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Zigang, Wang. "Empresarios chinos en España. Transnacionalismo e impacto de la iniciativa “Belt and Road”." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/666771.
Full textSiendo el colectivo asiático con mayor población en España, los inmigrantes chinos participan activamente en la economía nacional desde hace varias décadas y poseen un gran potencial económico futuro, dado que una de sus características más sobresalientes es la iniciativa empresarial de sus miembros diversificada en cada vez más sectores económicos conforme pasa el tiempo y aumenta el volumen de su población. De acuerdo con estudios previos, en las distintas comunidades de la diáspora china y en sus actividades económicas, habitualmente aparecen manifestaciones de transnacionalismo: los flujos de capital, fuerza de trabajo, información, cruzan constantemente las fronteras de los Estados-nación a escala tanto intra-regional como inter-regional, y este fenómeno no sólo contribuye el crecimiento de la Inversión Extranjera Directa (IED) de China en España sino también a la riqueza económica del Estado español. Particularmente en los últimos dos años, bajo el contexto de la iniciativa Belt and Road (B&R), que es una nueva estrategia de economía exterior de China planeada el año 2013 con el fin de fomentar los intercambios económicos entre China, Asia Central y el continente europeo, los negocios transnacionales de los empresarios chinos en España podrían tener acceso a nuevas oportunidades de desarrollo. Por lo tanto, y a pesar de los trabajos ya realizados, es necesario investigar los negocios transnacionales y la reciente evolución de los empresarios chinos en España para actualizar sus características y determinar el impacto presente y futuro de la iniciativa Belt and Road sobre la economía de los chinos en España y su participación en la economía de ambos países.
As the Asian community with the largest population in Spain, Chinese immigrants are actively involved in the national economy for decades and have a great future economic potential, as one of its most outstanding features is the entrepreneurship of its diverse members increasingly most economic sectors as time passes and increases the volume of its population. According to previous studies, in different communities of the Chinese diaspora and their economic activities, usually they appear manifestations of transnationalism: flows of capital, labor, information, constantly crossing borders of nation-states to scale both intra- -regional as inter-regional, and this phenomenon not only helps the growth of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in China in Spain but also to the economic wealth of the Spanish State. Particularly in the last two years, under the context of the Belt and Road Initiative (B & R), which is a new strategy of foreign trade of China planned by 2013 in order to promote economic exchanges between China, Central Asia and the continent European, transnational business of Chinese entrepreneurs in Spain could have access to new development opportunities. Therefore, despite the work already done, you need to investigate transnational business and the recent evolution of Chinese entrepreneurs in Spain to upgrade its characteristics and determine the present and future impact of the Belt and Road Initiative on economy Chinese in Spain and their participation in the economy of both countries.
Liu, Yuqi. "Subjective wellbeing of internal migrants in Chinese cities." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2018. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10054981/.
Full textCen, Zhiyu, and 岑知宇. "Chinese heritage language teaching for return migrants inHong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B50177345.
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Chen, Shuhua. "'Homeawayness' : experiencing moments of home among Chinese labour migrants." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15594.
Full textZhang, He. "Self-representation of Chinese Migrants Using Digital Storytelling for Social inclusion." Thesis, Curtin University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/69325.
Full textXu, Yang. "Les migrants chinois en Afrique : Etudes des relations et interactions avec le Nigéria." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015BORD0463.
Full textThe rising influence of China in Africa is often considered as the mere expression of the will theChinese state. The role of migrants and Diasporas contributes decisively to the dynamism of theseinteractions. This is notably the case of the Chinese in Nigeria. Between China and Nigeria, inter-staterelations carry little significance, unlike the interactions associated with the presence of Chinesemigrants and entrepreneurs. The Chinese communities are solidly anchored in the Nigerian economicissue, and they create a momentum that combines business with politics. The thesis highlights anddiscusses, through observer-participant observations and interviews (both formally and informallyconducted) the impulse given by an 'economic Diaspora' that remains largely autonomous vis a visofficial relations. We analyze daily strategies and contrast these with official relations. In doing so, thethesis decrypts the daily strategies and the importance of ordinary individuals and their networks in thedevelopment of a diversity of networks that contribute, in their own way, to deepen Sino-Nigerianinteractions
Beynon, Eleanorah Louise. "Changing places, changing identities : finding one's place in contemporary Chinese urban society." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.249407.
