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New Masters, New Servants: Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China

New Masters, New Servants: Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China

Yan, Hairong

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AnthropologyImmigration & RefugeesWomen's Studies

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ISBN10: 0822343045
ISBN13: 9780822343042
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Dec 8 2008
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
On March 9, 1996, tens of thousands of readers of a daily newspaper in China's Anhui province saw a photograph of two young women at a local long-distance bus station. Dressed in fashionable new winter coats and carrying luggage printed with Latin letters, the women were returning home from their jobs in one of China's large cities. As the photo caption indicated, the image represented the transformation of migrant women; the women's transformation was signaled by their status as consumers. New Masters, New Servants is an ethnography of class dynamics and the subject formation of migrant domestic workers. Based on her interviews with young women who migrated from China's Anhui province to the city of Beijing to engage in domestic service for middle-class families, as well as interviews with employers, job placement agencies, and government officials, Yan Hairong explores what these migrant workers mean to the families that hire them, to urban economies, to rural provinces such as Anhui, and to the Chinese state. Above all, Yan focuses on the domestic workers' self-conceptions, desires, and struggles.

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