Traversing Precarity: The Socioeconomic Mobility of Female Migrant Building Workers in China

• Published in: Annals of the American Association of Geographers Vol. 114; no. 7; pp. 1546 - 1567
• Main Authors: Jayne, Mark, Siying, Wu, Chenhui, Wu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington Taylor & Francis Ltd 08.08.2024
• Subjects: Decolonization; Epistemology; Ethnographic research; Factories; Females; Holidays & special occasions; Migrant workers; Migrants; Mobility; Momentum; Resilience; Uncertainty; Workers; Working conditions; China

This article is located at the nexus of three bodies of geographical research. First, we respond to calls for careful and considered engagement with conditions, subjectivities, and experiences of precarity. Second, we contribute to the small but critically rich literature exploring structural organi...