Spatial Mobility of Migrant Workers in Beijing, China

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ran Liu
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Spatial Mobility ◽  
Beijing China

Socio-economic effects of labor migration from small towns of Russia

2016 ◽  
pp. 103-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Mkrtchyan ◽  
Y. Florinskaya
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Spatial Mobility ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
High Labor ◽  
Standardized Interview

The article examines labor migration from small Russian towns: prevalence of the phenomenon, the direction and duration of trips, spheres of employment and earnings of migrants, social and economic benefits of migration for households. The representative surveys of households and migrant-workers by a standardized interview were conducted in four selected towns. Authors draw a conclusion about high labor spatial mobility of the population of small towns and existence of positive effects for migrant’s households and the economy of towns themselves.

Positive academic emotions and psychological resilience among rural-to-urban migrant adolescents in China

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (10) ◽  
pp. 1665-1674 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daoyang Wang ◽  
Mingming Hu ◽  
Xin Yin
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Family Income ◽  
School Type ◽  
Psychological Resilience ◽  
Academic Emotions ◽  
Communication Ability ◽  
Urban Migrant ◽  
Migrant Adolescents ◽  
Beijing China

We explored the relationship between the positive academic emotions of pride, happiness, hopefulness, satisfaction, calmness, and being relaxed, and the factors that influence psychological resilience, including family support, problem-solving ability, self-resilience, sense of purpose, social-communication ability, attitude toward adversity, and ability to mobilize resources. Participants were 763 sons and daughters (339 boys and 424 girls, aged 14–16 years) of rural-to-urban migrant workers in Beijing, China. Results of regression analysis with positive academic emotions as the dependent variable showed that psychological resilience contributed 14.80% (self-resilience, 12.50%; problem-solving ability, 1.60%; ability to mobilize one's resources, 0.70%) to the total of 14.90% of the explained variance in positive academic emotions, and that the influence of sociodemographic variables (gender, age, school type, and family income level) on positive academic emotions was negligible. The results suggest that rural-to-urban migrant adolescents with higher levels of psychological resilience display more positive academic emotions.

scholarly journals Factors associated with health-seeking behavior among migrant workers in Beijing, China

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yingchun Peng ◽  
Wenhu Chang ◽  
Haiqing Zhou ◽  
Hongpu Hu ◽  
Wannian Liang
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Health Seeking ◽  
Health Seeking Behavior ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Seeking Behavior ◽  
Beijing China

Do Nutrition and Health Affect Migrant Workers' Incomes? Some Evidence from Beijing, China

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 105-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shi Zheng ◽  
Zhigang Wang ◽  
Holly Wang ◽  
Shunfeng Song
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Nutrition And Health ◽  
Beijing China

scholarly journals The Geopolitical Aesthetics

Prism ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 170-187
Author(s):  
Calvin Hui
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Cognitive Mapping ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Chinese Film ◽  
The World ◽  
Fredric Jameson ◽  
Contemporary Chinese ◽  
Beijing China ◽  
Female Migrant ◽  
Cultural Theorist

Abstract This article focuses on contemporary Chinese film director Jia Zhangke 賈樟柯 (b. 1970–) and his engagement with what critical/cultural theorist Fredric Jameson (b. 1934- ) calls geopolitical aesthetics or cognitive mapping. Through the county-level city (xiancheng 縣城) perspective, the block (bankuai 板塊) structure, the interplay of real and fictional, and the intertextual and transmedial references, Jia explores the possibilities of representational forms and aspires to map and scan the otherwise unrepresentable totality that is global capitalism in China. In this essay, the author engages with Jia's film Shijie 世界 (The World; 2004) and examines the portrayal of the migrant workers and their performances in the World Park in Beijing, China. Focusing on political economy and social class, he suggests that The World renders visible the dialectic of mobility and immobility of the migrant workers within the context of global capitalism in China. Shifting gears to gender, he explains how the female migrant workers, dressed in lavish and extravagant costumes and performing exotic dances for the tourists in the World Park, can be regarded as a productive site for deciphering the otherwise imperceptible contradictions of globalizing China. In particular, the author analyzes the film's opening sequence to show that the world featured on-screen is located at the disjuncture between reality and fantasy.

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