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Using intersectionality to explore social inequalities amongst Christian family migrants in China

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Peter Hopkins

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Abstract

In this paper, we explore how an intersectional frame offers new insights into the issue of social inequalities in relation to family migration. We bring research about family migration and intersectionality into conversation with one another by empirically examining the experiences of rural Christian family migrants in Shenzhen, China. We consider how neoliberal labour regimes and the Chinese state’s project of building a secular and modernised state operates through an intersectional process of de-familiarisation that turns rural migrants into gendered, class-based, atomised labouring subjects. We argue that a more nuanced analysis of social inequalities in family migration could usefully focus on the intersectional processes within and among migrant families.

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Author(s): Gao Q, Hopkins P

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: The Geographical Journal

Year: 2022

Volume: 188

Issue: 2

Pages: 177-189

Print publication date: 01/06/2022

Online publication date: 27/10/2021

Acceptance date: 19/10/2021

Date deposited: 24/10/2021

ISSN (print): 0016-7398

ISSN (electronic): 1475-4959

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12422

DOI: 10.1111/geoj.12422

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