Yunhui Ye POLI 512 Final Paper March 2023 Homosocial Community of Care and Communicative Empowerment: Agency of Migrant Domestic Workers in China Introduction This article analyzes the agency rather than the hardship and sacrifices of migrant domestic workers generated in the context of China’s rural-urban migration, using the case of Beijing Hongyan Social Work Service Center (Beijing Hongyan), a. [...] Both WeChat official accounts are hosted by Beijing Hongyan but have different focuses, with the former emphasizing the perspective of the organization and the latter functioning more as a platform for domestic migrant workers to share their experiences and thoughts. [...] In the lyrics, migrant domestic workers utilize descriptive and expressive words to illustrate different aspects of their life experiences, including conflicting motherhood responsibilities of their own children and employers’ children, the wide rural-urban gap in children’s education and development, the significance of care work in society as a combination of physical labor (with hands) and emot. [...] The agency of migrant domestic workers is also limited by the unbalanced relationship between the NGO and workers since the internal governance of Beijing Hongyan is not rooted in migrant domestic workers themselves. [...] Although these creative strategies of the agency have not led to policy changes, the care practices and sisterhood bonds provide crucial social support networks for migrant domestic workers to adapt to displaced urban life and challenge the mainstream stigmatized image of migrant domestic workers by reaffirming the importance of care work and domestic workers.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction 1
- Beijing Hongyan Shegong 3
- Fuwu Zhongxin Hongyan Ming Jiujiu 3
- Beijing Hongyan Social Work Service Center 3
- Baishou Chengjia 4
- Home to Swan Geese and Fictive Kinship 5
- Hongyan Zhi Jia 5
- Communicative Empowerment through Public Expressions 9
- Migrant Domestic Workers Agency 13
- Conclusion 15
- References 16
- Dixiashi gaizao jinzhan Ganxie gewei de zhichi Basement 16
- Beijing Hongyan 2018 nian niandu xinxi gongkai Beijing 16
- Hongyan 2018 Annual Information Update. 16
- Baishouchengjia shiqiwan ren zaixian guankan zhequn 16
- Dang shenti chengwei biaoda de gongju Jiazhenggong 16
- Community Development Journal 48 16
- Economic and 17
- Industrial Democracy 33 17
- Critical Asian Studies 49 17
- Ethiopian Migrant Domestic Workers Migrant Agency and Social 17
- Change 17
- The China 17
- Quarterly 218 17
- The Labor of Care Filipina Migrants and Transnational 17
- Families in the Digital Age 17
- Gender 17
- Society 32 17
- Funü yanjiu luncong 17
- Chinas embedded activism 17
- Ethnography 10 17
- Ta fuwu zheyang yiqun funü limian keneng cangzhe lingyige fanyusu 18
- She serves this group of women one of them could be Fan Yusu 18
- Communication yearbook 27 18
- Chinas 35M Domestic Workers Silent No More 18
- Baishouchengjia Wei jiazhenggong ban yichang yanjiang 18
- Hundreds of hands supporting families Conducting a speech contest for domestic 18
- Beijing bushi wode jia dan wo qingxing bu gudu Beijing 18
- Feminist Media Studies 18
- Gender work and migration 18
- Gender Place Culture 15 19
- Jiangsu shehui kexue 3 19
- Asian Journal of German and European Studies 3 19
- Care Activism Migrant Domestic Workers Movement-Building 19
- Communication Culture and Critique 11 19
- Yueping shengming xiangyu jiazhenggongmen de yinyue 19
- Shengming xiangyu shinian jiazhenggong zhizuole zijide diyizhang 19
