Introduction: From the "margins" to the "center" -- The subject -- Between "rural idiocy" and "urban modernity" -- Assembling working sisters -- Place -- In and out of place -- The place of desire -- People -- Relationships -- Identifications -- Time -- Narrative, time, and agency -- Appendix 1. List of interlocutors named in the text -- Appendix 2. Map 1. the People's Republic of China -- Map 2. Beijing municipality.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Based on in-depth ethnographic research (using an approach that seeks to understand how migration is experienced by the migrants themselves) a first-hand account of the experiences of women in rural China who joined the vast migration to Beijing and other cities at the end of the twentieth century.
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Title
Rural women in urban China.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Migrant labor-- China.
Migration, Internal-- China.
Rural women-- China-- Economic conditions.
Rural women-- Social conditions.
Rural-urban migration-- China.
Exode rural-- Chine.
Femmes en milieu rural-- Chine-- Conditions économiques.
Femmes en milieu rural-- Chine-- Conditions sociales.