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  1. 1. Anti-Human Trafficking Efforts in Hong Kong

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Lunds universitet/Pedagogik; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Global Studies

    Author : Julia Guse; [2019]
    Keywords : Hong Kong; anti- human trafficking; female migrant domestic workers; civil society actors; agency; empowerment; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This study investigates how civil society actors contribute to anti-human trafficking efforts in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), China, hereinafter referred to as Hong Kong. Thereby, the direct and indirect roles of NGOs and migrant domestic workers community leaders in such efforts are identified. READ MORE

  3. 2. ‘’We are the Floating Ones, you know.’’ Male Migrant Workers and Family Transformation in China

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Roos van der Meijden; [2018]
    Keywords : rural-to-urban migration; family dynamics; masculinity; male migrant construction workers; low-status; manhood; compromises; patriarchal elements.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis explores whether and how rural-to-urban migration alters the Chinese migrant family in the case of divided rural households of 10 male migrant workers. The study relied on in-depth semi-structured interviews with married men, who are fathers, husbands and sons, and who are currently working on construction sites in Beijing. READ MORE

  4. 3. Research on the situation of deaf-mute Children of Migrant Workers in Guiyang, China

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för socialt arbete och psykologi

    Author : LUO YEHONG; [2016]
    Keywords : Deaf-mute children; migrant workers; poverty; bullying; Bronfenbrenner s ecological system theory; working conditions;

    Abstract : This report is the outcome of a Field Study project. The aim of the study was to findout how the floating deaf-mute children of migrant workers experience psychologicalproblems in Guiyang, China. Bronfenbrenner’s ecological system theory was used asa theoretical frame. READ MORE

  5. 4. China's rural migrant workers and the household registration system: A case study of the effects of the Shanghai Hukou system reforms in a citizenship perspective

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Socialhögskolan

    Author : Jenny Xu Boman; [2014]
    Keywords : rural migrant workers; Hukou system reform; legal status; exclusion; citizenship; Science General;

    Abstract : Since a series of economic reforms were introduced in China at the end of the 1970s, large numbers of rural people have flooded into urban areas to find employment but were excluded from the urban society in different ways. One important factor was associated with the Chinese household registration system. READ MORE

  6. 5. Equalization of Basic Health and Family Planning Services? Chinese migrant workers as a social risk

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Carin Graminius; [2014]
    Keywords : migrant workers; China; citizenship; basic health services; governmentality.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The aim of this research is to explore how equalization of health is envisioned in a Chinese new policy regarding the equalization of basic health care for Chinese migrant workers in order to understand its material effects on the targeted population in terms of citizenship rights and modes of governing. The purpose is furthermore to see whether migrant workers share the health needs and values promoted in the policy, and to determine what it implies in terms of modes of governing. READ MORE