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Hino, Midori. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 190-203). / Chapter Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1. --- Research Problem and Its Background --- p.1 / Research Problem / Background / Chapter 2. --- Theoretical Considerations --- p.9 / Ethnicity and Nationalism / Power Relation of Differences: Regional and Class / State Involution in Urban South China / Chapter 3. --- Methodology --- p.21 / Participant Observation and Interviews / Written Materials and Media Study / Chapter Chapter 2. --- Setting --- p.27 / Chapter 1. --- Historical Background of Foshan --- p.31 / A Long History / Development as a Commercial Town / Post 1949 Period / Chapter 2. --- Reform and Opening: A Rush to Modernization --- p.37 / Economic Achievement and Prosperous Life / Incentive toward High-Tech Industry / Immigration: Intellectuals and Laborers / Chapter Chapter 3. --- Rencai and Migration of Rencai: Its Sociocultural Meaning / Chapter 1. --- What Is Rencai? --- p.46 / Cadre and Rencai: Sociopolitical Aspect / Rencaixue: The Study of Rencai / Zhicheng: A Visible Criterion of Rencai / Popular Notion of Rencai / Economic Development and Rencai / The Commoditization and Marketization of Rencai: Rencai Job Market / Chapter 2. --- The Migration of Rencai into the Pearl River Delta --- p.69 / Who Are They? Why Do They Come? / Why Are They Hired? / What Are They Expected to Do in Foshan? / Chapter Chapter 4. --- Migrant Intellectuals in Foshan: Their Social Position and Individual Perspective / Chapter 1. --- Terminology --- p.79 / Locals / Migrants / Chapter 2. --- The History of Repeated Migration in Foshan --- p.87 / The Late Imperial Period: Migration of Merchants / The PRC Period: Migration of Cadres / The Reform Period: Migration of Intellectuals and Peasants / Chapter 3. --- Stories of Migrant Intellectuals --- p.94 / Aspiration / Action / Evaluation / "Sense of Loss and Sense of ""Cultural Authoritativeness""" / Chapter Chapter 5. --- Different Cultures as Social Resources --- p.117 / Chapter 1. --- Are Migrant Intellectuals Homogeneous? --- p.117 / Chapter 2. --- Interpretations of Cultural Differences --- p.118 / Language Difference / Different Thoughts and Behaviors / "Different Cultural Tastes,or Different ""Cultural Levels""" / Chapter 3. --- Resources Legitimated by the State --- p.161 / Sense of Legitimacy / Chapter Chapter 6. --- Conclusion: Local Culture and Identity in Transition / Chapter 1. --- New Cultural Alternatives in Foshan --- p.167 / "Language Shift: ""Getting Better""" / Life with Books: A Higher Culture? / Chapter 2. --- Reconciliation and Integration: Creating a Common Identity --- p.182 / Local Identity and National Identity / Two Aspects of Reconciliation: Ethnicity and Class / References Cited --- p.190

