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SUMMARY:Unstoppable Transformations: Rural to Urban Migration and the Chin
 ese Patriarchy - Professor Susanne Yuk Ping Choi Chinese University of Hon
 g Kong
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DESCRIPTION:How has migration changed the patriarchal family in post-Socia
 list China? Official figures suggest that there were 220 million rural-to-
 urban migrants in China in 2010. Drawing on census and community survey da
 ta\, ethnography and in-depth interviews with 240 rural-to-urban migrants 
 in South China\, this paper examines the effect of rural-to-urban migratio
 n on family and gender relationships with a specific focus on changes in m
 en and masculinities. The findings show that migration has considerably tr
 ansformed the patriarchal Chinese family. Young and single migrant men are
  thrust into the tension between the persistent influence of rural parents
  in their grown children’s marriage decisions and the increasing cultura
 l legitimacy for individuals in urban centers to pursue love\, romance\, a
 nd sexual autonomy. Married migrant men have found it increasingly difficu
 lt to maintain the traditional dominance and privilege of the husband in t
 he realms of marital decision making and domestic division of labor. Migra
 nt fathers transformed their traditional discipline styles because of thei
 r guilt toward their left-behind children. Migrant men also need to renego
 tiate their traditional obligation as filial sons from afar. The effects o
 f mass internal migration on family lives reveal another side to the stori
 es of China’s sweeping economic reform\, modernization and grand social 
 transformations. \n
LOCATION:The Tower Room\, Selwyn College\,  Grange Road\, Cambridge CB3 9D
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