摘要
This paper is part of a comprehensive study of the new mobility in China, with a focus on women who have migrated to the southern city of Guangzhou. In China, as in many other developing countries around the world, women now make up an increasingly large proportion of the total number of migrants. This paper reports on the results of interviews conducted with 67 women migrants currently living in Guangzhou. The urban experiences of the women migrants enable them to realize the importance of education. For the most part, the subjects are aware that their lack of education renders them uncompetitive in the mainstream urban economy, and they are resigned to the fact that they will have to return home eventually because they do not have legal status to stay in the city in question. Their exposure to the city and their newfound emphasis on the importance of education, could work positively to stimulate modernization in their home villages.
This paper is part of a comprehensive study of the new mobility in China, with a focus on women who have migrated to the southern city of Guangzhou. In China, as in many other developing countries around the world, women now make up an increasingly large proportion of the total number of migrants. This paper reports on the results of interviews conducted with 67 women migrants currently living in Guangzhou. The urban experiences of the women migrants enable them to realize the importance of education. For the most part, the subjects are aware that their lack of education renders them uncompetitive in the mainstream urban economy, and they are resigned to the fact that they will have to return home eventually because they do not have legal status to stay in the city in question. Their exposure to the city and their newfound emphasis on the importance of education, could work positively to stimulate modernization in their home villages.
