68383-2] (hbk)

ISBN: [978-0-367-68384-9] (pbk)

ISBN: [978-1-003-13729-0] (ebk)

DOI: 10.4324/9781003137290

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To my Chinese jiemei in China and in Taiwan; to my transnational families

Contents

1. PART 1
   On the move
   1. Introduction
   2. 1Becoming dagong mei: Modernity and urban imaginaries
      1. In the village: Topography of rural life
      2. Genealogy of migrations
      3. Three wishes
      4. Between subjectivation and subjection
      5. Taking the road
   3. 2Geographies of migrations and globalised labour regimes
      1. The promised land
      2. The hukou system and urban hierarchies
      3. A culture of migration
      4. Local networks
      5. Entering the factory
      6. The labour regime
      7. The fabrics of the bra
      8. Jiemei: Being sisters
      9. From the iron rice bowl to Starbucks coffee
   4. 3Should I stay or should I go?
      1. When you are born dagong mei , you remain a dagong mei
      2. Injunction to marriage
      3. Matchmaking and meipo
      4. The identikit of the taishang
      5. Global cities, transnational encounters
      6. Cross-border marriage
      7. A new departure: Taiwan
2. PART 2
   Connectedness
   1. Introduction
   2. 4Trapped in migration
      1. From mobility to immobilisation
      2. The politics of imposed identity
      3. From productive to reproductive labour
      4. Inclusion and exclusion in the labour market
      5. The waltz of employments
   3. 5Affections, social ties, and digital worlds
      1. Dancing with affects
      2. A transnationalisation of emotions
      3. The lingerie shop: Performing proximity
      4. Digital platforms for reciprocity
      5. Online choreographies of affections
      6. Shall WeChat?
      7. Emotional communities
      8. The brothel and the laundry
      9. New rhetorics of home
   4. 6E-entrepreneurship and globalisation
      1. Electronic and emotional commerce
      2. Emotional commodities
      3. Cantonese changfen in Danshui
      4. From dagong to paodanbang
      5. Connected entrepreneurs
      6. Collective daigou
      7. A borderland?
      8. Contested commodities
      9. Contesting markets, transgressing borders
      10. Beauty centres, Buddhist temples, cosmetics, and salamanders
      11. Emotional petit capitalism
      12. Multipolar economies
      13. A secret garage
      14. The multiple shapes of globalisation
3. PART 3
   In-betweenness
   1. Introduction
   2. 7Re-migration biographies and geographies
      1. Beyond divorce
      2. No place back home
      3. Back to the city
   3. 8Here and there
      1. We re-chat
      2. New laobanniang
      3. Transnational flexible citizenship
   4. 9Cosmopolitanism and cross-border existences
      1. On the road again

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