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China

Precarious mobility: Chinese sex workers in the gig economy

October 23, 2019 0

Image Credit: Shanghai, Prostitutes in back alleys by Lei Han/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. By Yeon Jung Yu. Over the course of twenty-seven months of field research…

China

Migrant workers in the digital market: China’s platform economy

August 13, 2019 0

Written by Hong Yu Liu. Image Credit: Image provided by the author. In 2015, the Premier of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Li Keqiang…

China

Redeeming China’s sweatshops: Christianity and migrant factory workers in Shenzhen

July 31, 2019 2

Written by Quan Gao. Image Credit: Foxlink factory China by Chris/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC 2.0. It has been nine years since the Foxconn suicide event in 2010, when…

Culture and Society

Pampering London with Pinoy care

January 11, 2019 0

Written by Aileen Macalintal. Patricia ‘Patchot’ Manuel, 33, has just finished her 12-hour nursing duty at an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for babies. Over dinner…

China

Social Image Construction and the Olympic Civilisation Process at Beijing’s 2008 Olympics

February 8, 2018 1

Written by Anne-Marie Broudehoux. Beijing 2008 provides a fascinating incursion into the realm of Olympic-driven social image construction. For Beijing Olympic organisers and China’s national…

China

Resistance through Accommodation: the migrant worker NGOs’ strategy of transforming citizenship in China

July 5, 2017 0

Written by Gosia Jakimów. With the sentencing of some prominent labour NGO activists in September 2016 to suspended prison terms, the precarious position of these…

ASEAN

Indonesia, the Philippines, Migrant Workers, and Drugs

June 30, 2017 0

Written by Linda Quayle. Indonesia and the Philippines share much more than a convoluted archipelagic geography. In the context of the community-building plans put forward…

China

Split Households and Migration Policies in China

April 26, 2017 0

Written by C. Cindy Fan. The documentary “Last Train Home,” shown in many college classes on China, opens with a husband and a wife stranded…

China

Outdated ‘urban passports’ still rule the lives of China’s rural citizens

February 2, 2017 0

Written by Andreas Fulda. In recent years, China has gained a global reputation for its juggernaut economy and breathtaking social change. Yet beneath this shining…

China

Industrial Action and Pension Worries: Why workers strike

October 24, 2016 0

Written by Stefan Schmalz and Brandon Sommer. In April 2014 more than 40,000 workers staged a walkout at the shoe producer Yue Yuen (YY) in Dongguan, which…

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