Full textSonderegger, Robi, and n/a. "Patterns of Cultural Adjustment Among Young Former-Yugoslavian and Chinese Migrants To Australia." Griffith University. School of Applied Psychology, 2003. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20030918.153743.
Full textSonderegger, Robi. "Patterns of Cultural Adjustment Among Young Former-Yugoslavian and Chinese Migrants To Australia." Thesis, Griffith University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367828.
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Li, Phoebe Hairong. "A Virtual Chinatown: the diasporic mediasphere of Chinese migrants in New Zealand." Thesis, University of Auckland, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/5561.
Full textMoore, Marketa. "Muddling through: strategies and identities of Chinese migrants in the Czech Republic, 1990-2002." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31244622.
Full textChau, Christiana. "Exploring the Social and Health Needs of Chinese Baby Boomer Migrants in Brisbane, Australia." Thesis, Griffith University, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/391519.
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Polyzos, Iris. "Parcours des migrants et mutations sociospatiales à Athènes : le cas des commerçants chinois à Metaxourgio." Thesis, Poitiers, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014POIT5008/document.
Full textThe relation between migration flows and urban space is experiencing significant recompositions in Athens. Recently arrived migration flows follow new territorialities in the city, thus reshaping its social and urban fabric. Aim of the thesis is to study the Chinese migration as part of those international flows and to further demonstrate the distinct sociospatial trajectories that the latter follow. The central neighborhood of their establishment, located in the west part of the city center, is at the core of our study. The principal question is, on the one hand, to identify the sociospatial characteristics of the neighborhood that allowed their establishment and, on the other hand, to analyze the visible changes of the area of establishment carried out by the Chinese presence. The research combines four methodological approaches: in depth interviews carried out with shopkeepers and inhabitants, both Chinese and non Chinese, survey by questionnaire in neighborhoods' apartment buildings, in situ observation and systematic mapping of the commercial activities and finally, gathering and processing of secondary data, such as population census and business registries. The thesis argues that Chinese migrants, mainly focused on wholesale commercial activities, formed a distinct “Chinese” area in Athens' city center. Next to its dominant economic dimension, the area also constitutes a meeting place for the majority of the Chinese migratory group, which proved to be highly heterogeneous in socioeconomic terms. The thesis further pointed out that this ethnic establishment coexists with the concomitant urban dynamics of the neighborhood. Further on, we showed that they do not only coexist, but they actively contribute to the atypical rehabilitation processes of Metaxourgio area. Their contribution is better understood as an outcome of the local / global scale intertwining. In fact, Chinese migrants, as integral part of a larger diaspora, mobilized transnational social networks in the process of their establishment. This process gave finally rise to a new "pole" of the Chinese diaspora in southern Europe. Following the study's findings, the thesis highlights the necessity of a theoretical shift towards the understanding of migrants' presence and role in the urban space. Contrary to the dominant, discriminating discourses that link migrants' presence to urban decline, this thesis, ultimately, manages to underline the positive effects of Chinese migrants their active role as agents of the urban change
Wong, Heong Fei. "Keeping native culture alive while living between cultures : Burmese-Chinese migrants in Macau." Thesis, University of Macau, 2007. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b1874209.
Full textYang, Beibei. "From China to Zambia| The new Chinese migrants in Africa under global capitalism." Thesis, Southern Methodist University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10111471.
Full textThe Chinese presence in Africa is an increasingly notable phenomenon in the past two decades. Based on the ethnographic data from a fieldwork conducted in Zambia, this dissertation documented the migratory experience of new Chinese migrants to Zambia, which is a non-traditional destination country for this group. The new Chinese migrants include the SME (small and medium sized enterprises) migrants who are self-employed businessmen and the SOE (state-owned enterprises) migrants who are affiliated with large-scale state-owned Chinese companies. This study explores Chinese migrants’ migratory motivation, settlement, life satisfaction, and inter-ethnic social encounter with the local Zambians.
