Maid in China: Gendered Mobilities, Internal Migration, and the Translocal Imagination

内部移民总是重构空间想象，并跨越不同的社会群体。在中国，性别、阶级和权力关系是流动性和地方概念的重要决定因素。通过对“保姆”现象的研究，本项目假设，农村-城市移民的跨地方实践极大地重塑了中国人的空间想象。这个项目将导致一个新的概念的地方和空间，与人的流动和媒体图像的流动带来了生产界面。它还将产生关于妇女、工作和移徙的重要的跨文化观点。研究结果将在一本书《中国女佣》中公布。

Internal migration always restructures the spatial imagination, and variably across different social groups. In China, gender, class and power relations are important determinants of both mobility and concepts of place. Studying the phenomenon of the migrant baomu (the domestic maid), this project hypothsises that the emerging translocal practices of rural-urban migrants have significantly reworked the spatial imagination of the Chinese people. This project will lead to a new conceptualisation of place and space, with the flow of people and the flow of media images brought into productive interface. It will also generate important cross-cultural perspectives on women, work and migration. Research findings will be communicated in a book, Maid in China.