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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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Griffiths, Michael Brian

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... view more

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.... view less

Keywords
urban population; labor migration; distinction; rural population; hotel and restaurant trade; consumption; individual; migrant worker; everyday life; social class; cultural factors; city-country relationship; job; identity; town; living conditions; individuality; China

Classification
Sociology of Developing Countries, Developmental Sociology
Migration, Sociology of Migration

Method
qualitative empirical; empirical

Free Keywords
Sociology; anthropology; individuals; identity; rural population; migrant workers; consumption; boundary; distinction; North-East; Liaoning Province; Anshan City; Contemporary; Qualitative Data

Document language
English

Publication Year
2010

Page/Pages
p. 3-37

Journal
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 39 (2010) 2

ISSN
1868-4874

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works


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