Abortion has become a common practice in modern China since the implementation of birth limitation policy in the 1950s. In recent decades, the growing prevalence of abortion among young unmarried migrant workers has aroused public concern. Socially, abortion among this group of young women is often seen as a reproductive health problem or anomalous phenomenon that needs to be managed and handled; at the individual level, abortion is singled out as a behavioural misconduct of young women, which signifies their moral failure. However, these indiscreet and injudicious perceptions fail to acknowledge the complexity and structural dynamics behind their choices.While past studies have examined abortion through perspectives including law, morality, policy and reproductive health, or analyzed its impact on macro politics and institutions at a societal level, few of them have looked into the authentic experiences of these women and examined the whole issue from the perspective of interpersonal and gender dynamics. To fill the gap of knowledge, the present study aims at comprehending this distinctive life event of women and reflecting women’s agency. Through conducting intensive ethnographic observation and in-depth interviews with 20 unmarried female migrant workers aged from 17 to 28 years old with diverse background, the underlining forces behind the occurrence of abortion are revealed, such as the influence of state family planning policy, the complex changes of lifestyle under market reform,and the heavy influence of partners and families on the decisions concerning marriage and childbirth. This study also traces the process within which abortion decisions are made, from sexual contacts, contraceptive uses, abortion decision-making,to the negotiation between partners, depicting women’s responses to structural constraints and how their choices are made under the influence of migration. / 人工流產(人流)議題一直是不同社會的關注焦點之一，它不但與婦女生殖健康和心理健康密切相關，同時亦涉及公共衛生及人口政策等領域。在中國，自五十年代計劃生育政策實施以降，人流成為解決意外懷孕的主要方法，近年來，未婚年輕女性的人流現象愈見普遍，當中不少是來自農村到城市打工的未婚流動女性，益發成為研究者關注的現象。有別於過去集中在人流的普遍性及對婦女生理健康的影響的定量研究，本研究以未婚流動女性的角度出發，以其第一身的敘述，理解她們的人流經歷及其在過程中展現的能動性。研究自去年六月進行，與二十位有人流經歷的未婚年輕女性進行深入訪談，以檢視其選擇避孕及決定人流的經過，瞭解她們與親密伴侶及雙方家庭在決定過程中的協調，同時透過觀察其生活環境、工作歷史，以及親密關係的互動方式與權力動態，以釐清政策、市場和人際動態在人流過程中所扮演的角色，及對這些女性的人流經歷所產生的影響。 / Lai, Yuen Shan. / Thesis M.Phil. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2014. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 117-124). / Abstracts also in Chinese. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on 11, October, 2016). / Lai, Yuen Shan. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2003. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Univ., Diss--Ottawa.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Southern California, 2008. / Adviser: Sarah Banet-Weiser. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Title proper from title frame. Also available in printed format.

杜平. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 146-161) / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Du Ping.

This dissertation concentrates on a circular labor migration from the provincial towns of the Kurdish region in southeastern Turkey, to rural areas of western Turkey. Each year, an estimated one and a half million workers migrate west with their families for several months to work in rural jobs such as farm labor, sharecropping, forestation, and charcoal making. Based on a total of sixteen months of ethnographic research between October 2014 and August 2016, following the migrant workers between their hometowns and work sites, this dissertation uses this labor practice as an ethnographic lens to analyze both the socio-political conditions under which this labor practice is shaped, and the material practices through which economic surplus is produced, managed, and distributed. Exploring the everyday life in the hometowns of the migrant workers, it investigates the racialized and regionally-divided class formation in Turkey, which heavily relies on labor migration from the Kurdish region. These power relations are also reproduced in western worksites through racialized and securitized practices of labor discipline and labor control. In this labor regime, the Kurdish family not only fulfills functions of social security and social reproduction, but also directly becomes the unit of production and the social hub through which relations of production are organized. However, the temporary character of this labor practice also allows the Kurdish migrant workers to construct a life in their hometowns that is not entirely determined by the structures of political domination and exploitation but is shaped through kinship, neighborhood politics, and everyday relations of multiple subjectivities to their material surroundings.

This thesis utilises Productivity and Investment Climate Survey (PICS) 2007 data to explore native and immigrant wage determinants and wage differentials in Malaysia. The Oaxaca decomposition analysis is conducted by adapting Oaxaca and Ransom (1994) and Fortin (2008) with quantile regression to identify the non-discriminatory wage structure and the components of the wage differentials along the income distribution, making this as one of the contributions of this thesis. It then further explores the unexplained component of wage differentials by investigating the causes of educational mismatch and the effect of educational mismatch on native and immigrant wages. Findings show that the educational mismatch gives dissimilar effect on native and immigrant wages. Interestingly, the educational mismatch potentially widens the native-immigrant wage differentials. Further, this thesis explores the labour demand-side effect on native and immigrant wages. This thesis applies the dominance and decomposition analyses to identify and decompose the effect of individual and firm characteristics on wage separately. The results suggest that native wage is mostly determined by individual characteristics. On the other hand, firm and regional characteristics mostly determine the immigrant wage levels. This thesis establishes and enhances our understanding on the wage determinants and wage differentials that exist between native and immigrant as well as provides an empirical evidence of the educational mismatch and firm characteristics effects on wages of native and immigrant workers in Malaysia.