Format:
1 Online-Ressource (X, 181 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9789004463080
Series Statement:
Youth in a globalizing world volume 14
Content:
Young Chinese migrants, the compressed individual and global condition -- Chinese young migrants, subalternity and the compressed individual -- The fabric of "heroes" and emotional capitalism -- Young Chinese migrants, economic cosmopolitanism and globalisation -- Young Chinese migrants and world society -- The compressed individual and polygamic biographies.
Content:
"In China, strong economic growth over the past four decades, accelerated urbanisation and multiple inequalities between urban and rural worlds have driven the escalation of internal and international migrations. The internal migration of workers represents a unique phenomenon since the reform and opening of China. Less-qualified young migrants are living in subaltern conditions and young migrant graduates have strongly internalised the idea of being the "heroes" of the new Chinese society in a context of emotional capitalism. But internal and international migrations intersect and intertwine, young internal and international migrants from China produce economic cosmopolitanisms in Chinese society and through top-down, bottom-up and intermediary globalisation. The young Chinese migrant incarnates the Global Individual, what we labeled here as the Compressed Individual"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004462861
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Roulleau-Berger, Laurence, 1956 - Young Chinese migrants Leiden : Brill, 2021 ISBN 9789004462861
Language:
English
Keywords:
China
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Migration
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Globalisierung
DOI:
10.1163/9789004463080
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