Gendering migration in Asia : a case study of Chinese female migrant workers in Singapore by Yang, Wei

“…Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between August 2016 and June 2019 in Singapore, this thesis provides a detailed account of the situations and everyday experiences of low-wage Chinese female migrant workers employed in the manufacturing and service sectors in Singapore. …”
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China's rural land transfer: land institutions, trans-local livelihoods, and agrarian capital by Chen, Xingyan

“…Based on primary data from the two villages, coupled with insights drawn from prior fieldwork in other villages and secondary sources, this thesis reaches the following conclusions: 1) China’s current rural land tenure system which is based on the separation of collective land ownership, individual land contract rights, and marketized land management rights has in the short term, weakened the land bargaining power of peasants, but in the long run, increased the reversibility of land transfers, thereby relieving peasants’ anxiety of permanent land loss. 2) Since the mid-2000s, China has observed the gradual emergence of trans-local livelihoods: rural families organize their lives across multiple locations, spanning both urban and rural regions. …”
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