Table of Contents

Introduction: Focusing on Migrant Women, by Tamara Jacka and Arianne M. Gaetano Part 1. Negotiating Identities 1. Filial Daughters, Modern Women: Migrant Domestic Workers in Post-Mao Beijing, by Arianne M. Gaetano 2. From Peasant Women to Bar Hostesses: Gender and Modernity in Post-Mao Dalian, by Tiantian Zheng 3. Indoctrination, Fetishization, and Compassion: Media Constructions of the Migrant Woman, by Wanning Sun Part 2. Seeking a Future 4. Dilemmas of the Heart: Rural Working Women and Their Hopes for the Future, by Louise Beynon 5. Living as Double Outsiders: Migrant Women's Experiences of Marriage in a County-Level City, by Lin Tan and Susan E. Short Part 3. Changing Village Life 6. Out to the City and Back to the Village: The Experiences and Contributions of Rural Women Migrating from Sichuan and Anhui, by C. Cindy Fan 7. The Migration Experiences of Young Women from Four Counties in Sichuan and Anhui, by Binbin Lou, Zhenzhen Zheng, Rachel Connelly, Kenneth D. Roberts 8. The Impact of Labor Migration on the Well-Being and Agency of Rural Chinese Women: Cultural and Economic Contexts and the Life Course, by Rachel Murphy Part 4. Writing Lives 9. Migrant Women's Stories, by Tamara Jacka 10. My Life as a Migrant Worker, by Translations by Tamara Jacka and Song Xianlin Let Bygones Be Bygones / Cui Jingyu The Law Is by My Side / Huang Zhihua Burdened Youth / Mian Xiaohong I Am a Cloud / Pang Hui Looking Back, I Am Proud / Wang Xiangfen Leaving Huaihua Valley: A Sichuan Girl's Own Account of Being a Migrant Worker Working for Myself / Li Jianying Glossary of Chinese Terms References List of Contributors Index

About the Author

Tamara Jacka is Fellow, Gender Relations Center, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. She is the author of Women's Work in Rural China: Change and Continuity in an Era of Reform. She lives in Canberra, Australia. Arianne M. Gaetano is an advanced doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of Southern California. She currently resides in Massachusetts.

Reviews

A welcome addition to the burgeoning literature on international migration...It behooves social scientists in all fields, from anthropology to economics, to pay heed to their message. -- Satyananda J. Gabriel China Review International This book is a fascinating and important study. It should appeal to many readers. -- Hiroko Tomida Rural History The book provides an important service in highlighting the many issues involved in women's rural-to-urban migration. -- Alice Goldstein The China Journal On the Move is an extremely well-researched book... [It] carefully balances the emphasis on agency with accurate descriptions of the women's struggles. -- Paola Voci New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies