POWRE: Marriage Migration in China: Structure, Agency, and Socialist Transition

本研究将对中国的婚姻迁移过程及其影响因素进行研究。婚姻是该国女性移民的最重要原因，在这个国家，很大一部分女性结婚后会长途跋涉加入丈夫的家庭。本研究将考察宏观层面的结构，如社会文化传统和社会主义制度的遗产，以及微观层面的策略、反应和决策过程，以了解婚姻迁移的起源和性质。这项研究将包括对广东西部和北京南部的两个村庄的人口普查数据进行分析，以及深入的实地调查和访谈。这项研究将考察婚姻是以何种方式进行交易和务实的，男性和女性的不同机会、限制和考虑，促进和鼓励婚姻迁移的社会网络的形成和演变，以及上述因素对女性流动性的影响。我们关于人类迁移的大部分知识来自西方市场经济。但亚洲社会的流动性越来越强，并受制于社会文化和制度传统，这些传统鲜为人知，也很少成为理论的主题。关于中国国内移徙的现有工作主要集中在与工作有关的移徙上，很少区分男女移徙。更好地理解《中国》中的婚姻迁徙，将有助于我们更好地理解人类迁徙的异质性和复杂性。来自这项研究的经验证据将证明将移民理论与性别、文化、社会等级、不平等以及妇女的地位、限制和战略的观点相结合的重要性。这项研究的结果将为社会主义转型与空间和社会过程之间的关系提供见解，并为关于婚姻迁移和世界其他地区女性流动的假设检验提供见解。这项研究将进一步推动范美忠的职业目标，开发新的研究领域和方法，并准备在该行业发挥重要的领导作用。通过这项研究，她将评估性别、妇女和女权主义观点是否应该成为她未来研究议程的核心。她将在使用新的定性方法方面获得经验，如焦点小组访谈，并将评估这些方法是否应构成她未来研究的新方向。这些职业发展可能使她能够从专业的中级晋升到高级，通过国际合作提高她的知名度，并支持她促进教育多样性的目标，包括研究代表性不足的人群和培训代表性不足的学生成为杰出学者。

This research will study the processes and determinants of marriage migration in China. Marriage is the most important reason for female migration in that nation, where large proportions of women move over long distances to join their husbands' households upon marriage. This study will investigate macro-level structures, such as sociocultural traditions and legacies of socialist institutions, and micro-level strategies, responses, and processes of decision making, in order to understand the origins and nature of marriage migration. The research will involve analysis of census-type data, as well as in-depth field surveys and interviews, in two villages in western Guangdong and southern Beijing. The research will examine in what ways marriage is transactional and pragmatic, the varied opportunities, constraints, and considerations of men and women, the formation and evolution of social networks that facilitate and encourage marriage migration, and the implications of the above for women's mobility.Much of our knowledge about human migration is drawn from Western market economies. But Asian societies are increasingly mobile and are subject to sociocultural and institutional traditions that are poorly understood and seldom the subject of theory. Existing work on the internal migration of China focuses primarily on work-related migration and rarely differentiates between the movements of men and women. A better understanding of marriage migration in China will help advance our knowledge about the heterogeneity and complexities of human movements. Empirical evidence from this study will demonstrate the importance of integrating migration theory with perspectives on gender, culture, social hierarchy, inequality, and the status, constraints, and strategies of women. Findings from this study will yield insights for the relationships between socialist transition and spatial and social processes, and for hypothesis testing concerning marriage migration and women's mobility in other parts of the world.This research will further Fan's career goal to develop new research areas and methodologies and to prepare to play major leadership roles in the profession. Through this study, she will evaluate if gender, women and feminist perspectives should be central to her future research agenda. She will gain experience in using new qualitative methods such as focus group interviews, and will assess whether these methodologies should constitute new directions in her future research. These career developments may enable her to advance from middle to senior rank in the profession, increase her visibility through international collaborations, and support her goals of promoting diversity in education including studies of underrepresented populations and training of underrepresented students to become prominent scholars.