Rural Origins, City Lives
10.06.2021 - 10.06.2021
17:00-19:00 (Paris Time)
Venue:
Zoom Webinar
EURICS in partnership with Washington University Press
BOOK PRESENTATION
"Many of the millions of workers streaming in from rural China to jobs at urban factories soon find themselves in new kinds of poverty and oppression. Yet, their individual experiences are far more nuanced than popular narratives might suggest. Rural Origins, City Lives probes long-held assumptions about migrant workers in China. Drawing on fieldwork in Nanjing, Roberta Zavoretti argues that many rural-born urban-dwellers are — contrary to state policy and media portrayals — diverse in their employment, lifestyle, and aspirations. Working and living in the cities, such workers change China’s urban landscape, becoming part of an increasingly diversified and stratified society. Zavoretti finds that—more than thirty years after the Open Door Reform—class formation, not residence status, is key to understanding inequality in contemporary China."
PROGRAM
Speaker: Dr. Roberta Zavoretti (EURICS Fellow, Paris).
Discussants:
Prof. Minh Nguyen (University of Bielefeld, Germany) and Prof. Éric Florence (University of Liège, Belgium).
Q&A Session
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