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Lamb Buddha's migrant workers: self-assertion on China's urban fringe
Lamb Buddha's Wanderarbeitnehmer: Selbstbehauptung in einem chinesischen Vorort
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Abstract This paper presents an analysis of the everyday practices of individuality among the migrant workers with whom I worked at 'Lamb Buddha', a hotpot restaurant in Anshan City, Liaoning Province, during the summer of 2007. The majority of the data comes from four young men, meaning that the analysis co... mehr
This paper presents an analysis of the everyday practices of individuality among the migrant workers with whom I worked at 'Lamb Buddha', a hotpot restaurant in Anshan City, Liaoning Province, during the summer of 2007. The majority of the data comes from four young men, meaning that the analysis complements extant studies of Chinese female migrant workers by allowing male-gendered inflections of discourse prominence. The paper examines the internal structure of 'symbolic boundaries' drawn and managed in judgements, positioning statements, and so forth, attempting to regress the modalities by which these migrants assert themselves, thus showing how individuality arises from a discursive environment structured by relation to similar peers and distinctly different others.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
kulturelle Faktoren; Stadt; Arbeitsmigration; Konsum; China; Stadtbevölkerung; Individuum; Wanderarbeitnehmer; Gastgewerbe; Landbevölkerung; Identität; Lebensbedingungen; soziale Klasse; Distinktion; Alltag; Arbeitsplatz; Individualität; Stadt-Land-Beziehung
Klassifikation
Entwicklungsländersoziologie, Entwicklungssoziologie
Migration
Methode
empirisch-qualitativ; empirisch
Freie Schlagwörter
Sociology; anthropology; individuals; identity; rural population; migrant workers; consumption; boundary; distinction; North-East; Liaoning Province; Anshan City; Contemporary; Qualitative Data
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2010
Seitenangabe
S. 3-37
Zeitschriftentitel
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 39 (2010) 2
ISSN
1868-4874
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung