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Privileged Daughters? Gendered Mobility among Highly Educated Chinese Female Migrants in the UK

Mengwei Tu Orcid Logo, Kailing Xie

Social Inclusion, Volume: 8, Issue: 2, Pages: 68 - 76

Swansea University Author: Mengwei Tu Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.17645/si.v8i2.2675

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The one-child generation daughters born to middle-class Chinese parents enjoy the privilege of concentrated family resources and the opportunity for education overseas. We focus on the “privileged daughters” who have studied abroad and remained overseas as professionals. Using three cases of post-st...

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Published in: Social Inclusion
ISSN: 2183-2803
Published: Cogitatio 2020
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62431
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Abstract: The one-child generation daughters born to middle-class Chinese parents enjoy the privilege of concentrated family resources and the opportunity for education overseas. We focus on the “privileged daughters” who have studied abroad and remained overseas as professionals. Using three cases of post-student female migrants who were of different ages and at different life stages, we situate their socioeconomic mobility in the context of intergenerational relationships and transnational social space. Drawing on further interview data from the same project we argue that, although the “privileged daughters” have achieved geographical mobility and upward social mobility, through education and a career in a Western country, their life choices remain heavily influenced by their parents in China. Such findings highlight the transnationally transferred gendered burden among the relatively “elite” cohort, thus revealing a more nuanced gendered interpretation of transnational socioeconomic mobility.
Keywords: career trajectory; China; gendered mobility; one-child generation; overseas education
College: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Funders: This article benefits from the National Social Science Fund of China (Grant 18CSH011).
Issue: 2
Start Page: 68
End Page: 76

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