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

POWRE：中国的婚姻移民：结构、代理和社会主义转型

• 批准号: 0074261
• 负责人: C. Cindy Fan
• 金额: $ 7.5万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-08-01 至 2003-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0074261&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: POWRE; Marriage; Migration; China; Structure

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.

本研究将探讨中国婚姻迁移的过程和决定因素。 在该国，婚姻是妇女移徙的最重要原因，大部分妇女在结婚后长途跋涉，加入丈夫的家庭。 本研究将调查宏观层面的结构，如社会文化传统和社会主义制度的遗产，以及微观层面的战略，反应和决策过程，以了解婚姻移民的起源和性质。 研究将包括对普查类型数据的分析，以及对广东西部和北京南部两个村庄的深入实地调查和访谈。 这项研究将探讨婚姻在哪些方面是交易性的和务实的，男女的不同机会、限制和考虑，促进和鼓励婚姻移民的社交网络的形成和演变，以及上述对妇女流动性的影响。 但亚洲社会越来越移动的，并受制于社会文化和制度传统，这些传统很少被理解，也很少成为理论的主题。 现有关于中国境内移徙的工作主要侧重于与工作有关的移徙，很少区分男子和妇女的流动。 更好地了解中国的婚姻移民将有助于我们进一步了解人类流动的异质性和复杂性。 本研究的经验证据将表明，将移徙理论与性别、文化、社会等级、不平等以及妇女的地位、限制和战略等观点结合起来的重要性。 本研究的结果将有助于深入了解社会主义转型与空间和社会进程之间的关系，并对婚姻迁移和世界其他地区女性流动的假设进行检验。本研究将进一步推进范的职业目标，即开发新的研究领域和方法，并为在该行业中发挥重要领导作用做好准备。 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。 她将获得使用新的定性方法，如焦点小组访谈的经验，并将评估这些方法是否应该构成她未来研究的新方向。 这些职业发展可能使她能够从中级晋升到专业的高级职位，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，包括代表性不足的人口的研究和代表性不足的学生的培训，成为杰出的学者。