Abstract
The transition from state socialism to market socialism in Vietnam and China has been characterized by unprecedented rural-urban migration. We argue that this migration is integral rather than incidental to the gendered reproduction of state and society. A review of the emerging literature on trans-local householding explores the process whereby the reflexive engagement of the state and the household remakes rural-urban differentiation in ways that are deeply gendered and classed. As such, state regulation and control of migrants are part of a process of reconfiguring state-society relations in which the production of space and the symbolic valuation of ruralness and urbanness have become a central trope.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 855-879 |
| Number of pages | 25 |
| Journal | The Journal of Peasant Studies |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| Early online date | 1 Aug 2014 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Keywords
- migration
- rural-urban
- householding
- state
- China
- Vietnam