Moreover, this dissertation discusses health and health management strategies among ethnic Chinese migrants in Zambia. By examining the influence of migration processes on Chinese migrants’ health and health management in Zambia, this study further investigates how health inequality amongst Chinese migrants is shaped by structural factors as well as individual agency. My research reveals that despite the existence of various healthcare options, Chinese migrants’ healthcare seeking is restricted by multiple factors including their employment patterns, the availability of their social capital, and even the legality of their immigration status.
This research seeks to expand the existing empirical knowledge of contemporary Chinese migrants in sub-Saharan Africa, a relatively understudied and undertheorized topic in the broader migration literature. It also endeavors to broaden our knowledge of the intersection between migration and health, a subject that is beginning to draw attention within medical anthropology.
Wu, Di. "The everyday life of Chinese migrants in Zambia : emotion, sociality and moral interaction." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2014. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1018/.
Full textSoon, Su-Chuin. "First generation Chinese migrants and their association with the development of Liverpool's Chinatown." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2012. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/12533/.
Full textLo, Shu-Fen (Michelle). "Perceptions of acculturation and social identity construction among three Taiwanese/Chinese migrants in Australia." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2009. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/30418/1/Michelle_Lo_Thesis.pdf.
Full textYao, Liyun. "Highly skilled new Chinese migrants in the UK and the globalisation of China since 1990." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2012. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/highly-skilled-new-chinese-migrants-in-the-uk-and-the-globalisation-of-china-since-1990(2e471aa7-dbce-4610-bcad-6f2e9217c99e).html.
Full textBercean, Alice-Viviana. "Towards a Culturally Adapted Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Depression in Chinese Migrants living in Australia." Thesis, Curtin University, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/75611.
Full textHsieh, Hsin-Chin. "Life on the Move: Women's Migration and Re/making Home in Contemporary Chinese and Sinophone Literature and Film." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19322.
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Yuan, Yan. "A different place in the making : the everyday practices of rural migrants in Chinese urban villages." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2011. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/9011q/a-different-place-in-the-making-the-everyday-practices-of-rural-migrants-in-chinese-urban-villages.
Full textChuang, Ya-Han. "Migrants chinois à Paris : au-delà de l’ « intégration » : la formation politique d’une minorité." Thesis, Paris 4, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA040135.
Full textHow to grasp the notion of “integration” in an era of globalization? To what extent does the word “integration” remain relevant for migrants themselves in “globalized” and “transnational” times? By emphasizing the normative, thereby performative and interactive, characteristic of the concept of “integration”, my dissertation proposes a partial answer to these questions based on the experiences of political mobilization of Chinese migrants in Paris. Drawing on a multi-sited ethnography in several towns in China and neighborhoods in Paris, I reconstitute Chinese migrants’ dynamic processes of integration through collective actions. Arriving in Paris with primarily economic motivations, their involvement in different neighborhoods pushes them to engage in a political process of mobilization while confronting the tacit rules of the French political system. Through their political learning process, they create a minority consciousness with a desire for their political recognition as members of the French political community. However, such a desire does not weaken their feelings of belonging to the Chinese community. The higher their social status is, the more the migrants prove capable of capitalizing on their ethnic origin and use it as a resource to live a “transnational” as well as “translocal” experience. The access to political rights and citizenship is thus unequal within the Chinese community and cannot be measured without crossing ethnic origins and social class positions
Desplain, Aurélia. "Les filles du café : Anthropologie de la fabrique du sujet dagongmei et de son empowerment, Kunming province du Yunnan, Chine." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017BORD0782/document.
Full textLiterally "little sister working for a boss", the term dagongmei refers to the unskilled, unmarried, often coming from rural areas female labor force, migrating out of their villages, sometimes out of their province to find a job. The dagongmei represent a category of precarious workers easily interchangeable produced by China's economic development policies over the past four decades. Since the 1990s, the media coverage of scandals on working conditions of dagong subjects increased in China and internationally, calling on companies to rethink their social role. On the other hand, considering the socio-economic and political inequalities that determine the current paths of Chinese women, the government adopts a positioning that is resolutely in favor of women's empowerment. This thesis focuses on a group of young women from rural villages in Yunnan province who are employed in Kunming in a foreign-owned enterprise that defines itself as socially responsible and empowering its employees. If the project of modernity and globality of China has shaped new subjects-workers dagongmei and dagongzai, by the transformation of bodies of rural migrants into bodies of industrial workers, what subjects dagongmei a socially responsible enterprise project to contribute to produce? How can we think of the processes of individualisation within subaltern groups from a perspective that takes into account the gendered relations?
SAVELIEV, Igor. "The Transition from Immigration Restriction to the Importation of Labor : Recent Migration Patterns and Chinese Migrants in Russia." Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/8804.
Full textWard, Stephen John. "“I trust them when they listen”: The Utilisation of Health Care by Three Asian Ethnicities." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Geography, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8918.
Full textHaught, Heather Michelle. "Effects of Acculturation and Prejudice on Mental and Physical Health Outcomes in Rural Chinese Sojourners." Marietta College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=marhonors1303917417.
Full textWu, Bin. ""Whose culture has capital?": Chinese skilled migrant mothers raising their children in New Zealand." AUT University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/911.
Full textPiza, Douglas de Toledo. "Um pouco da mundialização contada a partir da região da rua 25 de março: migrantes chineses e comércio \"informal\"." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8132/tde-08012013-123615/.
Full textThis research is located in the theme of globalization, specifically of transnational processes related to products and people mobility that makes São Paulos downtown a stage of the globalization from bellow. The research object are the Chinese migrants in the commerce galleries of 25 de Março street region, São Paulo. The research had an exploratory character about what is the role developed by these migrants, based in an ethnography made between 2009 and 2012. We argue that massive arrival of Chinese in the region of 25 de Março street was possible due to a commercial device in which galleries appear as an important sales model, whose proprietors are mainly Chinese migrants that came in the 1950s and 1960s. It is true that significant recent flow of migration occurs at a time of reactivation of the Chinese diaspora around the world in the wake of the effects of Chinese industrialization. However, it was the Chinese of the previous flow that could become importers of products made in China, which abound in downtown São Paulo markets, partially displacing the supply chain of products which previously passed through Paraguay to imports directly from the Asian country. There are more recently arrived Chinese sellers than importers and owners of galleries, but only the latter two types had a \"transnational condition\" that allowed them to legally open their businesses and, through social networks, connect themselves to the other side of the globe. Therefore they alter the scale of the trade practiced by engendering a new kind of sales: galleries full of Chinese merchants who sell products directly from the Asian country.
Liu, Ziqin. "Les jeunes diplômés chinois à l’épreuve de la précarité. Mobilités, accès à l’emploi et rapport au travail. Le cas des jeunes migrants qualifiés dans les villages-urbains à Pékin." Thesis, Lyon, École normale supérieure, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014ENSL0956/document.
Full textThis thesis is part of the broader issue of the transformation of the labor market in China over the past two decades and the place of young migrant workers in this process. In the context of economic transition, Chine has witnessed many important changes such as the phenomenon of urban labor market segmentation, the rise in unemployment and the massive creation of informal jobs, all leading to increased mobility in the working world, as seen particularly in the phenomenon of mass domestic migration. Migrant working youth – especially university graduates from a rural background (or smaller cities) who move to large cities - are being increasingly relegated to the urban areas of vulnerability (Robert Castel,1995) where different forms of precariousness (especially in terms of employment and housing) overlap and accumulate. China’s strong economic growth has given rise to inequalities that are multiplying and deepening at a dizzying rate. Upward mobility seems broken as feeling of injustice is rising. This migration phenomenon, a simultaneous transformation of the labor market and urban restructuring, is the focus of our study. We shall examine the case of young skilled migrants living in urban villages in Beijing, analytical figures of metamorphosis in progress. This research was conducted between 2011 and 2012 in an urban village in Beijing. The subjects had between 2 and 8 years of professional experience and lived in urban villages in Beijing at the time of the survey. This research is based on empirical data collected and analyzed using various methods. Our fieldwork in China enabled us to distribute180 questionnaires (quantitative data), 60 biographical interviews (qualitative material) as well as an ethnographic observation in an urban village. This study aims to investigate, in terms of careers, the process of professional integration and the experience of migration of graduates by looking at structural factors (employment policy, migration policy, networks, etc.), and the narrative pattern used by young people to relate their journey, in order to highlight the mechanisms that produce inequalities and construct social identities underlying the changes being observed in China. Our study has three objectives. The first is to understand both the different positions and statuses held and the way in which young people interpret their journey from their perspective, the positions they hold and the strategies they adapt. The second objective is to demonstrate how their objective and subjective identities interact and are redefined, as well as how their relationships toward work are formed. Thirdly, the goal is to articulate the issue of professional integration and its relationship to physical space, in a context where mobility is becoming a social norm in both the working world and the management of migration (Hélène Pellerin 2011)
Wang, Hui. "The social economic impact of migration in China : a case study of Chinese female migrants in the hotel industry in Pearl River Delta." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.608645.
Full textDu, Juan. "Entre solidarité et exploitation : Marches ethniques du logement et du travail et insertion urbaine des migrants chinois en banlieue parisienne." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCC038/document.
Full textThis thesis has as its main object of interest the forms of agency manifested in the everyday life of Chinese migrants in disadvantaged situations in France. This is studied through fieldwork conducted in two neighborhoods in Paris suburbs, which received a great number of arrivals “from the bottom”, who began their life as migrants through an undocumented period. Despite a double exclusion in the host society from migration policies and from the market, Chinese immigrants usually manage to pull themselves out. How did they achieve this?By investigating the access to housing and work, two essential domains in the migration experience, this thesis attempts to address this problem with a focus on ethnic markets. In those markets, both interpersonal relationships and community bonds based on ethnicity are mobilized as resources.This thesis aims first to bring to light ethnic markets in housing and work, in order to achieve a better understanding of the mechanisms that enable this ethnic economy to function. Both in scholarly and political perspectives, this thesis emphasizes three essential questions: the emic approach, in which the perspectives of migrants themselves are privileged, the tension between the importance of community resources in the everyday life of Chinese immigrants and their constraints, and finally the false dilemma between community and integration
Wang, Yu Sa. "Cross-border, cross-culture, cross social media-a study of immigrant youth in Macao." Thesis, University of Macau, 2018. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b3952600.
Full textJin, Hong. "Cultural politics in transnationalism migrant Korean Chinese in South Korea /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B37223227.
Full textSheng, Jing. "Chinese migrant children's multiliteracy practices in Britain." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.531730.
Full textJin, Hong, and 金紅. "Cultural politics in transnationalism: migrant Korean Chinese in South Korea." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B37223227.
Full textCui, Ying. "Representations of migrant workers in the Chinese evening newspapers." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/10564.
Full textYim, Ching-ching, and 閻靖靖. "Transnational social spaces and transnationalism: a study on the new Chinese migrant community in Singapore." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B46594401.
Full textShi, Hong. "The Maternity Care Needs of, and Service Provision for, Chinese Migrant Women in Brisbane." Thesis, Griffith University, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366136.
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McIntyre, Nancy. "Ethnic minority migrant Chinese in New Zealand a study into their acculturation and workplace interpersonal conflict experiences : a thesis submitted to Auckland University of Technology in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy (MPhil), 2008." Click here to access this resource online, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/380.
Full textLi, Wenxin. "Chinese internal rural migrant children and their access to compulsory education." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2013. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/8564.
Full textFroissart, Chloé. "Quelle citoyenneté pour les travailleurs migrants en République Populaire de Chine ? : l'expérience de Chengdu." Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007IEPP0032.
Full textThe rise of rural-urban migration triggered by the reintroduction of market forces in China is one of the biggest challenges that the Party-State has to face. The contradiction between economic reforms and the resilience of the socialist administrative system has given birth to a new social category: migrants workers, who appear as second class citizen in the cities of their own country. Mounting claims to citizenship as well as rising social, political and economic contradictions led the Chinese government to emphasize enforcing “legal rights” and to call for equal treatment to be granted to migrant workers and urban residents alike. However, the Party manages to adapt while maintaining a segmented, local and top-down conception of citizenship. Public policies for migrant workers’ integration into urban area maintain the principle of inequality, while also redefining the nature of status and social stratification. The new discourse of the Party about creating a “rule by law” and protecting migrant’s rights has given rise to a struggle for the acknowledgement and the guaranty of civic rights. However, this struggle eventually fails to redefine political membership as universal and to gain more autonomy from the state
Luo, Le. "Making of out-group stereotype : images of migrant laborers in Chinese newspapers." Thesis, University of Macau, 2005. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b1636343.
Full textLiang, Meng. "Seasonal labour migration of Chinese agricultural workers to Kawata village : migrant realities, negotiations, and a collaborative power network." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.709010.
Full textCHOW, Mei Kuen. "To investigate the health status and health promotion activities among Chinese migrant women in Hong Kong." Health Sciences, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/6616.
Full textHong Kong has a population of more than seven million people which since 1995 has been growing by 150 immigrants per day from Mainland China. Although migrants from Mainland China do share some similar cultures with their counterparts in Hong Kong, the concept of health and actions they take to maintain their health are different. This study aims to investigate the association between socio-economic factors, the settlement period since migration and the health status of migrant women from China to Hong Kong and their utilization of health care facilities. This research further aims to investigate any implications for the practice of health promotion and prevention-related activities among these women and compares these results with those of Chinese women in Mainland China. A total of four hundred women between the ages of 20 and 50 years were selected for this study, two hundred women who had migrated from Mainland China to Hong Kong and two hundred women still resident in Mainland China. Participants in China were selected from Guangzhou, Guangdong,Shanghai, and Xiamen, these being the more common areas of origin of the immigrant women in Hong Kong. The two cross-sectional surveys were carried out to collect comparable data on the health status for both the groups, their utilization of health care services, their understanding of health promotion and prevention, and their actual health promotion behaviour. The results show that nearly half of the immigrant women from Mainland China had no further education beyond primary school (51%) and that a greater majority of them were unemployed (84%). A surprising 73% of the migrant women had more than two children despite most belonging in the lowest income group (total family income of below HK$15,000k) per month. While younger migrants were generally shown to be healthier, most immigrant women reported their health as being ‘much worse’ than before migration. The single-most significant predictor for immigrant women’s physical health was the number of children they had, while for women in Mainland China, the significant predictor was age. Regarding stress, among immigrant women having more children and being unemployed were significant predictors of increased stress; while for women in Mainland China living in rented private rooms or units, having a higher number of children, low family income, and living with their extended family were significant predictors. Regarding health service utilization, immigrant women living on public or private estates were significantly more likely to use health care services than those living in temporary housing or shelters; and the more educated immigrant women were, the more they used health care services. For women in Mainland China, the higher the family income and the larger the family household, the more they used health care services. Despite 95% of the immigrant women feeling they could do more to improve their health status, only 22% of them reported having performed health promotion and preventative strategies since relocating to Hong Kong. Being Cantonese-speaking and living in a family household were significant predictors for immigrant women to perform health promotion and preventative activities. Results for participants in Mainland China show that while a smaller number of these women, 85 % felt they could be doing more, 61.5% of them were already performing health promotion and preventative strategies to improve their health status. A significant predictor for women in Mainland China was total family income; the higher the family income, the more health promotion activities were performed. The findings of this study should greatly assist both government and non-government organizations in Hong Kong and elsewhere not only in providing more effective health care services for migrant women from Mainland China but also in informing the public health policies and planning of health care provision.
