Young Chinese Migrants.
"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...
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| Superior document: | Youth in a Globalizing World |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : BRILL,, 2021. ©2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Youth in a Globalizing World
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (195 pages) |
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| Other title: | Young Chinese Migrants |
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| Summary: | "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"-- |
| ISBN: | 9004463089 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |