Business Migrant children in China: Identity and Stigma October 16, 2015 0 Written by Mingchao Zhou. Established in the 1950s, the hukou system still controls and regulates the settlement of rural migrants in cities. Children of people…
China The Health of the ‘Left-behind Parents’ October 13, 2015 0 Written by Zhong ZHAO. Statistics in 2012 showed that 194 million Chinese were 60 years old and over, accounting for 14.3% of the total Chinese population. Of…
China Self-employment Activity and Ascension to Urban Citizenship for Rural-to-Urban Migrant Workers in China October 12, 2015 1 Written by Guangjie Ning. By 2013, the total number of rural migrant workers reached 160 million (National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS), 2014). However,…
China Uncertain Encounters: African Migrant Entrepreneurs and Chinese Manufacturers October 7, 2015 0 Written by Nellie Chu. In Guangzhou the arrival of transnational migrant entrepreneurs from countries across Africa has captured the attention of a growing number of…
China China’s migrant worker crisis and the children who are left behind July 16, 2015 1 Written by Samantha Hoffman. China was recently rocked by the suicides of four siblings, aged five to 13, in Cizhu Village, Bijie city, Guizhou province.…
Culture and Society Identities of Migrant worker: From Nongmin Gong (农民工) to Xin Shimin (新市民) June 18, 2015 0 Written by Wei Wang. People’s identity is very much reflected on and constructed by how they are named by others. Internal migrant workers in China…
China “I have an accent”: British Chinese Young People on Learning and Speaking Chinese June 11, 2015 0 Written by Ada Mau. Going to ‘Chinese school’ at the weekend is an experience shared by many young people of Chinese heritage growing up in the…
China Chinese-foreign Marriage in Mainland China February 10, 2014 2 Written by Elaine Jeffreys and Wang Pan. One prominent subset of migration studies concerns marriage. While marriage between citizens of different national jurisdictions is often linked…
Asia IAPS PhD Studentship in History December 16, 2013 0 IAPS is co-funding a PhD studentship in conjunction with the Department of History, within the School of Humanities at the University of Nottingham. We invite…
Asia Riots in Singapore as it struggles to juggle growth and migration December 13, 2013 0 Caryl Thompson writes: Singapore, an affluent city-state, is known for being orderly and conformist. So the riots that took place on the night of the…
