Building urban lives: female migrant workers emotional counter-topographies in China

• Published in: Eurasian geography and economics Vol. 66; no. 4-5; pp. 606 - 635
• Main Authors: Jayne, Mark, Siying, Wu, Chenhui, Wu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 04.07.2025
• Subjects: building-workers; China; counter-topographies; emotions; gender; migration

This paper develops new ontological and epistemological terrain to advance critical understanding of migrants' everyday lives in urban china. More specifically, we highlight the opportunities afforded by pluralist relational theoretical and comparative empirical interrogation of emotions across...