Yang, Duanyi Ph D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Why don't they complain? : the social determinants of Chinese migrant workers' grievance behaviors." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113950.
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Using survey data from China, I examine how migrant workers respond to violations of labor law in their workplaces. The central puzzle explored is why, given apparent widespread violations, some workers choose not to pursue remedies. I find that workers with shared local identities with their employers are less likely to be exposed to safety and health hazards at work, less likely to have employment contracts, and less likely to interpret problems experienced as a violation of their legal rights. This paper extends the research on grievance behavior by drawing on research from Law and Society and social networks to understand how these subjective interpretation processes and social identities outside of work influence grievance behaviors. While the empirical focus is on China, the theoretical extensions may help explain why workers in other settings fail to express grievances when confronted with workplace violations.
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Mai, Dan T. "Sustaining family life in rural China : reinterpreting filial piety in migrant Chinese families." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8e679650-a857-4f3c-a5c1-770a1bff848e.
Full textTam, Pui Nga. "Who owns my body? : the traumatic narratives of Chinese injured migrant workers and their families in south China /." View abstract or full-text, 2006. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?SOSC%202006%20TAM.
Full textCheng, Li. "Labour surplus economy under transitions = a case study of chinese rural labour mobility = Transições na economia de mão de obra excedente: um estudo de caso da mobilidade da mão de obra rural na China." [s.n.], 2014. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/286402.
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Resumo: Três décadas de reforma econômica e abertura, a China tem vivido uma fase de desenvolvimento de transições econômicas de um sistema planejado para a de um mercado, juntamente com um padrão de desenvolvimento típico dualista. A mobilidade do trabalho de um controle restrito durante o período de pré-reforma a um afrouxamento gradual pós-reforma, juntamente com a melhoria de industrialização e expansão da urbanização, apresentou uma transferência de massa sem precedentes em termos de tempo, espaço, ocupação, indústria e escala. No entanto, a sustentabilidade de tal modelo de desenvolvimento do crescimento econômico altamente determinado pela escala da força de trabalho excedente rural restante. Com a fermentação persistente da generalizada falta de trabalho desde 2004, a diminuição gradual do dividendo demográfico atribuído principalmente à implementação da política de planejamento familiar desde 1980, bem como os atuais crescimentos contínuos dos custos de trabalho e a desaceleração do crescimento econômico, quanto tempo pode durar este modelo de desenvolvimento econômico baseado na transferência de força de trabalho, tornou-se um acalorado debate e agitação no campo acadêmico socioeconômico. Portanto, esta pesquisa adotou uma perspectiva de desenvolvimento econômico, através da análise profunda sobre as famosas teorias de transferência de trabalho rural excedente, estabelecendo o modelo de força de trabalho tripartite como a principal contribuição teórica desta pesquisa, e combinado 35 anos de base de dados da China, fornecer uma situação real da transferência de força de trabalho rural excedente chinês
Abstract: Three decades of the economic reform and opening up, China has experienced a development stage of economic transitions from a planned system to a market one, along with a typical dualistic developmental pattern. Labour mobility from a restrict control during the period of pre-reform to a gradual loosening after the reform, along with the improvement of industrialization and expansion of urbanization, presented an unprecedented mass transfer in terms of time, space, occupation, industry and scale. However, the sustainability of such development model of economic growth highly determined by the scale of the remaining rural surplus labour force. With the persistent fermentation of the wide-spread of labour shortage ever since 2004, the gradual diminishing of the demographic dividend mainly attributed to the implementation of the family planning policy since 1980s, as well as the current continuous growing labour costs and the slow down economic growth, how long can this economic development model based on the transfer of labour force last, became a heated debate and socio-economic hotspots in the academic field. Therefore, this research adopted a development economics perspective, through the profound analysis over the famous theories of rural surplus labour transfer, established a tripartite labour supply model, combined 35 years data base from China, provide an actual situation of Chinese rural surplus labour transfer
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Economia Social e do Trabalho
Mestre em Desenvolvimento Econômico
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