Young Chinese Migrants: Compressed Individual and Global Condition

Laurence Roulleau-Berger, Ph.D. and Habilitation in Sociology, is Research Director at CNRS (France), ENS Lyon, Triangle. She has published numerous articles and more than twenty books, including Post-Western Revolution in Sociology (Brill, 2016), Travail et migration. Jeunesses chinoises à Shanghai et Paris, with Yan Jun (L’Aube, 2017), Post-Western Sociology. From China to Europe, co-edited wiht Li Peilin, (Routledge, 2018)

Preface


Acknowledgements


List of Figures, Maps and Tables


Introduction: Young Chinese Migrants, the Compressed Individual and Global Condition

 1 Compressed Modernity, Time and Space


 2 Chinese Experience and Young Migrants

 2.1 Chinese Experience and Internal Migration


 2.2 Chinese Migration and Transnationalism


 3 Work and “Emotional Capitalism”


 4 Compressed Individual and Inequalities


 5 Compressed Modernity, Subpolitics and Collective Action




1 Chinese Young Migrants, Subalternity and the Compressed Individual

 1 New Urban Boundaries and Migratory Ordeals in China


 2 Young Migrants and Urban Segregation


 3 Labour and Subalternity


 4 Employment and Social Discrimination


 5 Floating Labour, Hegemonic Labour Regimes and Emotions


 6 Social Conflicts, Collective Action and Dormitory Regimes


 7 Multi-Compressed Modernity and Mobility


 8 Compressed mobilities and Subalternity

 8.1 Strong Subalternity


 8.2 Integrative subalternity


 8.3 Weak Subalternity




2 The Fabric of “Heroes” and Emotional Capitalism

 1 Young Migrant Graduates and Employment


 2 Compressed Modernities and Migratory Careers

 2.1 Disaffiliative Mobility and Weak Integration


 2.2 Affiliative Mobility and Strong Integration


 2.3 “Alternative” Mobility and the Distancing of Compressed Modernity


 3 Moral Economies and the Compressed Individual


 4 “Being a Hero” and Restricted Autonomy


 5 Guanxi and Professional Relationships


 6 Socialist Heritage, Compressed Modernities and Work


 7 Compressed Modernity and Resistance to Emotional Capitalism




3 Young Chinese Migrants, Economic Cosmopolitanism and Globalisation

 1 Young Chinese Migrants and Local Cosmopolitanisms


 2 Compressed society, migration and the digital economy


 3 Retail Traders, Entrepreneurs and Workers


 4 Inter-Ethnic Relations, Muslim Solidarity and Discrimination


 5 Transmigration and Economic Assemblages




4 Young Chinese Migrants and World Society

 1 Work, Employment and Young Chinese Graduates in Europe


 2 Ethnic Niches, Violence and Suffering


 3 Chinese Economic Elites and the Cosmopolitan Spirit


 4 Discrimination, Racism and Skills


 5 Ethnic Enclaves and Multiple Affiliations




5 The Compressed Individual and Polygamic Biographies

 1 Social Networks, Spatial Capital and Migratory Circulations


 2 Compressed Individual and Family Governmentality


 3 Polygamic Biographies and the Translation of Resources


 4 Multi-Compressed Modernity and the Spiral of Downward Mobility


 5 Ownership, Maintenance and Loss of Self


 6 Compressed Individual, Re-migration in China and to China




Conclusion


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Index